Off the Hook
GW Researchers Close in on Hookworm Vaccine It has been decades since the last case of hookworm was reported in the United States, but the intestinal parasite still infects more than 500 million people...
View ArticleA Call to Arms
National tragedies prompt health care leaders to move mental health to the forefront By Thomas Kohout t 9:40 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2012, a troubled 20-year-old walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and...
View ArticlePhysical Therapy on the Brain
GW’s Health Sciences Programs Prepare to Launch PT Neurologic Residency Program By Kristin Hubing hen Elizabeth Ruckert graduated from Ithaca College with her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree in...
View ArticleComparative Speaking
Clinical Research and Leadership Professor Shawneequa Callier, J.D., M.A., weighs in on the implications of human genome research By Kristin Hubing n the summer of 1996, the scientific community was...
View ArticleHippocrates and the Essences of Euripides
Medical humanities education illuminates the human condition, creates more effective clinicians By Steve Goldstein n the film 50/50, based on a true story, a 27-year-old writer is blindsided by a...
View ArticleBopper Comes Back to GW
By Laura Otto awrence Deyton asks that you call him by his nickname, Bopper. After all, it’s what his family, friends, and colleagues have always called him. “I didn’t even know about the name Lawrence...
View ArticleFocal Point
GW’s Mary Ann Stepp, Ph.D., probes the healing potential of stem cells to save the sight of millions By Steve Goldstein f the eyes are the windows to the soul, then Mary Ann Stepp, Ph.D., has the most...
View ArticleJumping to Solutions
Researcher Sally Moody uses frog embryos to clear the knowledge gap in neural regeneration By Steve Goldstein ally A. Moody is a lab rat. She works with frogs in service to the world’s mammals,...
View ArticleWhere Seizures Freeze
At GW, bridges between the clinic and the bench may revolutionize epilepsy care By Amy Maxmen hen Carrie Morgan* turned 10 years old, she learned she had a seizure disorder. For the next 28 years, she...
View ArticleHome Field Advantage
Vice President and Dean Jeffrey S. Akman employs his gift for uniting people to benefit the School of Medicine and Health Sciences By Steven Goldstein hanksgiving break, 1977. Jeffrey Scott Akman,...
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