Profiles

Kris Lehnhardt was lying on the living room floor of his Toronto home, watching TV with his mother, when the original Star Trek TV show came on. He stared, enraptured, a small boy trying to comprehend life exploring the universe.
This is a true story, begins Uchechi Iweala, M.D., a second-year resident in orthopedic surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
In January 2010, a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, centered near the town of Léogâne, struck Haiti.
When James Boddu and Ajlan Al Zaki, second-year medical students at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), took over as editors of Fusion, the William H.
Clay Siegall, Ph.D. ’88, was 19 years old when his father was diagnosed with brain cancer. “Life changes as you know it,” Siegall says. The University of Maryland premedical student — one of five siblings — stepped in on occasion to help, accompanying his father to the oncologist.
Jehan El-Bayoumi, M.D., RESD ’88, dedicates herself to delivering medical care for all.
As a rule, Physician Assistants (PA) are passionate about their profession. They aren’t simply practitioners, they are proponents, eager to extol the virtues of their chosen field.
Luther W. Brady Jr., M.D. ’48, B.A. ’46, A.A. ’44, HON ’04
Fresh out of medical school and on the first assignment of his young medical career, Yen-Yi Juo, M.D., M.P.H., found himself aboard a minesweeper, responsible for the health of 75 sailors and crew members as a medical officer for the Taiwanese Navy.
When Jaspreet Suri arrived in Southern California as a 7-year-old in 1995, among his earliest experiences was a broken leg during school.