News Archive
With as many students and faculty active in education, practice, policy and research as we have at GW Nursing, it can be difficult to capture all of their stories. These are just some examples of the work going on here — work done by dedicated students and top-tier faculty alike — that help this school continue to grow and flourish.
Policy Review reveals obstacles to access less costly, life-saving drugs for patients in the U.S.
December 3, 2020
Researchers have developed the first report card on biosimilars for three blockbuster cancer drugs marketed by Genentech/Roche: Rituxan, Avastin and Herceptin. In a Policy Review in The Lancet Oncology, Y. Tony Yang, a professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing and Milken Institute School of Public Health, along with researchers at the University of South Carolina, the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California, the Virginia Mason Cancer Institute and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, identify factors preventing the effective launch of oncology biosimilars in the United States, including the struggle to garner market share and fighting patent litigation lawsuits across the country. They also report inadequate rollouts for the first wave of oncology biosimilars for AMGEN’s supportive care cancer drugs Neupogen, Epogen and Neulasta.
5B Film Screening in honor of World AIDS Day
December 3, 2020
To commemorate World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the GW School of Nursing and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) partnered to screen the documentary film 5B. Focused on a nurse-run ward at San Francisco General Hospital this film follows the healthcare workers who cared for HIV AIDS patients at the height of the epidemic in the mid-1980s. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nurse Historian Ella Curry. The panel consisted of nurses Allison Moed Paolercio and Cliff Morrison, who stood up and managed Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital. Joining them was one of the film’s directors, Brendan Gaul, and Dr. David Keepnews, professor of nursing at the GW School of Nursing and director of the D.N.P. program in Health Policy.
GW Veterans Seek New Ways to Serve Through Nursing
November 10, 2020
George Washington University School of Nursing student Tyler Wood said it was a desire to continue serving others that pushed him to pursue a career in nursing after completing his service as a combat medic in the United States Navy.
“This is Getting Old” — A Podcast with a Purpose
November 7, 2020
Melissa Batchelor, director of the Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities and a leader in geriatric nursing, is coming up with innovative ways to disseminate content on age-friendly systems within this field and beyond. Too often, nursing and aging issues are considered to be niche topics, not relevant to general health care research, education or policy. Both, however, are of extreme importance to the entire health care system, because “when things are age-friendly, they are friendly for everyone” — an idea that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light. So how has she been able to creatively disseminate her important messages? She has a podcast.
Duty Calls
November 7, 2020
If life were a movie, a grizzled Richard “Ric” Ricciardi would have been splitting firewood at the end of a long driveway when Department of Defense officials drove up and told him the world needed him to come back to work. It wasn’t that dramatic, but the DOD certainly caught Ricciardi off guard when it asked for his help to lead COVID-19 operations and public health response at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
GW Nursing faculty featured in video explaining the "Twindemic"
October 25, 2020
Dean Pamela Jeffries and Richard Ricciardi offer their expertise in a video by the Washington Post that explores the onset of a "twindemic." Watch the video on the Washington Post website.
Merck Grant Awarded
September 17, 2020
Sigma President Called to Active Duty
September 17, 2020
GW Nursing is Continuing the Conversation about Structural Racism in America
September 16, 2020
GW Nursing Students Take Charge at COVID-19 Testing Site
September 9, 2020
When it was announced that George Washington University would be bringing back a limited number of students, faculty and staff on campuses this fall and that individuals would need to be regularly tested for COVID-19, leaders at the GW School of Nursing got to work.
Continuing the Conversation
June 12, 2020
To help students, faculty, staff and alumni process systemic racism and its impact on society, GW Nursing will be hosting a series of events this summer
