Community Engagement

The GW Cancer Center unveiled a new state-of-the-art mobile mammography van, known as the GW Mammovan, to provide breast cancer screening to women in the Washington, D.C. region.

First- and second-year MD students participated in Community Service Day this year. The students worked on crafts for organizations that benefit children and animals.

Within 24 hours, Villa Nueva, Guatemala, became home to a new PT clinic thanks to the efforts of 26 volunteers from the nonprofit Move Together and community volunteers.

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences third-year MD students met with Washington, D.C., community members in June as part of the Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity.

In Toaff’s annual event, Brighten Someone’s Day, medical students deliver handmade cards, balloons, and flowers to patients at the George Washington University Hospital.

Family and friends of SMHS medical students attended Day in the Life of a Medical Student on April 1. The event allows the students' families to participate in lectures and hands-on sessions to experience life as a medical student.

The role of youth in their health and the health of their communities was the theme of the 4th Annual Rodham Institute Summit. Community leaders, clinicians and students presenting at the day-long event emphasized how to engage and lift up young people living in underserved areas.

SMHS first- and second-year M.D. program students and doctor of physical therapy students participate in Community Service Day, held Aug. 30.

The GW Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center co-sponsored a health screening and educational outreach event at the Pennsylvania Baptist Church for D.C. residents.

The GW Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center and the GW Transplant Institute provided blood pressure screenings to hundreds of members of the D.C. area community.