All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Getting it ‘Morally Right’

  (September 18, 2019) — The TV advertisements for DNA testing are ubiquitous: there’s one with the young man who thought he was part German until genetic testing led him to trade his lederhosen for a kilt, and there’s a woman pictured taking exciting trips to various parts of the world — from Scandinavia to West […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: bioethics, genetic testing, medical ethics

• Celebrating National Postdoc Appreciation Week

  Reiko Asano, PhD, RN Reiko Asano, PhD, RN, is a postdoc in the department of professional nursing practice studying palliative care in heart failure. Reiko was inspired to study cardiovascular disease after caring for patients suffering from high symptom burden and repeated hospitalizations. Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD, is […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, epilepsy, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, neuroscience, pharmacology

• Riegel Named Leader of Biomedical Graduate Education

  (September 4, 2019) — The Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) program, home to a robust variety of PhD, master’s and certificate programs, has a new leader. Research oncologist Anna Tate Riegel, PhD, has been named senior associate dean of BGE following the retirement of Barbara Bayer, PhD, who led the program for eight years. Riegel joined […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, Georgetown Lombardi, new faculty appointment

• Maguire-Zeiss Named New Chair of Department of Neuroscience

  (August 29, 2019) — Since joining Georgetown’s faculty in 2007, Kathy Maguire-Zeiss, PhD, has taken on many roles. In addition to being a professor of neuroscience, she directs the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN), the Center for Neural Injury and Recovery, the master’s degree program in integrative neuroscience and the T32 Training Program in Neural […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: brain, mind, neuroscience, new faculty appointment

• Health Economist to Serve as Interim Dean of School of Nursing & Health Studies

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: new faculty appointment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Friends of Lombardi Engaging Next Generation Leaders in Fight Against Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, philanthropy

• Christopher J. King Named New Chair of Health Systems Administration

  (August 29, 2019) — A former MedStar Health executive with a focus on public health and social justice is the new chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies. Christopher King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE, is also an associate professor in the department and director of the Master […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: new faculty appointment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Human Science Professor Becomes First Holder of Dekkers Endowed Chair

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: new faculty appointment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Pre-Orientation Program Connects Health, Justice, and Values

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• ARCHES, GEP Participants Present Research Projects

  (August 16, 2019) — After spending their summer learning about careers in medicine, participants in two pipeline programs run by the School of Medicine Office of Diversity and Inclusion presented their capstone projects, including tobacco use in young adults, social isolation in stem cell transplant patients, mental health disparities and more.  United by their interest […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: ARCHES Program, community outreach, diversity, GEP Program, medical education, School of Medicine