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White House Expert: Global Health is National Security Issue
Global health security must be elevated to a high priority around the world to successfully combat pandemics such as avian flu, White House national security expert Elizabeth Cameron, PhD, told a Georgetown audience at an April 9 symposium.
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Researchers Hope to Make Lung Cancer Screening a ‘Teachable Moment’
A Georgetown University Medical Center researcher is launching a study she hopes will provide an opportunity for health care providers to connect with long-term smokers by pairing smoking cessation counseling with lung cancer screening.
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Ninth Annual Women & Wine Event Raises Record Funds for Breast Cancer
More than 400 women gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington on Tuesday, April 1 for the Ninth Annual Women & Wine event benefitting the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Female Medical Students Learn, Network through American Medical Women’s Association
MARCH 31, 2014—Approximately 60 women medical students from Georgetown’s School of Medicine joined around 400 students, physicians and other health professionals at the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) annual conference in Washington this month.
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Georgetown Goes Bald for a Cause on St. Baldrick's Day
MARCH 30, 2014 — Georgetown University Medical Center faculty, staff, students, parents and siblings came together for St. Baldrick’s Day to go bald to show pediatric cancer patients that they aren’t alone in their fight. The event raises funds for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, with a portion of proceeds benefiting pediatric cancer research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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New Immunological Insights Transforming Transplant Medicine
MARCH 28, 2014—Sixty years ago, the first successful live donor kidney transplant procedure was performed in Boston between a man and his twin brother. Since then, kidney transplants have become routine, and rapid advances in the field have paved the way for transplants of more complicated organs such as the brain, heart, lung and even intestine.
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Medical Students Meet Their Match
MARCH 27, 2014 — In the life of a medical student, there aren’t many days more important than Match Day. Every year at noon on the same day, medical students across the country find out where they wil
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GUMC Professor Assumes Presidency of Society of Interventional Radiology
MARCH 26, 2014—James B. Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR (M’80), professor of radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center and chairman of the department of radiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is the new president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). He assumed the one-year term March 26 during SIR’s 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego.
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Team Georgetown Lends Voice to Major Colon Cancer Awareness Event
MARCH 25, 2014—In its largest showing ever, Georgetown University and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) once again had a strong presence at the ninth annual Scope it Out 5K, hosted by the Chris4Life Colon Cancer Foundation on March 23 in downtown Washington.
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NHS Values Based Lecturer: 'Lift Up the Common Good'
A well-known member of the Sisters of Social Service encouraged future health professionals to remember values while caring for patients.
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