Making the Rounds
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.
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.