Spring 2018 Issue

Strategic hires, core labs, and research support programs help boost the research enterprise
Christina Pugliese, now a second-year MD student at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), found herself spending the summer after her first year of medical school in an unlikely place: Gabon, Africa.
With the help of a grant from the Simons Foundation, Kevin Pelphrey, PhD, director of George Washington University’s Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, Carbonell Family Professor in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and professor of pharmacology and physiology, is testing t
Katherine Chretien, MD, assistant dean for student affairs and associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, recently became president-elect of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM).
Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was selected to serve as the associate dean for pediatric academic affairs for SMHS and GW’s
Sally Moody, PhD, chair of the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology and professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, took a six-month sabbatical starting in January 2018 to finish research for a study on the ge
Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) and the University of Georgia (UGA) will soon be able to use big data to answer questions about glycoscience.
On March 16, George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) MD students waited with anticipation to discover where their residency training would begin.
In her new role as associate dean and associate vice president for development and alumni relations at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), Carolyn J.
Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, has been named associate dean for health sciences research at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS).