Spring 2014 Issue

Dominic Raj, M.D., M.B.B.S., professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, and director of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, took home the 2014 Distinguished Researcher Award as faculty, residents, and students from throughout GW’s School of Medicine and Health Science

Follies, the Broadway-like variety show featuring musical numbers, choreographed dance routines, and plenty of slapstick comedy, is an annual rite for GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences students looking to blow off some steam as the end of the spring semester approaches.

SMHS Opens the Doors on a Major Update and Expansion to Its Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills Center

Faculty Development Initiative Supports New Strategies in the Classroom

Minimally Invasive Surgeon Keith Mortman, M.D., Joins GW

At this year’s Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, more than 20 accidents at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, the site of the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events such as halfpipe, slopestyle, and moguls, forced many athletes out of the competition.

Hope Jackson, M.D. ’09, serves as a medical consultant on the television drama Grey’s Anatomy

On Christmas Eve 2013, as children around the world were nestled snug in their beds waiting for Santa Claus, NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins suited up and prepared for an Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) — or spacewalk — to repair the International Space Station’s orbiting outpost