Making the Rounds

Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., will address M.D. graduates at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) M.D. Diploma Ceremony May 17.

Any minute now, an expectant mother is set to give birth in the Clinical Learning & Simulation Skills Center.

The 2015 Follies, an annual event of song, dance, and parody by first-, second-, third-, and fourth-year medical students, as well as physical therapy (PT) and physician assistant (PA) students, was a smash on March 27.

The George Washington University (GW) recently opened the doors to its newest campus facility at the corner of 22nd and H streets: the 500,000-square-foot, multidisciplinary Science and Engineering Hall (SEH).

An interdisciplinary, city-wide consortium of researchers led by Alan E. Greenberg, M.D.

In his first six months as a clinical virologist at the University of Oxford, in 1988, Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., identified part of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that could stimulate a white blood cell.

Despite a nationwide search, GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) leadership didn’t have to look very far to find the ideal successor to John Larsen, M.D., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN), who stepped down after nearly four decades at GW.

In the interest of further advancing the George Washington University research mission, GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) has selected renowned neuroscientist and research administrator Robert H. Miller, Ph.D., to serve as the senior associate dean for research.

Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, founder and executive director of the Office of International Medicine Programs (IMP), was recently named associate dean for international medicine.

As the health care debate rages on, policy-makers and physicians are trying to mend a system that many Americans think is overpriced and underperforming. “There is an urgency to create a health care system of quality care that is both innovative and efficient,” says Jesse Pines, M.D., M.B.A.