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Honoring an Advocate for LGBTQ Health Education
The Hoya MedAlliance presented Andrea Singer, MD, with this year’s Faculty Lambda Award, which honors a faculty member at the School of Medicine for their enduring commitment to Georgetown’s LGBTQ community.
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Inspiration and Celebration at the 13th Annual Women & Wine
The 13th-annual Women & Wine event, which took place on April 18, raised over $630,000 for the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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40th Annual Golden Apple Awards Presented
Georgetown University School of Medicine faculty and staff members were honored at the 40th Annual Golden Apple Awards. This year’s event was held on April 7 at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Making Space for the Soul at the Heart of the Harvey
The third-annual Heart of the Harvey, a night of plays, poetry, music and monologues celebrating the writing and performances of students, faculty, staff and alumni from across the university, was presented by the Operating Theatre on April 13 in the W. Proctor Harvey Clinical Teaching Amphitheater in the Medical-Dental Building.
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Supporting St. Baldrick’s with Superheroes, Sumo Wrestling and More
With live music, a silent auction, pie- and donut-eating contests, sumo wrestling, superheroes, speeches, head shaving and more, the 2018 St. Baldrick’s fundraiser, organized by the School of Medicine in support of pediatric cancer research, was more festive than ever.
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Bayer Extols the Virtues of “Showing Up and Doing Your Job”
Barbara M. Bayer, PhD, delivered the “Life of Learning” address at the 2018 Spring Faculty Convocation, where she spoke about how showing up and doing her job opened doors in her career.
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Advancing Plastic Surgery Practice and Research
For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.
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Research in a Minute: Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD
As associate director of clinical research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of medical oncology and pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, leads a team of researchers in studying thymic carcinoma, also known as cancer of the thymus.
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Hoyas on the Hill: Health Justice Scholars Advocate for Change
On March 22, 45 Health Justice Scholars from the Georgetown University School of Medicine were joined by students from Georgetown University Law Center on Capitol Hill for Health Justice Week 2018 to advocate for legislation to end long-term homelessness, provide maternity care for women, support veteran health through telemedicine, and develop school-based health centers.
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New Programs Offer Training in Catholic Clinical Ethics
Georgetown University Medical Center is launching two programs that will teach the next generation of health care providers and administrators about the ethics and moral theology that guide Catholic health systems.
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