Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine
Kathleen Burger, DO, associate professor of neurology, appeared on WUSA9's Off Script on 9 segment to speak about the reasons African American women and minorities have high risk of stroke.
Marilyn Kraus, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology, spoke to The Washington Post for an article about research that tests biomarkers in saliva to diagnose concussions.
Richard Cytowic, MD, clinical professor of neurology, was quoted by The New Yorker in an article about the condition synesthesia.
Alison K. Hall, PhD, associate dean for research workforce development at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and collaborators at the National Institutes of Health, published an article in Academic Medicine exploring the clinician-investigators workforce.
William D. Gaillard, MD, professor of neurology and pediatrics, was quoted by Epilepsy News Today in an article about the use of the anti-seizure medication, Kappra, on children with epilepsy.
Hai Chen, M.D. Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology, spoke with Voice of America about the use of CBD oil as a treatment for epilepsy.
In 2013, Danette Cunningham, 47, was driving her car when she unexpectedly blacked out and crashed. She had no idea what happened, and didn’t drive for four months. After replacing her car, Danette blacked out again while driving.
GW Hospital’s stroke team is among the nation’s leaders in acute care.
Henry Kaminski, M.D. chair of the Department of Neurology and Meta Amalia Neumann Professor, was published as co-author of a New England Journal of Medicine study finding surgery removing the thymus is an effective treatment for myasthenia gravis.