Christina Puchalski Wins Humanities Award

Christina Puchalski, M.D. ’94, RESD ’97, founder and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor of medicine at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was one of 10 leaders recognized with the Humanities Award presented at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association on Feb. 27.

Christina Puchalski, M.D. ’94, RESD ’97

The award is given only to those “whose work has advanced the relationship between humanities and palliative care and who [have] employed the discipline of the humanities to improve end-of-life care through community or professional education.”

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