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Division of Cardiology adds specialty in heart failure services at the GW Medical Faculty Associates
Gurusher Panjrath, MD will join the cardiology faculty at the GW Heart & Vascular Institute as the new director of Advanced Heart Failure Services for GW Medical Faculty Associates, initiating the left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) program. Dr. Panjrath completed his general cardiology and heart failure transplantation fellowships at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Panjrath's research interests include heart muscle metabolism and energetics. He is a young investigators award finalist for the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Panjrath has authored and co-authored over fifty manuscripts, books, chapters and abstracts.
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 Jannet Lewis, MD, co-authors chapter on women's heart health
Jannet Lewis, MD, director of the Women's Heart Center at the GW Heart & Vascular Institute recently co-authored a chapter on "Diagnosis and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease in Women," in the book "Women & Health, Second Edition." This chapter was co-authored by C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.
The chapter provides a background about the significance of heart disease in women, risk factors, and clinical presentation. There are also details regarding different diagnostic modalities and management in women in particular.
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Thank you for your donations!
The Institute received a record number of end of the year gifts from individuals at the close of 2012 totaling nearly $30,000. That was a 51% increase of last year's efforts at the close of 2011. Thank you to all of our donors for your continued support of the Institute and its mission to advance cardiovascular research, education, and community outreach in the Washington, DC region.
Gifts to the Institute can be made online by visiting: https://my.gwu.edu/mod/heartandvascular/
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 Save the Date for a Frontiers in Medicine lecture series on "Heart Healthy Women," March 13, 2013
A panel of GW Heart & Vascular Institute experts will discuss advances in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and the role that lifestyle modification plays in prevention. The program will be moderated by Alan Wasserman, MD, MACP, Chairman, Department of Medicine, Eugene Meyer Professor of Medicine; and include speakers Richard Katz, MD, Director, GW Heart & Vascular Institute; Jannet Lewis, MD, Director, Women's Heart Center; Richard Neville, MD; Co-Director GW Heart & Vascular Institute; and Irene Pollin, MSW, PhD (Hon), Founder and Chairman of Sister to Sister.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Time: Reception at 6:30, Panel at 7:00pm
Location: The Jack Morton Auditorium at 805 21st Street, NW, Washington DC
RSVP: Natalie Allgeier at 202-994-8738, allgeier@gwu.edu
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