Global Health

Ashkan Monfared, M.D., associate professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and his colleagues from Global ENT Outreach, El Centro de los Sentidos and Clinica de Marly, hosted their first ever, two-day Advanced Otology and Temporal Bone Course in mid-April…

Stuart Portnoy, M.D. ’91, RESD '92, taps into clinical and FDA expertise to help Southeast Asian nations implement medical device regulatory regimes.

GW SMHS welcomes president and vice-president of China’s Peking University First Hospital.

E-Med Docs Bruno Petinaux and Anthony Macintyre deploy with USA-1 Urban Search and Rescue to render aid to earthquake survivors in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Hamid Shokoohi, M.D., and Keith Boniface, M.D., headed to Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda to provide ultrasound training for their local counterparts and U.S. volunteers.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR, is revolutionizing heart repair procedures in the way bypass and stents have done decades before.

SMHS students spent the summer gaining experience through internships around the world.

Josh D'Angelo, DPT'13, traveled to Guatemala to treat infants with spina bifida and older adults with neurological disorders.

Kanishka Ratnayaka, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was featured in the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, for his work at the Ugandan Health Institute this week training physicians and performing surgeries.

Before coming to GW, obstetrician Amr Madkour, M.D., volunteered in West Africa with Doctors Without Borders.