The work of Health Policy and Management (HPM) students and staff earned top honors at GW’s Health and Medicine Research Day. The annual event is dedicated to highlighting the breadth of research on issues of major disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and global significance being done at the George Washington University.
Kan Gianattasio received the Milken Institute School of Public Health’s Judges’ Choice Award for a doctoral student, which includes $400, for “Evaluating the Patient-Centered Quality of Cancer Survivorship Care Models,” which describes research she is conducting with Associate Professor Holly Mead. Joy Eckert earned the school’s Policy and Practice Award for “Promotion of New Diabetes Products in the District of Columbia,” research that she and HPM MPH Student Dilipan (Dili) Sundaramoorthy completed with Associate Professor Susan Wood.
“All of our students do excellent work, and Kan, Dili and Joy are truly extraordinary students who have made outstanding contributions to important research being conducted in the HPM department. All three are poised to make a real difference in health policy,” said HPM Professor and Chair Thomas LaVeist.
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