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April 19, 2018
Georgetown University School of Medicine faculty and staff members were honored at the 40th Annual Golden Apple Awards. This year's event was held on April 7 at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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April 16, 2018
The third-annual Heart of the Harvey, a night of plays, poetry, music and monologues celebrating the writing and performances of students, faculty, staff and alumni from across the university, was presented by the Operating Theatre on April 13 in the W. Proctor Harvey Clinical Teaching Amphitheater in the Medical-Dental Building.
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April 15, 2018
With live music, a silent auction, pie- and donut-eating contests, sumo wrestling, superheroes, speeches, head shaving and more, the 2018 St. Baldrick’s fundraiser, organized by the School of Medicine in support of pediatric cancer research, was more festive than ever.
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April 12, 2018
Barbara M. Bayer, PhD, delivered the “Life of Learning” address at the 2018 Spring Faculty Convocation, where she spoke about how showing up and doing her job opened doors in her career.
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April 10, 2018
For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.
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March 29, 2018
Georgetown University Medical Center is launching two programs that will teach the next generation of health care providers and administrators about the ethics and moral theology that guide Catholic health systems.
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March 29, 2018
On March 22, 45 Health Justice Scholars from the Georgetown University School of Medicine were joined by students from Georgetown University Law Center on Capitol Hill for Health Justice Week 2018 to advocate for legislation to end long-term homelessness, provide maternity care for women, support veteran health through telemedicine, and develop school-based health centers.
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March 29, 2018
As associate director of clinical research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of medical oncology and pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, leads a team of researchers in studying thymic carcinoma, also known as cancer of the thymus.
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March 16, 2018
Match Day for the School of Medicine Class of 2018 was filled with suspense, joy and celebration as students, surrounded by friends, family, classmates and instructors, found out which residency programs accepted them to continue their medical training.
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March 13, 2018
Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosted a screening of the film "Bending the Arc," about the founding of the NGO Partners in Health, on March 7. One of the film's subjects, Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, now president of the World Bank, was present for a discussion afterward.
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March 12, 2018
While Georgetown students were on spring break, about 150 high school students and teachers from 26 local schools in the greater Washington metropolitan area came to campus March 8 and 9 for the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.
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March 1, 2018
The Cura Personalis Fellowship, an innovative formal mentorship program at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pairs clinicians with students to support students' professional identity formation and well-being throughout their medical school journey.
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February 27, 2018
A new collaboration between Georgetown University and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in Frederick, Maryland, aims to expand both institutions’ research and training missions in the biomedical sciences.
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February 23, 2018
As associate dean for assessment and educational scholarship, Carrie Chen, MD, PhD, is helping Georgetown University School of Medicine continue developing a medical school experience that both supports and educates students.
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February 16, 2018
Guinevere Eden, D.Phil., director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University Medical Center, will start a four-year study to investigate a potential link between the reading disability dyslexia and math disability dyscalculia.
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February 16, 2018
As a part of an intensive weeklong class on nutrition and patient health, members of the School of Medicine Class of 2021 completed a range of projects, including submitting recipes for a cookbook, that encouraged them to think about the many connections between diet and health.
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February 14, 2018
Diversity in medicine, microaggressions and the state of immigration in the U.S. were among the topics discussed at “The Voice: Medical Edition - Candid Consciousness versus Silent Protests,” an event held on February 7 to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and reaffirm the university’s dedication to cura personalis.
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January 31, 2018
For Charles Holmes, MD, MPH, the inaugural faculty co-director for the new Center for Global Health and Quality at Georgetown University Medical Center and visiting associate professor of medicine at its School of Medicine, the common denominator and driving force in his career has been tackling the big questions facing the local and global health communities.
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January 30, 2018
With collaboration from teaching faculty across the campus, Georgetown University will launch the new master’s in aging & health program in this fall. The new program goes beyond geriatrics to the study of aging well in today’s society.
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January 21, 2018
At a lunchtime talk hosted by the Inmate Wellness Interest Group (IWIG) on January 17, Dontrell “Trell” Britton spoke about his journey from prison to a career as a personal trainer and some of the challenges former felons face.
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January 21, 2018
For the second year in a row, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion partnered with Georgetown Arts and Medicine to host “What Makes You?”, a celebration of the diverse perspectives, identities and artistic talents of the Georgetown University School of Medicine community — faculty, students and staff alike.
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January 21, 2018
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, spoke to students on January 11 about her journey on behalf of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to camps in Bangladesh housing Rohingya refugees.
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January 4, 2018
Georgetown researchers awarded a cooperative agreement for post-Ebola outbreak recovery and rebuilding efforts in the West African nation of Guinea assess their successes and lessons learned.
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December 11, 2017
Achievements of female faculty members were recognized December 7 at the Georgetown Women in Medicine Annual Awards Ceremony and Reception.
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December 11, 2017
More than 300 registrants from academia, government and industry attended the 6th Annual Big Data in Biomedicine Symposium, which was hosted by the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics.
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December 10, 2017
Nearly 300 medical professionals, patients, caregivers and advocates attended the 8th Annual Ruesch Center Symposium on December 1, listening to lectures on topics including precision medicine, immunotherapy, proton therapy and molecular imaging.
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December 8, 2017
Jeanne Ruesch received the Margaret L. Hodges Leadership Award at the 31st annual Lombardi Gala for her advocacy on behalf of research into pancreatic cancer and other cancers of the GI tract.
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December 8, 2017
On December 6, family members and former colleagues of the late Robert S. Ledley, DDS, a pioneer of medical informatics, gathered to celebrate a contribution made in his honor that will support biomedical education at Georgetown.
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November 21, 2017
Harold P. Freeman, MD, a champion of the poor and underserved, received the Cura Personalis Award and delivered the keynote address at this year's GUMC Fall Convocation on November 16.
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November 21, 2017
During the 10th Annual GUMC Fall Convocation on November 16, awards were presented to faculty and students in the School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies and the Biomedical Graduate Education program recognizing outstanding achievements in research, teaching and service.
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November 21, 2017
The colloquium held on November 16 as part of this year's GUMC Fall Convocation brought together Georgetown faculty members to discuss the theme “Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities.”
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November 3, 2017
More than 80 medical students took advantage of the opportunity to give back to the community by participating in the School of Medicine’s Day of Service this year.
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November 21, 2017
Close to 700 Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center supporters turned out for the 31st annual Lombardi Gala in Washington on November 18 as the cancer center honored a philanthropist, a researcher and a broadcast journalist.
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November 3, 2017
Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named to the Dr. Scholl Chair of Medical Oncology, a fully endowed professorship that supports the work of a distinguished physician, educator and researcher making extraordinary contributions to cancer research and education as well as patient care.
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November 20, 2017
MedStar Health has named Louis M. Weiner, MD, as director of its MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute. Weiner will serve in this capacity while also remaining director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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October 4, 2017
While the HPV vaccine has been a game changer, recent research by Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, may lead to another advance by treating women already infected with HPV and a precancerous condition that often leads to the development of cervical cancer.
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November 2, 2017
G. William Rebeck, a professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center and director of Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, is the recipient of a 2017 President's Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers.
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October 17, 2017
The 10th Annual Gift of Life breakfast, held October 10, brought together more than 200 supporters of the Capital Breast Care Center to celebrate the community-based program and its mission and honor patient navigation pioneer and surgical oncologist Harold P. Freeman, MD.
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October 13, 2017
A recent change to the way patients are served at the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC) has staff members hopeful that they will now be able to reach more women than ever before.
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October 18, 2017
Students in the Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) program study a diverse range of topics including biohazardous threat agents & emerging infectious diseases, biostatistics, neuroscience and more. So when BGE holds their annual Student Research Day, the presentations run the gamut.
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October 5, 2017
This November, the work of Harold P. Freeman, MD, as a patient advocate, surgical oncologist, researcher and national leader will be recognized with the Cura Personalis Award, Georgetown University Medical Center’s highest honor.
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October 5, 2017
To answer the research questions that Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, was interested in asking, he required a team of researchers knowledgeable in biostatistics, health finance and economics, public policy and law. He was able to find those experts at Georgetown.
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September 28, 2017
Earlier this year, Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, MACP, joined the faculty at Georgetown University as the inaugural André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, with appointments in both the department of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the department of philosophy at Georgetown College.
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September 25, 2017
Rebecca Riggins, PhD, is the first recipient of a new Partners in Research award worth $100,000.
