All Posts: GUMC Stories

• 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

• The Arts Through the Lens of Health Care at Georgetown Lombardi

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, Georgetown Lombardi, School of Medicine

• Katie Couric is the Inaugural Speaker at Georgetown’s Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture

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

• School of Medicine Class of 2023 Takes First Step in Medical Career

  (August 4, 2019) — In front of loved ones and friends who made up a standing room-only crowd in Gaston Hall, the Georgetown University School of Medicine Class of 2023 took its first step toward joining the medical profession by donning their white coats, collecting their stethoscopes and reciting the Hippocratic Oath. The 203 classmates […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, School of Medicine, White Coat Ceremony