Fall 2018 Issue
GW Health Network, the George Washington University’s (GW) new accountable care organization (ACO), will ensure patients receive the highest quality care possible and that students learn how to use population health management.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is joining a national response to the opioid epidemic.
The latest research into finding medications to aid the passage of ureteral or kidney stones has shown that tamsulosin is not effective for patients.
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.
A new team of internationally recognized experts will lead the expanded Bone Marrow Transplant and Cell Therapies Program at the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center.
The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences has renamed the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology. It is now the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
The Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) is partnering with the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences on an accelerated pathway to admission and advanced standing in two of MUIH’s programs for GW graduates.
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.
Many people who go into medicine have been dreaming about it since they were very young — one or both parents may have been physicians, for example. Some, however, realize their passion for medicine without having such early exposure. Rachel Zemel was one of the latter.
