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CBCC Honors Patient Navigation Pioneer at Gift of Life Breakfast
(October 17, 2017) — At the 10th Annual Gift of Life breakfast, more than 200 supporters of the Capital Breast Care Center gathered at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel to celebrate the community-based program and its mission — providing patient navigation services and access to breast cancer screenings to all women, regardless of their […]
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CBCC Patient Navigators Help Women Overcome Obstacles to Health Care Access
A recent change to the way patients are served at the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC) has staff members hopeful that they will now be able to reach more women than ever before.
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Dr. Harold P. Freeman to Receive Cura Personalis Award
This November, the work of Harold P. Freeman, MD, as a patient advocate, surgical oncologist, researcher and national leader will be recognized with the Cura Personalis Award, Georgetown University Medical Center’s highest honor.
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Al-Refaie Leads Multidisciplinary Research Team
To answer the research questions that Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, was interested in asking, he required a team of researchers knowledgeable in biostatistics, health finance and economics, public policy and law. He was able to find those experts at Georgetown.
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Schlegel Strives to Create Another Cervical Cancer Game Changer
While the HPV vaccine has been a game changer, recent research by Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, may lead to another advance by treating women already infected with HPV and a precancerous condition that often leads to the development of cervical cancer.
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Dr. Daniel Sulmasy: Bridging Medicine and Philosophy
Earlier this year, Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, MACP, joined the faculty at Georgetown University as the inaugural André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, with appointments in both the department of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the department of philosophy at Georgetown College.
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Partners in Research Funds New $100,000 Research Breakthrough Award
Rebecca Riggins, PhD, is the first recipient of a new Partners in Research award worth $100,000.
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Georgetown Women In Medicine Celebrates Women in Leadership at Welcome Reception
It was standing room only at the annual Georgetown Women in Medicine Fall Welcome Reception earlier this month as the organization’s leaders set the tone and priorities for the academic year ahead.
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Color Field Pioneer Brings Original Art to Georgetown Lombardi Atrium
The walls of the Lombardi Atrium are newly adorned with Frieze, an original site-specific collection of eleven framed, color-saturated monotypes by Sam Gilliam, an internationally renowned artist.
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Doctors and Lawyers Speak Out for Health Justice Alliance
At Doctors and Lawyers Speak Out, representatives from Georgetown’s medical and law centers came together to celebrate the launch of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance, a medical-legal partnership dedicated to training future generations of lawyers and medical professionals to work together to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families.
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