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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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Georgetown Alzheimer’s Researcher Has “BrightFocus”
(June 12, 2016) — Xiong Jiang, PhD, believes there is a way to identify patients at an early enough stage in Alzheimer’s disease — well before clinical symptoms crop up — that they could be effectively treated with novel agents. His ideas have earned him a 3-year $300,000 grant from the BrightFocus Foundation, and on […]
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Georgetown School of Medicine Student Selected as 2016 Tillman Scholar
Jeremy Marx, a U.S. Army veteran and incoming student at Georgetown University School of Medicine, has been selected as a 2016 Tillman Scholar.
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Seeking guidance for clinicians facing a question of human rights
Should a physician, after helping deliver a child to a women whose genitals had been cut and vulva stitched together — an outlawed procedure generally called female genital mutilation or FGM — close her up again? A Georgetown physician, ethicist and lawyer explore this complex moral problem.
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Rebecca Katz: Creating public health infrastructure to handle pandemics — before they occur
Meet Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH. She and her global health team are watching with more than keen interest the way the U.S. is positioning itself to handle a potential Zika outbreak this summer.
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Women and Men for Others: Healing A Voluntary Military
Georgetown’s newest physician-officers talk about the challenges and benefits of military service.
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For Service of Others
After the best and brightest of the Class of 2016 were recognized for their exemplary work on Friday, they were quickly reminded that they would need to remain selfless to succeed in medicine.
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