Emphasizing service to others, we are dedicated to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis, “care of the whole person.” Our academic health system partnership with MedStar Health strengthens our work and expands its reach.
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About the Medical Center
As a top academic health and science center in the United States, Georgetown University Medical Center seeks to provide, in a synergistic fashion, excellence in education — training physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, as well as biomedical scientists — and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research collaboration, enhancing our basic science and translational biomedical research capacity in order to improve human health.
Education and Research at GUMC
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Guided by the Jesuit tradition of cura personalis, care of the whole person, the School of Medicine educates a diverse student body to become knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate physicians and biomedical scientists who are dedicated to the health needs of our society. Our medical education program trains future physicians to be people for others, while our master’s, PhD, certificate and postdoctoral programs in Biomedical Graduate Education equip trainees with knowledge and experience in interdisciplinary basic and translational biomedical science, health science, data informatics, policy and industry science.
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Georgetown University Berkley School of Nursing
The Berkley School of Nursing builds on a 120-year tradition of educational excellence at the professional, advanced practice, and doctoral levels that is infused by our Jesuit values, with a focus on research and scholarship.
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Georgetown University School of Health
Georgetown’s School of Health provides a home for scholars and students to work collaboratively to address human health and well-being from various perspectives, with a focus on creating a more equitable, evidence-driven and values-based health care system.
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Biomedical and Health Sciences Research
Biomedical and Health Sciences Research at the medical center comprises a broad continuum of research, from basic science to population studies. Translational research — applying basic discoveries and translating them into therapeutics and diagnostics that directly impact patient care — is a driving force.
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Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
As the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in D.C., Georgetown Lombardi seeks to prevent, treat and cure cancers by linking scientific discovery, expert and compassionate patient care, quality education and partnership with the community — guided by the principle of cura personalis.
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MedStar Health
Georgetown University and MedStar Health enjoy a clinical and academic partnership first established in 2000. The MedStar Health System is a 10-hospital network, including MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and a very large and diverse ambulatory network. MedStar Health also is responsible for continuing medical education and graduate medical education (the education of residents, interns and fellows).
National Laboratories
We maintain research partnerships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory for an NIH funded Clinical Translational Science Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a biotechnology master’s program and research, and Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
John Theurer Cancer Center
John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in Bergen County, New Jersey, is part of a National Cancer Institute-recognized consortium with Georgetown Lombardi.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science
GHUCCTS is a multi-institutional consortium of medical research institutions forged from a desire to promote clinical research and translational science. Consortium members are: Georgetown University, Howard University, MedStar Health Research Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Washington VA Medical Center.