Sara Gilgore

Washington, D.C.

Staff Reporter at Washington Business Journal

@WBJonline staff reporter covering health care, biotech and life sciences, and cannabis in the D.C.-metro area. @saragilgore for other sporadic stuff.

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GWU Hospital names interim head after CEO Kim Russo’s departure - Washington Business Journal

1 week ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

Kim Russo, the acute-care facility's CEO of nearly a decade, stepped away in late April.
CarrTech wins FDA green light for drug-injection product

2 weeks ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The startup's pharmacist founder hopes to begin taking orders by the first quarter of next year.
D.C. Council approves bill to ease CON requirements for hospitals, health care providers - Washington Business Journal

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The D.C. Council just knocked down a barricade for the District’s health systems and medical practices, and those that want to enter the city. The D.C. Council just knocked down a barricade for the District’s health systems and medical practices — and those that want to enter the city.
Whitman-Walker Health System loses NIH funding for biomedical research hub project - Washington Business Journal

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The National Institutes of Health has rescinded $1.4 million of a $2 million grant to Whitman-Walker Health System, putting construction of a biomedical research lab in Congress Heights in jeopardy. The health system — the entity within D.C.’s Whitman-Walker that encompasses a research institute, real estate division and foundation — had expected to start construction in the next month on the roughly $7.7 million project.
How McLean health care startup ShiftMed is helping hospitals save money - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

Listen to this article 4 minThe 6-year-old company, which connects health care provider organizations with clinical workers, aims to double its number of hospital clients over the next 18 months. McLean’s ShiftMed LLC is taking steps to capture more business in the health care staffing space, as hospitals search for new ways to both drive revenue and trim expenses to mitigate expected cuts to their funding.
How Inova Health System is using AI to lighten the load on doctors - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The Falls Church-based nonprofit says the tech will allow clinical provides to spend more time on patient care. Inova Health System is bringing a Pennsylvania company’s artificial-intelligence technology into its exam rooms, a move it says will lighten the load on its medical providers, and give them more bandwidth to focus strictly on care.
This Md. biotech wants to get a cancer treatment to patients. It just tapped an industry outsider as co-CEO. - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

Gaithersburg’s Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHPH) has brought in a new executive to spearhead the biotech’s business activity, freeing up its longtime leader, a cancer doctor and physician administrator, to focus on research and development. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Dr. Anatoly Dritschilo, is now one of two co-CEOs, and will oversee the clinical trials and scientific work required to get its lead candidate for an aggressive brain cancer to patients.
D.C. Council advances bill that would streamline, even eliminate CON requirements for health care organizations - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The bill aims to save providers costs and time with changes to the application process. The D.C. Council is advancing legislation that would streamline the regulatory process for hospitals and other health care entities within the city, including some types of providers looking to set up shop or expand.
Exclusive: Unity Health Care CEO Jessica Henderson Boyd to step down - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The departure comes at a pivotal juncture for the nonprofit and others like it. Dr. Jessica Henderson Boyd, president and CEO of Unity Health Care, is leaving the D.C. community clinic. Boyd, who joined Unity in 2019 as its chief medical officer and assumed her current role at the start of 2022, is taking a new position focused on health equity, she said in an interview, declining to disclose specifics.
Decades in, this Germantown biopharma is on the cusp of bringing its first product to market - Washington Business Journal

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Sara Gilgore

The FDA has agreed to review its application for a gene therapy that treats a rare respiratory disease. Nearly three decades after it was founded, Germantown biopharma Precigen Inc. has moved a step closer to bringing its first-ever product to market.

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Articles

GWU Hospital names interim head after CEO Kim Russo’s departure - Washington Business Journal

CarrTech wins FDA green light for drug-injection product

D.C. Council approves bill to ease CON requirements for hospitals, health care providers - Washington Business Journal

Whitman-Walker Health System loses NIH funding for biomedical research hub project - Washington Business Journal

How McLean health care startup ShiftMed is helping hospitals save money - Washington Business Journal

How Inova Health System is using AI to lighten the load on doctors - Washington Business Journal

This Md. biotech wants to get a cancer treatment to patients. It just tapped an industry outsider as co-CEO. - Washington Business Journal

D.C. Council advances bill that would streamline, even eliminate CON requirements for health care organizations - Washington Business Journal

Exclusive: Unity Health Care CEO Jessica Henderson Boyd to step down - Washington Business Journal

Decades in, this Germantown biopharma is on the cusp of bringing its first product to market - Washington Business Journal

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