All Posts: GUMC Stories
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IPN Continues Tradition of Producing NSF Fellows
Two Interdisciplinary Program for Neuroscience (IPN) students at Georgetown have been named graduate fellows by the National Science Foundation. They are among 15 percent of applicants who received aw
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Georgetown Celebrates Election of First Jesuit Pope
Statement by Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia “On this joyous day, we offer our prayers of thanksgiving and celebration for the new Holy Father, Pope Francis. "This is an historic momen
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Medical Students Show Artistic Sides in Cancer Center Art Show
FEBRUARY 12, 2014 – Georgetown University medical students are showing off abilities that fall outside the scope of their educational careers. Thirteen students from Georgetown’s School of Medicine have contributed artwork to the annual Medical Student Art Show, on display throughout February at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Learning the Skills of Leadership
Over the last 16 years, nine women faculty members at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have participated in a yearlong intensive leadership boot camp designed to challenge them and their pr
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The Bioethics of the Bedside
On March 15, hundreds will gather in Georgetown’s Leavey Center to honor the life and work of 92-year-old Edmund Pellegrino, MD, MACP — a physician and scholar known as the “father” of bioethics in Am
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Breast Cancer Advocacy Group Bridges Gap Between Science and Patients
MARCH 6, 2013--For a few hours each month, a group of busy women set aside the demands of their professional and personal lives to gather in a conference room on the campus of Georgetown University Me
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Joining Forces to Improve Transplant Medicine
Surgeon Thomas Fishbein, MD, is on the cusp of solving a significant problem that he and all other transplant doctors face — the failure of transplanted abdominal organs. As executive director of the
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Strategic Planning Initiative: Engaging and Investing in the GUMC Vision
View the Strategic Planning Initiative homepage.
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Turning the Tide on Sexual Violence
How do you rehabilitate a country known as the “rape capital of the world”? According to Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, you do it one health care worker, one police officer, one judge at a time. The country
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Helping Transform Afghanistan
A trip to the United States and Georgetown University wouldn’t be complete for Afghan President Hamid Karzai without acknowledging Phyllis Magrab, PhD, director of the Georgetown University Center for
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