Caroline Trent-Gurbuz

May 10, 2023
It's the stories that matter, says Shaitalya Vellanki, MD. Once, during medical school in New Orleans, she sat with a woman seeking care at a shelter. The woman had escaped a physically and verbally abusive household to be homeless by choice. What mattered, the woman said, was that being homeless…
May 9, 2023
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…
May 9, 2023
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-…
May 8, 2023
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…
July 29, 2020
Chavon Onumah, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at SMHS, is a champion of diversity and inclusion.
July 29, 2020
Keith Melancon, MD, director of the Transplant Institute at GW Hospital, specializes in difficult and unique transplant cases.
October 31, 2018
The robots, multilimbed and wielding nimble metal fingers, are intricate and imposing. One, the intuitive da Vinci robot, towers over the surgical table, its four hands ready to twist and tilt.
October 31, 2018
SMHS Alumnus “Memo” Sanchez Pairs Medicine with Creativity It’s a phrase that Guillermo “Memo” Sanchez, MSHS ’13, MPH ’13, PA-C, tosses out casually: “Creativity and the hard sciences don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
October 31, 2018
Becoming a doctor — and a mother — had always been part of Kathleen Ogle’s life plan. As it turned out, her path to both goals included detours and roundabouts, divorce, financial struggle, and a devastating miscarriage, but she emerged.
October 31, 2018
Weight loss, as propagated on countless reality television shows, podcasts, and news articles, should be easy: Burn more calories than you ingest.