Faculty in the Media
Did you know that early detection of lung cancer can significantly increase your 5-year survival rate to about 90%? And that lung cancer screenings are easy, quick, and painless?
Julie Bauman, MD, MPH, hosted a GW Medicine Bicentennial Series presentation featuring GW Cancer
Center experts explaining how researchers have advanced cutting-edge treatments that empower the
body’s natural immune system to fight cancer.
Sunil Adige, MD, discusses how breast cancer awareness efforts can enable earlier detection, better disease management, and improved patient outcomes.
The GW Cancer Center is proud to announce that thoracic surgeon Sora Ely, MD, has been appointed as the Co-Chair of the DC Cancer Coalition, a pivotal organization dedicated to reducing the cancer burden in the District of Columbia.
The paths that led Rowan Schmincke to the GW Cancer Center felt, to her, very varied and circuitous. At times, she wondered where she was going. Ultimately, those paths converged at Foggy Bottom, where her work as an oncology clinical research nurse is helping to discover cutting-edge solutions in…
James Rao's toolbox is filled with some of the most technical devices medicine has to offer. As one of the GW Cancer Center's radiation oncologists, Dr. Rao may perform stereotactic radiosurgery on one patient and brachytherapy on the next. His goal is to be as minimally invasive as possible and to…
What do you get when you combine a love of psychology with a keen interest in medicine? Clinical social worker Jessica Gelfarb knows that answer well. With one foot in both worlds, she helps GW Cancer Center patients navigate their most challenging life journeys. While she guides them through the…
Robert H. Miller’s appointment as interim vice provost for research will further build on progress led by Pamela M. Norris
Maho Shibata’s worldview frames her approach to science and cancer research. Born in Japan, she came to the United States as a young child, returned to Japan, and then moved to Australia before obtaining her undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Virginia.
Elmer Huerta’s path from treating cancer to educating patients on how to prevent and control the disease took him from Peru to Baltimore and, finally, to Washington, DC, and the GW Cancer Center. Here, he leads the Cancer Preventorium, which is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year — a…