Awards

D. Robert Dufour, MD, received the 2018 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, clinical professor of surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received the 2018 Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons in appreciation of his accomplishments.

SMHS faculty members, Scott Cohen, MD, and Aviva Ellenstein, MD, PhD, were recognized with this year’s prestigious Distinguished Teacher Award.

Nephrology fellows at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences who presented research and received awards at the National Kidney Foundation Fellows Research Forum on June 6.

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.

SMHS recognized graduating medical students with awards at the MD Student Gala.

Class of 2018 Physical Therapy students were celebrated and honored during the SMHS PT Awards ceremony.

GW is expanding its clinical enterprise with a recent contract awarded to the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) by United Medical Center (UMC). The MFA is providing professionals to staff UMC’s adult emergency services, and, in July, will be in charge of its hospitalist services.

For many in the lecture hall during the Marilyn Koering Award ceremony, Marilyn Koering, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a devoted teacher, research scientist, mentor, and patient advocate, was an inspiration.

Laura Doggett, founder and creative director of the documentary project, received the SMHS Daniel S. Prager Award for Opening the Human Spirit.