Emergency Medicine
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine, wrote an op-ed for NPR's Shots on a health care system that has emergency room doctors playing detective far more often than it should.
Cathleen Clancy, M.D., co-chief of the Section of Injury Prevention and Toxicology and associate professor of emergency medicine, was quoted in a NPR's Shots post on common drugs that are dangerous for children.
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine, wrote an op-ed for NPR's Shots on how drug addiction can often start in the emergency room with prescription pain killers.
Babak Sarani, M.D., chief of trauma and associate professor of surgery, was interviewed by WTOP about how weather effects the emergency room and how hospitals prepare for inclement weather.
Medical Residents Katie Byrd, M.D., and Grant Barry, M.D., were featured on FOX 5 News for saving a man suffering from a heart attack outside the GW Hospital. Byrd and Barry saw the man as they were coming back from lunch.
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine and director of patient-centered care research, wrote a letter-to-the-editor in response to The New York Times article, "We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer."
Babak Sarani, M.D., chief of trauma and associate professor of surgery, was quoted in the Washington Business Journal's BizBeat article on the GW Hospital being re-verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center.
Babak Sarani, M.D., chief of trauma and acute care surgery and associate professor of surgery, was interviewed for a story on WUSA9 on how to keep safe in the freezing weather.
Congratulations to Jim Scott, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and former dean of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who received the 2013 Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine.
In a report published by the Institute of Medicine, Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation, and co-authors make seven recommendations to provide a road map to enhance the sustainability of emergency preparedness efforts in the United States.