All Posts: GUMC Stories

• As Schering Professor of Pharmacology, Kellar Brings Decades of Research Experience

  (January 10, 2019) — In 1966, the Schering-Plough Corporation and Foundation established the first-ever endowed professorship at Georgetown University, in memory of Schering-Plough’s late chairman Francis Cabell Brown (L’23). Currently held by Kenneth Kellar, PhD, the Schering Foundation Professorship in Pharmacology is the oldest endowed professorship at the university, where it has had a transformative impact. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, endowed professorships, pharmacology, Schering Foundation Professorship in Pharmacology

• Giving Patients A Voice in Breast Cancer Research

  (January 4, 2019) — Soon after Hillary Stires, PhD, came to Georgetown Lombardi as a postdoctoral fellow, she started a grant application and asked for feedback from the Georgetown Breast Cancer Advocates (GBCA), a volunteer group of breast cancer survivors dedicated to supporting and promoting breast cancer research. Her experience was transformative. After Stires presented her plan […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi

• Movement for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Program

  (January 4, 2019) — Julia Langley, faculty director of the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program (AHP), Carlo Tornatore, MD, director of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) and Erika Mitchell, DNP, FNP-BC, researcher and director of nurse practitioners in the department of neurology at MedStar Georgetown University […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, MS, multiple sclerosis, music and movement, neurology

• Adams-Campbell, Internationally Renowned Cancer Epidemiologist, Named a 2018 Washingtonian of the Year

  (December 19, 2018) — Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, professor of oncology and associate director for minority health and health disparities research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was named a 2018 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine. The annual honor is bestowed on individuals who contribute to the city’s health, welfare, community service and cultural richness, and who have generally made […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, population health

• Ruesch Center and OncLive Recognize Former VP Biden at the Luminary Awards

  (December 9, 2018) — Former Vice President Joe Biden was among those who were recognized for improving the lives of patients with gastrointestinal cancer at the Second Annual Luminary Awards, hosted by the Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and OncLive. “Each of these recipients have made transformative […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, gastrointestinal cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Luminary Awards, Ruesch Center

• GWIM Honors ‘Role Models’ in Medicine

  (December 9, 2018) — At their annual awards ceremony and reception, Georgetown Women in Medicine (GWIM) recognized women on the faculty at GUMC for their accomplishments in mentoring, leadership and more. “Each year, GWIM recognizes the outstanding achievements of our women faculty through specific awards and honoring the accomplishments of women faculty will further our efforts […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Women in Medicine, School of Medicine, women in STEM

• Georgetown Team Finds Richness in Collaboration with Jesuit Clinic in Liberia

  (December 7, 2018) — The team from Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) didn’t know what to expect when they set out in early November for Caldwell, Liberia, to conduct a three-day workshop for local midwives and health care workers. What they knew: that the scars of a protracted civil war and a massive […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Center for Translational Imaging to Capitalize on Georgetown’s History and Expertise in Imaging Science

  (December 7, 2018) — The ability to peer inside the body to learn if something has gone wrong and if so, what, is one of the critical pillars of health care today, but as a team of researchers have long realized, the field of imaging provides a powerful way to reveal unimagined clues to better understand […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, Center for Translational Imaging, neuroimaging, partnerships

• Experts and D.C. Residents Come Together for Breast Cancer Community Forum

  (November 27, 2018) — District of Columbia residents shared their stories, concerns and fears at Environment & Breast Cancer: Transforming Data Into Action, a community forum organized by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center to explore the impacts of the environment on breast cancer in communities like Washington’s Wards 7 and 8. “We can more easily identify what’s […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, community outreach, health disparities, population health

• Lynce Receives Potter Award for Early Career Research

  (November 21, 2018) — In the ten years since coming to the U.S. from Portugal to complete her medical training, Filipa Lynce, MD, has conducted clinical trials to establish safe and effective cancer treatments for minority patients, including African Americans and Latinas, and studied the genetic differences in cancers among patients of different ethnicities. Now a medical […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, university awards