Health Sciences

Ellen Goldman, Ed.D. ’05, M.B.A., is now playing dual roles for the George Washington University (GW) as both the associate professor of human and organizational learning at GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development and, more recently, as the assistant dean for faculty and curriculum…

Being “Free From Falls” is something that most of us take for granted on a daily basis; however, for some people, particularly those who have diseases that make it difficult to walk or stay balanced, learning how to avoid a fall is critical.

As a rule, Physician Assistants (PA) are passionate about their profession. They aren’t simply practitioners, they are proponents, eager to extol the virtues of their chosen field.

The 2015 Follies, an annual event of song, dance, and parody by first-, second-, third-, and fourth-year medical students, as well as physical therapy (PT) and physician assistant (PA) students, was a smash on March 27.

Two GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) faculty members, Jacqueline S. Barnett, M.S., assistant professor of Physician Assistant studies, and Ellen F.

Brittne Jackson, M.P.H., fondly remembers Sunday afternoons spent with her grandmother Madeline Jackson, visiting her relatives at the local nursing home. “I vividly remember watching my grandmother with her sisters,” she recalls.

SMHS Opens the Doors on a Major Update and Expansion to Its Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills Center

On Christmas Eve 2013, as children around the world were nestled snug in their beds waiting for Santa Claus, NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins suited up and prepared for an Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) — or spacewalk — to repair the International Space Station’s orbiting outpost

Students and residents presented more than 300 posters at Medicine and Health Research Day. The scope of posters ranged from basic science research to translational science projects.  

Clinical Research and Leadership Professor Shawneequa Callier, J.D., M.A., weighs in on the implications of human genome research