Features Spring 2023
Last autumn, Washington, D.C., leaders and representatives from Universal Health Services, the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and The GW Medical Faculty Associates, cut the ribbon on the first of two urgent care centers in southeast Washington, D.C., key pieces of…
Each year during reunion weekend — amid the class gatherings, campus tours, endowed lectures, and reunion dinners — several smaller groups of dedicated George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) alumni meet with a larger purpose beyond just reconnecting and…
Wyn Dobbs, a member of the MD Class of 2023 at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), and Shaitalya Sri Vellanki, MD, a second-year internal medicine resident at GW SMHS, are the inaugural recipients of the Akman Innovation Fund — created in honor of…
For more than a century and across four generations, the Perlin family has been a part of George Washington University. In 2022, Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, and Donna J. Perlin, MD, found a way to celebrate the couple at the very center of that long history.
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…