Press Archive

The Rodham Institute hosted its 2014 Summit to promote health equity. Attendees included leaders from local and national health advocacy organizations, as well as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Clinton Health Matters Initiative Chief Executive Officer Rain Henderson.

Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and scientific director of the Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, published a perspective in Science, calling for researchers to adapt new technologies to research parasitic flatworms.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” is pleased to host the Fourth International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease in Rome, Oct. 23-25.

Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are pleased to announce the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

On Sept. 24-25, Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor of pharmacology and physiology, organized a meeting of myasthenia gravis experts from across the globe at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Epilepsy.com, the largest website worldwide dedicated to epilepsy and seizures, will begin hosting Epilepsy Grand Rounds, a monthly seminar series by the GW Epilepsy Center.

Neal Sikka, M.D., director of the Section of Innovative Practice and associate professor of emergency medicine, helped launch the app HerStory, which provides a platform for women affected by breast cancer and mastectomy to share their stories and give emotional support to other patients.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is now accepting applications to the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medicine Certificate Program for the summer 2015 term.

In a Narrative Matters essay published in Health Affairs, Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and assistant professor of emergency medicine, shares her own experiences to highlight a major issue in the fight to ensure equitable and accessible health care for all: adequate…

Jesse Pines, M.D., M.B.A., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, will speak to health care leaders at an Oct. 8 webinar about changes to the emergency department amid burgeoning health care reform.