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Are African-Americans needlessly excluded from taking a new breast cancer therapy?
Filipa Lynce, MD, is concerned that her fellow oncologists may not be giving some African American patients with a common type of advanced breast cancer a new drug that can extend survival because of an assumption not yet tested.
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Kenneth Dretchen Retires
Dr. Dretchen officially retired from GUMC and the mission that he has been devoted to — although he isn’t leaving.
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Research on Preventing Student Burnout Presented at CENTILE Colloquium
Creating a “life vision” could promote resilience among medical students.
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Georgetown Medical Student Selected by American Society of Hematology for Minority Medical Student Award Program
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has selected Georgetown School of Medicine student Serina Lewis to take part in the 2016 Minority Medical Student Award Program.
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Three Georgetown Medical Students Chosen for NIH Medical Research Scholars Program
The National Institutes of Health has selected three Georgetown School of Medicine students for its 2016-2017 Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).
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Georgetown Joins Effort to Promote Science, Technology Education for Girls Worldwide
Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development is a founding partner of this international effort to help girls succeed.
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Georgetown School of Medicine Student Takes Seat on AMA Board of Trustees
Georgetown medical student Omar Z. Maniya, MBA, has been elected to the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees.
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Gulf War Illness: Looking Back to Move Forward
Georgetown University Medical Center and the Brookings Institution co-hosted “Desert Storm after 25 years: Confronting the Exposures of Modern Warfare” on June 17 to examine the history of GWI and discuss a way forward.
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Gostin Appointed to National Cancer Advisory Board
President Obama has tapped Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Professor and faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law to serve as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB). Gostin is also a professor of medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine.
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Anton Wellstein: Embracing Uncharted Territory
Anton Wellstein, MD, believes the path to developing targeted therapies for a variety of cancers is clearer today than ever before. And it’s a revolutionary laboratory advance that Georgetown researchers made in 2011 that is paving the path forward.
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