Appointments

Marcia Firmani, PhD, MSPH, was tapped to chair the Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 

George Washington University's Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, director of the newly established comprehensive pulmonary hypertension program, talks about the life-threatening condition in a Q&A.

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences has named David Mendelowitz, PhD, professor of pharmacology and physiology and anesthesiology and critical care, to serve as the interim chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology.

Adam Friedman, MD, has been named interim chair of the GW Department of Dermatology

The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Vishal A. Patel MD, FAAD, FACMS, an accomplished Mohs/Dermatologic surgeon and cutaneous oncologist, has joined the GW Cancer Center. He will serve as the director of the recently established Cutaneous Oncology Program.

Congratulations to Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, visiting assistant professor of clinical research and leadership at SMHS, for being selected to serve on D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Commission on Health Equity.

Howard Straker, MPH, PA-C, assistant professor of physician assistant studies, was elected as president of the Physician Assistant Education Association. 

Rong Li, PhD, will serve as chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 

Harold A. Frazier II, MD, has been tapped to serve as interim associate dean for graduate medical education at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Robert H. Miller, PhD, a neuroscientist, researcher, and administrator in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named the university’s new vice president for research.