Fall 2018 Issue

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.

In an effort to improve health equity and health care access and to bring research and technology to Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University Hospital (GW Hospital) signed a letter of intent to oversee the opening of a new hospital and health complex in Southeast D

To ensure diverse clinical experiences for students and residents, and to present them with the opportunity to help a wide range of patients, the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) recently broadened its clinical rotation site offerings.

It’s one thing to be a clinician; it’s another to be a “clinician-citizen.” In the autumn of 2014, the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) committed to integrating clinical public health into MD education and thus working toward graduating clinician-cit

Two top-notch George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) teachers — Scott Cohen, MD, associate professor of medicine, and Aviva Ellenstein, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology — received this year’s prestigious Distinguished Teacher Award, given annually to M

Mohammad Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD ’99, made the journey from his childhood home in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation to the heights of neurosurgery, trained in both cerebrovascular and endovascular surgery and gifted in the high-stakes game of aneurysm repair and stroke care.

As an EMT in college, Natalie Sullivan, MD, would rush her patients through the outer doors of the ambulance bay and into the bright lights of the emergency room, but from there she could go no further.

Sabyasachi Sen, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, recently received a 2018 DC Center for AIDS Research Pilot Award for his study titled “What Is the Impact of Current HIV Medication Regimens on Endothelial Dys

William Borden, MD, associate professor of medicine and health policy at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published commentary in the journal JAMA Cardiology to accompany a study on the public reporting of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) outco

George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center researcher Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD, was awarded a prestigious grant from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.