Awards

Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was a co-recipient of the American Heart Associations’ 2015 Excellence Award in Hypertension Research.

Stuart Kassan, M.D. '72 received the Paulding Phelps Award at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded Jeffrey Berger, M.D., M.B.A., and Mary Ottolini, M.D., M.P.H. for their outstanding contributions to graduate medical education. 

Three publications produced in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently received high honors, including platinum and gold prizes, in the 2015 MarCom Awards.

Congratulations to Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., director of the GW Cancer Institute, who was chosen as a Young World Cancer Leader (under 40) by the Union for International Cancer Control. 

Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are pleased to announce the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

When Elad I. Levy, M.D. ’97, M.B.A., FACS, FAHA, was a student at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), his mentors taught him to challenge dogma and to make the world of medical knowledge better than how he found it.

Lindsay Marsh Warren, M.D. ’02, RESD ’06, B.A. ’98, was among the recipients of the 10th annual GW Black Alumni Association’s 2015 IMPACT Award on Sept. 26, 2015. A native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Marsh Warren is a practicing anesthesiologist in the Washington, D.C. area.

The PA program presented awards to two GW alumni and a scholarship to Emily Arcand, PA ’16.

Doctors at the GW Cancer Center were nationally recognized for their cancer care in Newsweek’s Top Cancer Doctors 2015.