Press Archive

Dr. Jeffrey Bethony and Dr. David Diemert have received a grant to develop and test a novel, low-cost hookworm vaccine to help control human hookworm infection in endemic countries.

Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, was recently published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine for his paper, “Non-Emergency Department (ED) Interventions to Reduce ED Utilization: A Systematic…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce a new educational and research affiliation with the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.

The Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences recently completed its reaccreditation process with the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) and will remain nationally accredited…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Joyce Maring, DPT, Ed.D., has been appointed as the chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences.

Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the division of nephrology and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was the recipient of two prestigious UO-1 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These multi-million dollar studies will…

Urgent Matters, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, announces the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a newly created competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that Vincent Chiappinelli, Ph.D., has been named as the associate vice president for health affairs and associate dean of the SMHS.

Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a $1,973,645 grant from the National Eye Institute to study developmental origins of wakefulness in the cerebral cortex, the region…

The George Washington University Cancer Institute has been awarded a $2.1 million cooperative agreement to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to design and implement a comprehensive technical assistance plan to support CDC-funded Comprehensive Cancer Control programs…