Press Archive

WASHINGTON (April 23, 2012) – How do you impact one of modern medicine’s great challenges?  A total of 1,638,910 new cancer cases and 577,190 deaths from cancer are projected to occur in the United States in 2012. 

Congratulations to John van den Anker, M.D., Ph.D, professor of Pediatrics, who was named the Distinguished Researcher of the year for GW.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A three-year Letter of Intent for Collaboration was signed recently between Partner for Surgery (PfS) and The George Washington University (GW), on behalf of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Office of International Medicine Programs.

WASHINGTON (April 2012) –  Anil Dubey, Ph.D., H.C.L.D., professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the  IVF and Andrology Labs at the GW Medical Faculty Associates, is the editor of the

Sterling, VA—Elizabeth Wiley, JD, MPH, a fourth year medical student at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been elected to serve as the national president of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).

Naomi L. C. Luban, M.D., professor of Pediatrics, and Lori Luchtman-Jones, M.D., associate professor of Pediatrics, have secured funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a new pediatric transfusion medicine and hematology…

Congratulations to Donald Karcher, M.D., chair of the Department of Pathology, who was elected as President-Elect of the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC).

Congratulations to the 2012  “Golden Apple” awardees. The Golden Apple awards recognize the contributions of medical school professors who have made significant impacts on the students’ education.

The George Washington University is host to the world’s leaders in the area of research that focuses on Thymosins— small proteins present in many animal tissues that have diverse biological activities

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is proud to report that the Physical Therapy program, which is part of the Health Sciences programs, rose in the US News & World Report rankings from 95th to 51st, putting the program in the 23rd percentile.