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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 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 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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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 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 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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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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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.