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A Letter from Barbara L. Bass, MD, RESD '86, Vice President for Health Affairs; Dean, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Professor of Surgery; and CEO of The GW Medical Faculty Associates,
As she stood on the infield of Camden Yards, looking out at the crowd on hand for the Baltimore Orioles home game against the Detroit Tigers, Sept. 21, 2022, Fatima Koroma couldn’t help marvel at how much has changed in the past two years.
It's the stories that matter, says Shaitalya Vellanki, MD. Once, during medical school in New Orleans, she sat with a woman seeking care at a shelter. The woman had escaped a physically and verbally abusive household to be homeless by choice. What mattered, the woman said, was that being…
Last autumn, Washington, D.C., leaders and representatives from Universal Health Services, the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and The GW Medical Faculty Associates, cut the ribbon on the first of two urgent care centers in southeast Washington, D.C., key pieces of…
Each year during reunion weekend — amid the class gatherings, campus tours, endowed lectures, and reunion dinners — several smaller groups of dedicated George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) alumni meet with a larger purpose beyond just reconnecting and…
Wyn Dobbs, a member of the MD Class of 2023 at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), and Shaitalya Sri Vellanki, MD, a second-year internal medicine resident at GW SMHS, are the inaugural recipients of the Akman Innovation Fund — created in honor…
For more than a century and across four generations, the Perlin family has been a part of George Washington University. In 2022, Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, and Donna J. Perlin, MD, found a way to celebrate the couple at the very center of that long history.