Press Archive

Anton N. Sidawy, M.D., M.P.H. ’99, Lewis B. Saltz Chair of the Department of Surgery and professor of surgery, was appointed by the American College of Surgeons to its Board of Regents. 

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, finding effective interventions to address "boarding" have not been adopted in many…

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to support Upward Bound and the Health Education Leadership Program at the Rodham Institute. 

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Health Affairs, finding the most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to…

Stuart Kassan, M.D. '72 received the Paulding Phelps Award at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., and Mary Ottolini, M.D., M.P.H. for their outstanding contributions to graduate medical education. 

Mark S. Zocchi, MPH, senior research associate at the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, was published in the Journal on Quality and Patient Safety for his evaluation of 42 U.S. hospitals to improve emergency department flow. 

Three publications produced in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently received high honors, including platinum and gold prizes, in the 2015 MarCom Awards.

Lauren Kenworthy, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Congratulations to Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., director of the GW Cancer Institute, who was chosen as a Young World Cancer Leader (under 40) by the Union for International Cancer Control.