Spring 2018 Issue
Tirsit Makonnen, a second-year MD student at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, understands the power of giving back.
Through her nonprofit, Jennifer Wall, PA-C, assistant professor of physician assistant studies, has made a significant impact on patient care in Malawi, where residents are at high risk for burn injuries
The population of Guyana, a small country on South America’s northern coast, stands at around 800,000. The population of the country’s capital, Georgetown, is about 240,000, or 300,000 in the surrounding metro area.
Joshua Woolstenhulme, DPT, PhD, assistant professor of health, human function, and rehabilitation sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, recently received a $130,000 grant from the Cure JM Foundation.
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded more than $2.4 million to a research team led by Colin Young, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), to study how cell stress in the brain co
As the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) reaffirms the importance of diversity, inclusion, and clinical partnerships, Jeffrey S. Akman, MD ’81, RESD ’85, vice president for health affairs, Walter A.
Paul Marvar, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a more than $1.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to study the psychological components of anxiety disorders, such as p
The future of cancer research, in the opinion of Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD, at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), centers on combining immunotherapy with other treatments.
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Dennis Dimitri, MD ’79, vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine Clinical Services at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was recently promoted in his clinical role to professor of family medicine.
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