By Thomas Kohout
“Incorporating the Arts to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Washington, D.C.” brought out community leaders and clinicians to the 6th Annual Rodham Institute Summit.
When Gordon S. Moshman, MD ’78, was accepted to medical school, he thought he might want to be a surgeon. The high costs of a medical education, however, left him looking for alternatives. That change in direction led Moshman to a Public Health...
A host of representatives from throughout the George Washington University (GW) health care community joined GW Cancer Center leadership on Oct. 17 to cut the ribbon on a new multi-disciplinary cancer clinical space in the ground floor of the GW...
At the height of the Fifth International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease at the George Washington University (GW), researchers Luigina Romani, MD, PhD, from the University of Perugia; Enrico Garaci, MD, from the University San...
Many of the 256 GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) MD program alumni and guests on hand for the 2017 Reunion Weekend Sept. 15–17 took time out from reminiscing and exploring the updated facilities to catch up on their alma mater’s...
Area clinicians joined GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) faculty, alumni, and residents to hear Edward “Ted” Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D., present a pair of keynote addresses during the third annual Harry C. Miller Visiting Professorship...
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), when the heart unexpectedly stops beating, can strike anywhere, anytime. While those with a history of heart disease — such as a previous cardiac arrest, coronary artery disease, or arrhythmia — are most at risk,...
Just a few weeks removed from the record-high drawing of the Powerball lottery, a pair of GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) M.D. program Class of 2017 students received substantial prizes of their own: the third annual Primary Care...
The fifth annual Medical Legacy Brunch, a special gathering of incoming first-years and alumni, took place at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. The annual event, which is sponsored by the SMHS Office of Development and Alumni Relations,...
Seventy-four percent of Americans cannot name a living scientist, 61 percent cannot name an institute where biomedical research is conducted, and just 9 percent of Americans have heard of the National Institutes of Health. Those facts, reported...
