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Interdisciplinary Team of Students Garners Recognition at Public Health Bowl
During National Public Health Week, a team of undergraduate students from the School of Nursing & Health Studies competed in Saint Louis University’s Public Health Scholar Bowl.
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AAKOMA Project Spotlights Mental Health Disparities in Minority Youth
When it comes to treating mental health, Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc, is a firm believer that race matters. She directs a project that aims to reduce mental health disparities for youth through community-based participatory research, faith-based mental health promotion and other methods such as focus groups and surveys.
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Nursing, Medical Students Train Side-by-Side in Emergency Scenarios
Medical and nursing students do not often have the opportunity to learn side-by-side at the patient’s bedside, but thanks to a unique pilot education project that emphasizes interprofessional education, Georgetown students were able to do just that.
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Student-driven Triathlon Benefits Hoya Clinic
Thirty-two competitors swam, biked and ran for a cause during the 14th annual IronMed Charity Triathlon, which raised more than $10,000 to benefit the Hoya Clinic. The triathlon and a 5K run were held on Georgetown’s campus April 6.
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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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