Faculty News

Researchers at SMHS, led by Abigail Polter, PhD, received a $2.2 million grant from the NIH for a study on chronic stress.

Terry Kind, MD, MPH, was selected as a member of the Inaugural Cohort of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics.

Cancer prevention expert Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH, joined GW as the director of the Cancer Preventorium.

SMHS continues to grow its expertise with the addition of three new GW Health Sciences program directors.

Christina Puchalski, MD ’94, RESD ’97, founding director of GWish, and colleagues published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Sally Moody, PhD, chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, took part in a course on developmental biology.

Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) are laying the groundwork for a future in which health care providers can more accurately diagnose brain injury and dysfunction in newborns with the use of an inexpensive and non-invasive diagnostic tool — electroencephalography (EEG).

Steven Davis, MD, RESD ’08, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), has been selected as the 2019 National Clerkship Director of the Year at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

A research team led by Yanfen Hu, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences and a member of the GW Cancer Center, is studying the role of the tumor suppressor BRCA1 in the homologous recombination pathway of DNA doub

Burnout is more prevalent among health care and health sciences workers, professionals, and trainees than among the general U.S. population, and to help tackle the growing issue Kaylan A.