Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

For the first time in its 65-year history, George Washington University’s (GW) Alpha Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (AΩA) announced that this year’s AΩA graduation-week events, the annual AΩA grand rounds lecture and the awards banquet, were “unavoidably canceled,” due to
On the cusp of graduation from medical school, advice to student inductees into the Annual Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (AΩA) at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) was simple: Follow a path that aligns with your mission and passion.
For Mohammed Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD ’99, the scant steps between his seat and the podium at the 63rd Annual Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Banquet and Induction Ceremony on May 17 could not have served a sharper contrast to the distance he covered to make that moment possible.
The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) celebrated one of its own, New York State Commissioner of Health Howard Alan Zucker, MD ’82, LLM, on May 18 at the 62nd Annual Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (AΩA) Awards and Induction Banquet.
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen, M.D., returned to the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences to serve as the Ninth Annual AΩA Visiting Professor May 12.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences celebrated new Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society members, May 13.
Internationally recognized expert on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., returned to GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) May 14 to serve as the 8th Annual Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Visiting Professor.
Seventy-four percent of Americans cannot name a living scientist, 61 percent cannot name an institute where biomedical research is conducted, and just 9 percent of Americans have heard of the National Institutes of Health.
Paige Armstrong, M.D., chief resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was named the 2014 Alpha Omega Alpha Postgraduate Award winner.
The GW Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society welcomed its newest members during graduation weekend.