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The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the creation of the Office of Integrative Medicine and Health within the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Tracy Church, MBA, CPA, will serve as the executive director of development and alumni relations.

A study by Jyoti K. Jaiswal, MSC, PhD, at Children's National and Adam Horn, graduate student at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was published in Science Signaling. The study looks at how mitochondria help repair injured muscles by triggering increased production of reactive oxygen…

The GW Hospital is expanding its robotic services, becoming the first hospital in the world to perform colorectal surgery with the Medrobotics Flex® Robotic System – a robot system designed to navigate the body’s twists and turns. 

GW researcher received an almost $2 million grant to study the body's natural defenses against HIV in order to drive development of better vaccines and therapies.

Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, will serve as chair and professor of the newly re-named Department of Genomics and Precision Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s National Health System.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the results of an international research study conducted with the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine & Health Sciences evaluating the…

Medical and spiritual leaders, including George Washington University (GW) Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) Director Christina Puchalski, MD ’94, FACP, FAAHPM, convened in Rome this spring with the commitment to growing patients’ rights to palliative care worldwide.

Alison K. Hall, PhD, associate dean for research workforce development at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and collaborators at the National Institutes of Health, published an article in Academic Medicine exploring the clinician-investigators workforce.

A research team led by Adam Friedman, MD, associate professor of dermatology at SMHS, has found that topically applied nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles are a viable treatment for deep fungal infections of the skin caused by dermatophytes.