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Italo M. Brown, MD, MPH, presented the 8th Annual GW SMHS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week Lecture Series, “Advancing the Dream: From Dream to Reality — The Journey Continues,” hosted by the SMHS Office of Diversity and Inclusion, on Jan. 16.

The George Washington University (GW) Academic Medical Enterprise kicked off a yearlong 200th anniversary celebration by honoring faculty and staff achievements during the Bicentennial Recognition event.

GW Professor Mountasser Kadrie, PhD, MHA, FACHE, FHIMSS, FACMPE, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant for the development of a “Hospital Management and Operational Excellence Program” for the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population, to enhance hospital operation management competency for all…

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine at Health Sciences (SMHS) named Scott D. Krugman, MD, as the new Senior Associate Dean for the LifeBridge Health/GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Regional Medical Campus (RMC) at LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital.

Sarah Boutwell, MD, MSPH, will serve as interim director of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the GW Medical Faculty Associates’ Department of Medicine. She began serving as the interim director on Jan. 8, 2024.

Pooja Sodha, MD, offered her take on the top dermatological advancements for 2023 on the Modern Aesthetics podcast.

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivered the keynote address for the Annual Clinical Public Health Summit on HIV.

Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, led by Robert Miller, PhD, the Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor and vice dean of the GW SMHS, discovered that a protein called Snail plays a key role in coordinating the response of brain cells…

A gift from Personalized Medicine Care Diagnostics (PMCDx), an advanced molecular diagnostic testing laboratory, in memory of Manny Velasquez, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at GW SMHS and a long-time nephrologist at the GW MFA, will will support research into the use of precision medicine…

More than 250 SMHS alumni representing MD program classes from 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, and 2018, as well as H Street Society members, returned to campus for the annual Reunion Weekend celebration.