Spring 2017 Issue

SMHS donors provide “gift of life” to kidney patients in December 2016
As one of the world’s pre-eminent autism researchers, Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., has built a reputation that can open the doors to virtually any medical research institution — and the institution would consider itself fortunate to have him.
In all her years conducting research, Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), has had several ideas, but one — a cardiac imaging catheter — is the closest she’s come to traversing the info
Christian Hendrix had just started her first year at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences when she was hit hard by the news: Within a matter of days, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling had been shot and killed by police officers.
In August 2016, members of the George Washington University (GW) Hospital anesthesia team — including Samantha Brackett, who was just one month into her first year of residency — were waiting on standby in the interventional radiology (IR) suite.