Anna Miller
One day, it will all be over, thought Lauren Antognoli when she was 17 years old and undergoing treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma.
One day, her name would be “Lauren,” not “Lauren the cancer patient;” her own hair—not a wig — would be...
The line for free stroke screenings in the Ross Hall courtyard, May 6, provided a snapshot of Washington, D.C.’s eclectic foot traffic. The steady stream of attendees — who added up to 303 by the event’s close — were businesspeople, construction...
At The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), excellence in teaching is not an exception — it’s the rule. And yet, each year, a few professors stand out to their peers and students as the best of the best,...
What do the New York Subway system, the Peace Corps, and GW’s Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service (ISCOPES) have in common?
They are all “things that last,” said Gene "Rusty" Kallenberg, M.D.,...
Just a few decades ago, the connection between neurobiology and cancer biology was suspected, but unspoken.
“Today, it represents one of the most robust interfaces between basic neuroscience and clinical medicine,” said Anthony-Samuel...
The thought first struck what Vinayak Jha, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, calls his “ridiculous nerve.”
Then, it struck his curiosity nerve,...
Since its founding in 2006, the GW HEALing (Healthcare, Education and Active Living) Clinic has helped expand healthcare access to vulnerable populations in Washington D.C. Each week, the after-hours clinic, operated by student volunteers from...
In just a fraction of the 5,100 square feet that used to swell with patient files at the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA), a digital x-ray machine, a nuclear reading room, and the Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center now stand —...
The best way Bert O’Malley, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine, knows how to describe a career in research is by comparing it to a detective’s work. “You collect clues...
Surprisingly, Kofi Essel, a fourth year medical student at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was able to sleep through the night, March 16. But the next morning, when he entered an infectiously...
