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More than 600 students representing 27 health sciences programs at SMHS strode into Lisner Auditorium for the 2019 Health Sciences Graduation Celebration on May 18.

Students in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences were hooded at the GW Columbian College School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.

After earning a daunting 109 credits over eight consecutive semesters, with 34 weeks of full-time education and training, the members of the DPT Program Class of 2019 gathered with faculty, family, and friends in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre to celebrate their accomplishments.

Jeffrey S. Akman, MD ’81, RESD ’85, vice president for health affairs, Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine, and dean of the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was one of three recipients of the 43rd Annual George Washington Award…

Congrats to the MD program awards winners in the Class of 2019 

A new position paper by lead author Philip J. Candilis, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SMHS, examines principles that should guide the health care profession’s response to physician impairment.

Sanjay B. Maggirwar, PhD, MBA, has been selected to serve as chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW School of Nursing have entered a five-year partnership with Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.  

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Reamer Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA and GW School of Nursing Dean Pamela Jeffries, PhD, RN participated in the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, April 17–18.   

Nazrat Mirza, ScD, associate professor of pediatrics, spoke to NPR for a segment about how physicians can help children suffering with obesity.