GW IN THE NEWS Week of January 28 - February 1, 2002    ·             Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was at GW Hospital to announce the state-by-state breakdown of funds to help states in their efforts to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. The following news outlets attended the press conference: The Washington Post, Scripps Howard News Service, Annals of Emergency Medicine, ABC News, Newhouse Newspapers, Associated Press, Exchange Monitor, Bloomberg, CBS News, WAMU Radio, WUSA-TV (Channel 9), Channel 8 News, WMAL-AM, Channel 16, Capital News Service, Gannett News Service, Health News Daily, CNN, WUSA-TV (Channel 4), Cox Newspapers, Dispatch Broadcast, The Los Angeles Times, WTTG-TV (Channel 5), St. Louis Dispatch, Reuters, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.  ·             SBPM Dean Susan Phillips was interviewed on CNBC and CNNfn discussing the current state of the U.S. economy.  ·             Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" discussing President Bush's State of the Union address call for Freedom Corps volunteers.  ·             Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, andHuman Behavior at GW's Elliott School, had an op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times titled “Ask Jordan to Take Over the Territories.”   ·             Dr. Richard Katz, professor of cardiology, was interviewed by "Medizine," one of the most frequented medical cardiology news Web sites.  ·             Mary Hatwood Futrell, dean of GW's Graduate School of Education and Human Development, was interviewed by WJLA-TV (Channel 7), on the University of California's interest in abolishing the SAT.  ·             Gordon Adams, director of security policy studies at GW's Elliott School was quoted in a New York Times article titled “Reprieve for the Pentagon Budget” stating that President Bush is risking a rerun of Reagan budget deficits with his military budget increases.  ·             Dr. Gary Simon with GW's infectious diseases department was interviewed about the flu by WTOP-AM radio. ·             Dr. Somchai Laowattana, professor of neurology, was interviewed about stroke and the flu vaccine by Reuters News.  ·             Dr. Craig Faulks, professor of orthopedic surgery, was featured on WTTG-TV's (Channel 5) segment "High Tech Health" discussing autologous chondrocyte implantation for damaged knee tissue. This new technology allows a surgeon to biopsy healthy cartilage from a patient and then use a biosurgical facility to grow millions of new cells for the patient. The cells are delivered to the hospital for surgical implantation in the knee.  ·             Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, professor of the Practice of International Affairs at GW's Elliott School, was interviewed on “Reporting on Foreign Affairs” at the Newseum Broadcast Studio.  Inderfurth was also interviewed by the BBC News Service about Afghani President Karzai’s visit to the U.S.    -GW-     ©2002 The George Washington University Office of University Relations, Washington, D.C. Contact gwnews@gwu.edu with questions and comments.