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Barbara L. Bass, MD, RESD ’86, FACS, vice president for health affairs, dean of the GW SMHS, and chief executive officer of The GW Medical Faculty Associates, was formally installed as the Walter. A Bloedorn Chair of Administrative Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, May…

The Akman Innovation Fund, created in 2019 in honor of Jeffrey S. Akman, MD ’81, RESD ’85, former dean of GW SMHS, selected its inaugural pair of recipients.

The George Washington University Institute for Spirituality Health received a $3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) in support of a multi-year project to develop a model to grow the field of spiritual care. 

The $50,000 gift will be used to support the growth of the George Washington University (GW) Cutaneous Oncology Program, led by Vishal Patel, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of cutaneous oncology at the GW Cancer Center.

A $1 million gift from Ulvi M. and Reykhan Kasimov seeks to advance development of a new technique that uses RNA transcript levels to identify biomarkers in the blood stream, which can help detect active infections in the body.

The financial burden of medical and health sciences education is significant. Increasing the number of scholarships for GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences students (SMHS) is a top priority.

Philanthropy catalyzes novel research, giving GW investigators crucial opportunities to engage in discovery and innovation, test new concepts, and collect preliminary data.

Akman Innovation Fund awards “venture capital” grants to inaugural cohort.

For more than a century and over four generations, their family has been a part of George Washington University. This year, Jonathan B. Perlin and Donna J. Perlin found a way to celebrate the couple at the very center of that long history.

Endowed health policy fellowship will grow GW’s family medicine specialty and improve health equity throughout the District.