Katherine Dvorak
Compassionate is the first word that comes to mind when her family thinks about her, says Daviana Robles-Monge, a freshman at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Kindness is important to her, helping people and offering a shoulder to lean on whenever and wherever she can, and…
As large gold-colored scissors cut into a white ribbon adorned with the logo of the Governor’s Health Sciences Academy at T.C. Williams High School, cheers echoed across the auditorium from family, friends, students, and government and community leaders celebrating the official launch of the…
Diversity often is defined as increasing representation of people from all backgrounds in a particular field, but it’s also more than varying the makeup of an organization, it’s supporting diversity of thought, says Keith Melancon, MD, PhD, director of the George Washington University (GW)…
Just days after George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) students gathered to express concerns about gun violence and patient safety, two more shootings occurred: One in Wisconsin and one in Pennsylvania. The next day, another shooting occurred, this time in…
Lexis Deshazor-Burnett, a rising junior at North Carolina A&T State University, credits the George Washington University (GW) Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer (GW-SPARC) with opening her eyes to the myriad research paths she could follow.
In an effort to improve health equity and health care access and to bring research and technology to Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University Hospital signed a letter of intent to oversee the opening of a new hospital and health complex in Southeast D.C.
In an effort to give students at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) the ability to enrich their medical education overseas without adding to the debt they accrue during their years in school, the GW International Medicine Programs (IMP) provides…