Appointments

Farzad Najam, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been named Division Director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the GW Hospital.

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, will serve as associate dean for international medicine.

Seth Rosenblatt, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a regional coordinator for the American Academy of Family Physicians National Family Medicine Interest Group Network.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Nancy Gaba, M.D.’93, RESD ’97, FACOG, a longtime leader at GW, will serve as the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Roger Mitchell, M.D., RESD ’06, was recently appointed the District’s new Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Vincent C. Gray.

Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS, associate professor of medicine, was named as one of the first board-certified clinical informaticians in the country.

Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was elected to a director-at-large position on the American Academy of…

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of James L. Griffith, M.D., as the Leon M. Yochelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Nixon recently toured the department’s new laboratory space with Dean Akman.

Leslie Bishop Tarver, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was selected for the Summer Medical Student Fellowship Program, supported by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Campaign for America’s Kids.