Fall 2019 Issue
January 2019 marked the start of the 25th anniversary year for the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ (SMHS) Office of International Medicine Programs (IMP).
Postpartum hemorrhage — in which a woman experiences heavy bleeding after giving birth — is a rare but serious condition that, if not treated quickly, can result in shock and death.
Family history of breast cancer drives MD student’s passion for oncology, health equality
Remembering those who passed away.
Paul Joseph Anderson, MD ’88
Doris Martens Araujo, MD ’51
Gregory Saul Berlin, MD ’74
George F. Buerger Jr., MD ’62
Don B. Cameron, MD ’60, RESD ’63
Paul J. Corso Jr., MD ’69, RESD ’76, BA ’66
In his new book, “A Modern Contagion” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), Amir Afkhami, MD ’03, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, uses Iranian, European, and American arch
Joseph René Smith, MD ’80, BS ’74, recently returned from a volunteer mission to Vietnam. Smith was one of two designated medical directors for the Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC), a student-run volunteer organization with the University of Washington.
A Medical Mission as a Third-Year Medical Student Provided David Rapp, MD ’01, with a Global Perspective on Health Care
Participation in a research scholarly concentration is an important step in giving medical students the aspiration to become physician-researchers, regardless of their research experience before entering medical school, according to a new study published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine.
Gail Lebovic, MD ’86, Turns Passion for Problem Solving into Creation of Medical Devices