Appointments
Patricia Berg, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Lisa Mustone Alexander, professor of physician assistant studies, and Howard Straker, assistant professor of physician assistant studies and of prevention and community health, were elected to leadership positions of the Physician Assistant Education Association. Both Alexander and…
As a budding neuroscientist, Kevin Pelphrey intended to study how the human brain understands other humans—knowledge for knowledge’s sake, as he described it. And it was mostly so he could play with scanners and analyze “cool-looking” pictures of the brain.
Reamer L. Bushardt, Pharm.D., PA-C, DFAAPA, tenured professor and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's School of Medicine, was named senior associate dean for health sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Michael K. Benedict, PharmD, has been appointed as the associate center director for administration and finance.
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, M.D., director of the GW Cancer Center, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). Sotomayor will start a three-year term on October 23 during the AACI Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Sally A. Moody, Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology and professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, was elected to a two-year term as vice president of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Walter Harris, M.B. A., P.M.P., is joining the school's senior leadership team and will serve as the senior associate dean for administration and operations.
Robert Kaiser, M.D., associate professor of medicine, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Home Care Medicine.
Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology and physiology, was elected as chair of the Hypertension and Microcirculation Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.