Spring 2023 Issue

Determined to help future physicians learn how to help their patients and themselves, Seema P. Kakar, MD, launched culinary medicine education at SMHS in 2017. Recently, Kakar and her husband, Sonny, made a major philanthropic investment establishing the Seva Culinary Medicine Teaching Kitchen Fund…

The warming of the planet has had dire consequences, according to the latest Lancet Countdown, an annual report on climate change impacts on health: spiking rates of heat-related deaths; farther-spreading infectious diseases such as Dengue fever, malaria, and West Nile virus; more lung disease-…

To strengthen the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) research roots, many departments and facilities across the school need to branch out.

In November 2022, the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) selected LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH, to serve as senior associate dean for population health sciences and health equity and professor of medicine, and executive director of the school’s new…

To celebrate its golden anniversary, the GW PA program welcomed students, alumni, staff, and faculty to campus at the end of September for a weekend of celebratory events: social-networking activities, a panel discussion featuring former program directors and alumni, continuing medical education…

At any given time, hundreds of people are actively participating in about a dozen vaccine clinical trials run by the GW School of Medicine and Health Science’s Vaccine Research Unit (VRU). In a span of less than five years, the VRU has become one of the leading sites in the country for vaccine…

It’s been a whirlwind for Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, since she first arrived in Foggy Bottom in March 2022, to lead the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center and serve as associate dean of cancer and professor of medicine at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.