Children’s National Health System (Children’s National) honored GW President Steven Knapp, Ph.D., with its prestigious Chairman’s Special Award, which recognizes individuals and organizations for their important associations or shared mission with the hospital.
Knapp, throughout his tenure at GW, has helped to nurture a collaborative relationship, with an emphasis on hands-on training and shared research goals, between Children’s National and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). The SMHS Department of Pediatrics, for example, is housed at Children’s National, where third- and fourth-year SMHS medical students participate in training programs. Other collaborations include a recent $6.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a multidisciplinary team of researchers from both SMHS and Children’s National to study pediatric dysphagia, a feeding and swallowing disorder typically found in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
