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The following health policy experts at the GW Medical Center are available to comment on the State of the Union address.

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A Nobel Prize winner will soon be teaching and conducting life saving research at the George Washington University. Professor Ferid Murad, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine and world renowned pioneer in biochemistry, will join the faculty in April 2011.

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Starch granules from plant food were discovered trapped in the dental calculus on 40-thousand-year-old Neandertal teeth, leading scientists to believe that Neandertals ate a wide variety of plants and included cooked grains as part of a more sophisticated, diverse diet similar to early modern humans.

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Prof. Katherine Hayes is available to comment on the recent court ruling by Virginia Judge Henry E. Hudson on health reform.

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Renowned economist Barry R. Chiswick will join the George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) in January as the new chair of its Department of Economics. A former economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Dr. Chiswick comes to GW from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he served as a distinguished professor and founding director of the UIC Center for Economic Education.

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The GW School of Nursing will host a pinning ceremony on December 6 to mark the completion of its first Bachelor of Science class within the newly-established school. Seventeen students will take part in the ceremony, which begins at 6 p.m. in the GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus’s Innovation Hall. Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Special Advisor on Nursing to the President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be the guest speaker.

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Recent events in Haiti illustrate the urgent need for countries to stockpile and distribute cholera vaccines. Dr. Peter Hotez, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and distinguished research professor and chair of The George Washington University Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, emphasizes this need in a commentary in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

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Dr. Daniel Lieberman from The George Washington University is available to comment on alcohol abuse as it relates to alcoholic energy drinks such as Four Loko.

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The GW Cancer Institute (GWCI) at The George Washington University Medical Center has joined forces with Banca Civica, a financial institution from Spain pioneering the innovative concept of civic banking, to fight cancer in Washington, D.C.

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GW's Dr. Peter Hotez can comment on the cholera outbreak in Haiti and confirmed cases in the Dominican Republic and Florida.

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The George Washington University School of Nursing has received full accreditation for its bachelor's, master’s and doctoral programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

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Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of the City of New York, will address graduates of the George Washington University at its Commencement on the National Mall Sunday, May 15, 2011.

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GW experts are available to speak about the midterm elections.

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The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The GW Medical Faculty Associates, and The GW Hospital announced today the appointment of Anton N. Sidawy, M.D., M.P.H., as the new Chairman of the Department of Surgery. The appointment comes after a national search for a new chair for this key department at one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. He will assume this position on December 1, 2010.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), in partnership with three community-based organizations, has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the Department of Heath and Human Service’s (HHS) Office of Adolescent Health. This grant is part of a $155 million commitment by HHS to support the replication of teen pregnancy prevention programs that have been shown to be effective through rigorous research as well as the testing of new, innovative approaches to combating teen pregnancy.

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The George Washington University Medical Center has been tapped to serve as the Coordinating Center for multiple NIH Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) programs and linked grantees that are focused on improving medical education and research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The five-year, $12.5 million grant awarded to GW will fund the Coordinating Center that will oversee the $130 million U.S. commitment to the program.

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The Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University has been chosen by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to be a part of the Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Network II program, also known as “ACTION II.” Like its predecessor, ACTION, ACTION II is a model of field-based research designed to promote innovation in health care delivery by accelerating the uptake of research into practice. As an ACTION II partner, GW will have the important opportunity to thoroughly examine and address issues related to care for vulnerable populations now and in the future as health reform begins to unfold.

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The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the GW Cancer Institute (GWCI) were recently awarded $4.25 million by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to establish a National Cancer Survivorship Resource Center. Work on the project will begin on September 30.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Health Policy today released a report that, for the first time, calculated the startlingly high individual costs of obesity to Americans. The report, “A Heavy Burden: The Individual Costs of Being Overweight and Obese in the United States,” authored by Avi Dor, Professor and Director of Health Economics Program at The George Washington University, and colleagues used a series of measures including indirect costs, lost productivity, and direct costs, such as obesity-related medical expenditures, to estimate the price tag of obesity at the individual level.

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The political tides are gravitating toward Republicans even though a quarter of Americans still blame former President George W. Bush for the state of the economy, the latest edition of the bipartisan POLITICO-George Washington University Battleground Poll found.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) has named Melissa J. Perry, Sc.D., M.H.S., chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Perry will begin her tenure as chair and professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in January 2011.

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A new issue brief from The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, co-authored by Commission staff and researchers at the George Washington University’s Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the role of health centers in national health reform and the issues that will affect health center expansion to meet the growing need for primary health care.

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The GW School of Nursing is pleased to accept a gift from the HCA Virginia Health System’s Reston Hospital Center that will contribute to the expanded educational resources offered by the school. Established in July 2010, the GW School of Nursing offers its students cutting-edge educational opportunities which include clinical skills practice in a newly built, 3000-square-foot simulation lab. This resource enables students to work autonomously in simulated real-life situations, while their professors oversee, evaluate, and provide feedback.

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The GW Cancer Institute (GWCI) was recently awarded a $2.4 million grant from the D.C. Cancer Consortium to establish and coordinate a City-wide Patient Navigation Network (CPNN) in Washington, D.C. The CPNN will create a seamless cohesive framework for cancer care coordination across the entire city.

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GW Medical Center students and leadership will roll up their sleeves and get involved with community service projects, as part of the annual GW Medical Center Community Service Day. Students, residents, administrators and faculty will spread out across the District to offer a helping hand at a variety of non-profit organizations.

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Using renewable solar energy and a process of solar conversion that he patented called Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) energy conversion, Dr. Stuart Licht is able to easily extract pure metal iron from the two prevalent iron ores, hematite and magnetite, without emitting carbon dioxide.

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Online presence may hold the key to November elections.

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Dr. Peter Hotez from The George Washington University is available to comment on the risk of water-borne diseases as a result of the recent flooding in Pakistan.

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Scientists have discovered an accomplice in breast cancer – a master control switch with the power to set off a cascade of reactions orchestrated by a cancer-causing gene (or oncogene) named Wnt1. This executive molecule and its modus operandi are reported in back-to-back papers featured on the cover of the August 15 issue of Cancer Research.

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In a paper in the Aug. 14 edition of The Lancet, authors representing The George Washington University, The Sabin Vaccine Institute, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Imperial College of London call for increased supplies of praziquantel for the African continent. Praziquantel is the only commercially available treatment for human schistosomiasis, a devastating neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 200-600 million people worldwide, with the vast majority of cases occurring in Africa, producing a disease burden that could exceed that of malaria.

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Rapidly growing sector of tourism capitalizes on destinations’ natural and cultural resources.

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Sara Rosenbaum from The George Washington University is available to comment on the recent decision (Commonwealth of Virginia v Sebelius) regarding Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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Experts are available to speak about immigration law and policy, healthcare and cultural and political history.

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The George Washington University announced today that it has established a new Institute for Neuroscience. The institute, which is housed in GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will accelerate multidisciplinary research across GW’s schools and establish a new core facility for Neuroscience studies. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., an internationally renowned neuroscientist formerly at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will serve as the institute’s founding director.

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New research, published in the journal Development, by Dr. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, professor of Pharmacology & Physiology and director of the newly formed GW Institute for Neuroscience, and his colleagues have identified the stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells – olfactory receptors (ORNs), vomeronasal (VRNs) and gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons – that are responsible for enabling animals and humans, to eat, interact socially and reproduce.

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A major discovery, led by researchers from The George Washington University Medical Center, promises to revolutionize the way scientists think about key aspects of cellular lifecycle and offers a new avenue for cancer researchers to explore in their quest to one day slow down the progression of cancer.

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A new partnership will allow both institutions, their scholars, scientists and researchers to begin working together to increase contributions to science, share their knowledge with the public, and engage in the development and education of future generations.

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Dr. Peter Hotez of The George Washington University Medical Center is available to comment on the recent outbreak of Dengue virus in the Florida Keys.

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Children's National Medical Center, in partnership with The George Washington University Medical Center, has received a prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.

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Researchers from institutions across Washington, DC, led by Alan E. Greenberg, M.D., M.P.H., of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, have been awarded an approximately $3M grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to establish the District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR). The mission of the D-CFAR will be to provide scientific leadership and institutional infrastructure to promote HIV/AIDS research, and to develop the next generation of HIV/AIDS investigators in Washington, whose population has one of the country’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection.

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Shortly after the April 20th explosion and fire on the drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf Coast, the emergency and specialty physicians of the George Washington University-Maritime Medical Access program (MMA) have been responding to an increase in calls from marine spill response crews participating in the cleanup effort in the Gulf Coast.

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Chris Chiames brings more than 25 years of experience and success in corporate, government, and non-profit management to The George Washington University’s Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular Institute. Chiames started his new role at GW on June 21, 2010.

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While most theories on aging to date emphasize the effects of stress, radiation, oxidation or caloric intake as major factors that control human lifespan by damaging DNA, a new theory states that within the DNA itself, are archaic retroviruses, much like HIV, which can damage DNA, and therefore possibly control the lifespan of humans.

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Pregnant women with thyroid function test results in the upper half of the normal range have an increased chance of miscarriage, even when they lack thyroid-harming antibodies, according to a new study. The results, which the authors say show the need to change screening practices for pregnant women, will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting.

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GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus Hosts Science Camp for Girls, June 21-25, 2010.

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The George Washington University’s Department of Nursing Education has announced the appointment of Dr. Joyce Hahn, Ph.D., A.P.R.N.-C.N.S., N.E.A.-B.C. as executive director for the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care (NAQC), an initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her appointment was effective June 1.

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Using notes taken by Darwin himself, GW researchers uncovered the identity of the species, Leucauge argyrobapta, which will now help taxonomists understand the complicated lineage of orb-weaving spiders.

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Based on chip and tooth size, the research of George Washington University anthropologists Paul Constantino and Peter Lucas suggests that early humans consumed large, hard foods such as seeds and nuts and occasionally used high bite forces to do so.

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A team of scientists now know what may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain two million years ago. Archeologists working in Kenya unearthed evidence that our human ancestors ate a wide variety of animals including fish, turtles and even crocodiles. Based on analyses of animal bones and stone tools they excavated, the research team found that our early ancestors incorporated aquatic “brain food” in their diet.

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The George Washington University has named Dr. Lynn R. Goldman, pediatrician and epidemiologist, as dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). Dr. Goldman will set a vision for the school and help enhance undergraduate and graduate educational and research programs. She will begin her tenure at GW in mid-August.