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Adams-Campbell Joins the National Human Genome Research Institute Board of Scientific Counselors
Georgetown Lombardi’s Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD has begun serving on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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Georgetown Readies Launch of a New Biomedical PhD Program
GUMC has offered a master’s degree in biostatistics since 2006. Now, given the success of that program and the growing need for professionals with more advanced training in the field, the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics is preparing to launch a new PhD program in biostatistics.
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Ingredients for Patient Safety: Teamwork and Communication
Third year medical students and newly-minted nurses from MedStar Georgetown collaborated during a day-long event devoted to patient safety.
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Celebrating a “landmark” gene editing technique
More than two decades ago, Todd Waldman published a study on gene editing in Cancer Research. It has been selected as a “landmark study” and will be republished in the journal’s 75th anniversary addition.
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Advice to medical students: Fill your heads while opening your hearts
By the end of the first semester of medical school, many students feel overwhelmed. This mind body medicine elective offers tangible skills to help students care for themselves.
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Class of 2020 Begins Its Journey In Medicine
(August 8, 2016) — They come from 31 states and nine countries including Canada, Korea, China, Ethiopia, Israel, Japan, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Some come from the U.S. military. And others come from a long tradition of medicine. No matter the path they were on, the 196 students that make up the Georgetown University School of […]
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A Community Staple, Student-Run Camp Enjoys Successful Fourth Year
The HoyaMed Summer Sports campers enjoyed fun games like red light, green light and freeze tag, participated in a competitive field day and rubbed elbows with DC athletes.
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Inspired by the Women She Has Studied for Decades
Mary Young, MD, who is newly retired, reflects upon the experiences that brought her to medical school and how they shaped the physician-researcher she came to be.
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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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