The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of James L. Griffith, M.D., as the Leon M. Yochelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), together with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, will launch a two-year initiative aimed at reducing catastrophic injuries among young athletes during the National Conference on Youth Sports Safety, being held in Washington, DC November 7-8, 2013.
The George Washington University (GW) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Rodham Institute for Healthcare Provider Education to Eliminate Disparities. The Institute, which is housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is named in honor of the late Mrs. Dorothy E. Rodham with the vision of promoting health equity in the District of Columbia through community-focused education and training of health care providers.
A new analysis by a team led by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) examines factors affecting the integration of mental health and substance abuse treatment services with medical care at community health centers.
Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences found that outpatient emergency department encounters could reimburse considerably more after implementation of the insurance coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act.
The George Washington University Cancer Institute received the 2013 Association of Community Cancer Centers’ Innovator Award. The Institute, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was recognized as a top 10 cancer program in developing and pioneering solutions to address the challenges of treating cancer patients.
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George Washington University Researchers Dr. Jeffrey Bethony and Dr. David Diemert have received a grant to develop and test a novel, low-cost hookworm vaccine to help control human hookworm infection in endemic countries.
Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the George Washington University, was recently published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine for his paper, “Non-Emergency Department (ED) Interventions to Reduce ED Utilization: A Systematic Review."
Researchers, using quantitative methods focused on the shape of dental fossils, find that none of the usual suspects fits the expected profile of an ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
The District of Columbia Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) investigating prescribing of antipsychotics to District seniors. The study combines pharmaceutical marketing data collected by the District with publicly available data on nursing home quality and Medicare drug claims.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce a new educational and research affiliation with the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) examines the impact of health reform on community health centers (CHCs) and their patients.
State public health departments do not necessarily lose funding when merged with larger Medicaid programs, according to a just-released study by lead author Paula Lantz, PhD, chair of the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).
The George Washington (GW) University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) has been awarded three large grants for projects that will look for innovative solutions to some of the nation’s most pressing public health challenges. The awards, the largest of which tops $1.8 million, join a long list of SPHHS initiatives, programs and studies that have been funded by the federal government, private foundations and others, to improve the health care system, look for ways to prevent diseases and facilitate the dramatic transformation of the U.S. health care system.
Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the division of nephrology and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was the recipient of two prestigious UO-1 grants from the National Institutes of Health. These multi-million dollar studies will examine the role of gut microbiome on inflammation and cardiovascular disease.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that Vincent Chiappinelli, Ph.D., has been named as the associate vice president for health affairs and associate dean of the SMHS.
Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a $1,973,645 grant from the National Eye Institute to study developmental origins of wakefulness in the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain responsible for cognition and perception.
Urgent Matters, housed within the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, announces the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a newly created competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
Melissa Perry, ScD, MHS, chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), has been elected to the position of president of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), the professional organization dedicated to continued education and advocacy for epidemiologists in their efforts to promote good science and the public health.
Health Information & the Law, a project at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), released new resources on a website that offers easy-to-understand content on key issues related to the use and exchange of health information and how it affects the transformation of the U.S. health care system to a patient-centered, value-based system.
Richard Katz, M.D., Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology, professor of medicine, and director of the division of cardiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been awarded $1.9 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a three-year project to study the combined use of mobile phones and community health workers to enhance patient management of chronic disease.
The George Washington University Cancer Institute has been awarded a $2.1 million cooperative agreement to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to design and implement a comprehensive technical assistance plan to support CDC-funded Comprehensive Cancer Control programs.
Medicaid paid for 45 percent of the 4 million births in the United States in 2010, an amount that has been rising over time, according to a report out today. The study, published in the September 2013 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Women’s Health Issues, offers the most comprehensive information to date on Medicaid financing of births in each of the 50 states and nationally.
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a $407,233 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop techniques to manipulate hookworm DNA.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and GW School of Public Health and Health Services is pleased to announce a two-year Neurology Health Policy Research Fellowship.
George Washington University researcher Aleksandar Jeremic will study the role the human pancreatic hormone plays in the development of the disease.
On Thursday, August 29 The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences will join together to help those in need at this year’s Commitment to Community Day.
A landmark immigration bill passed by the Senate would create new pathways to citizenship and provide a much-needed boost to the U.S. economy but would do little to ease immigration-related disparities in health care, according to a new report from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) will expand its degree offerings with a PhD and Master of Science (MS) in epidemiology under the management of SPHHS. In 1995, SPHHS launched the degrees as joint programs with the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS). The decision was recently made to officially house the PhD and MS programs in epidemiology in the SPHHS. The programs will offer a comprehensive mix of epidemiology methods, public health and statistics courses.
Amir Afkhami, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and global health, has been named as a 2013–2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow.
Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a $747,000 federal grant to research the causes of severe intellectual disability and autism.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce the establishment of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation.
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and George Washington University (GWU) have developed a method to rapidly identify pathogenic species and strains causing illnesses, such as pneumonia, that could help lead to earlier detection of disease outbreaks and pinpoint effective treatments more quickly.
Existing Medicaid beneficiaries have largely been left out of the health reform movement when it comes to preventive services that can ward off cancer, heart disease and other potentially deadly diseases, according to a new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).
A new study by Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, reports that RORA, a novel candidate gene for autism discovered by her group in a 2010 study, regulates a large number of other genes associated with autism.
An estimated two-thirds of all Americans are overweight or obese and many find it difficult to lose weight and keep it off. They’ve tried fad diets, exercise programs, diet pills and other methods but the battle continues. Now, a new study suggests that watching an avatar model weight-loss behavior in a virtual community might help some women shed pounds in the real world.
George Washington University researcher, in upcoming Nature study, collected motion data from baseball players to uncover why humans are such good throwers.
A recently published paper by the George Washington University Cancer Institute addresses the value of patient navigation programs for community cancer centers.
Researcher Michael S. Irwig, M.D., F.A.C.E., assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the Center for Andrology at The GW Medical Faculty Associates, found that men who used the medication finasteride (Propecia) and developed persistent sexual side effects, are also drinking less alcohol than before.
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the United States less than 25 percent of newly minted doctors go into this field and only a tiny fraction, 4.8 percent, set up shop in rural areas, according to a study just released in the “Published Ahead-of-Print” section in Academic Medicine by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).
Despite their inclusion as essential health benefits, habilitative services face an uncertain future under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new analysis done at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).
A commentary accompanying research published in The Lancet, calls for greater public health policies to eradicate iodine deficiency in the U.K. and other developed countries, including the United States.
The results of a new study led by George Washington University Professor Tianshu Li provide direct computational evidence that nucleation of ice in small droplets is strongly size-dependent, an important conclusion in understanding water’s behavior at the nanoscale.
The George Washington (GW) University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) will hold a forum on May 22 to discuss public health issues that disproportionately affect Latino immigrant communities. At the same time, SPHHS will announce the launch of the Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health, a collaborative partnership that aims to prevent/address Latino health disparities with a unique program that provides support to Latino youth and families.
A study released today by George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) researchers offers an in-depth look at hospitals nationwide and admissions to intensive care units (ICU). The study, published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine, finds a sharp increase—nearly 50 percent—in ICU admissions coming from U.S. emergency departments.
A George Washington University biologist and a team of researchers have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe.
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