All Posts: GUMC Stories

  • Going Native – In Language Learning

    How does a person learn to speak French like a Frenchman or Spanish like a Spaniard? Most people think the best way would be just to live in those countries, immersed in the native tongue. But studies

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  • AcademyHealth President and CEO Speaks on Health Policy

    A nationally recognized health policy researcher came to Georgetown University Feb. 29 to address students, faculty, and staff. Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP, president and CEO of AcademyHealth, sp

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  • Gene With A Thousand Faces

    Can a single human gene be responsible for some forms of human obesity and mental retardation, not to mention mood disorders and, possibly, the brain devastation seen in Huntington’s and Fragile X dis

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  • Research: An Antidote to GI Cancers

    Crucial to life but also a hideout for deadly cancers, the gastrointestinal system includes vital organs such as the stomach, colon, pancreas, liver, bile ducts and gall bladder. Georgetown researcher

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  • Gaining Human Insight Via A Book Club

    Few doctors in the middle of a fellowship make time to read any book besides a textbook. Which is why Bruce Cheson, M.D., suggests they set aside their usual reading material and join his new “book cl

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  • NHS Student Wins AAHD Scholarship

    A Georgetown undergraduate recently won a competitive American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) scholarship. Nancy Oduro (NHS’13), a health care management & policy major at the School of N

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  • Transforming Medical Education

    At the inaugural Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) - MedStar Georgetown University Hospital medical education ground rounds on February 9, 2012, Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of

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  • Students Teach Anatomy

    Last spring, Carlos Suarez-Quian, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, received an e-mail from Deepak Kumar, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the

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  • Some Men Lack Receptor for Snuggling, Scientists Say

    If your husband doesn’t want to snuggle with you on Valentine’s Day, blame science – a Georgetown researcher says many men have a brain receptor that doesn’t bind well to the “snuggling hormone.” “For

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  • Newborn Welcoming Committee

    Week 7, Third Year. Time to transition from a pediatric outpatient experience to Labor and Delivery (L&D). Of all the clerkships awaiting me during my third year of medical school, OB/GYN is probably

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