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What Scott Kelly’s Year in Space Might Mean for a Mars Mission

GUMC Update sat down with Albert J. Fornace, Jr., MD, who holds the molecular cancer research chair at Georgetown Lombardi, to discuss his work on cosmic radiation and potential…

March 4, 2016

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Exploring the Risks of Radiation Five Years After Fukushima

After being interviewed by dozens of news outlets during the Fukushima meltdown, Tim Jorgensen, PhD, MPH, realized most people do not understand radiation in a way that allows…

March 3, 2016

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Summit Explores “Unanswered Questions” in Female Concussion Research

Male and female head injuries appear very differently – in symptoms, treatment and recovery. Exploring those gender differences was the subject of the International Summit…

March 1, 2016

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Georgetown Hosts Research Summit on Concussions in Females

When physicians, researchers and scientists gather at Georgetown University February 27-28 for the International Summit on Female Concussion and TBI (traumatic brain injury),…

February 19, 2016

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“Why Black Doctors?” Tackles Race in Medicine

School of Medicine students brought together an expert panel to discuss the importance of black.…

February 19, 2016

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Third Interprofessional Education Day Focuses on Implicit Bias, Health Disparities

For the first time since its inception in 2014, Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day attendees were asked to complete three modules of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a…

February 5, 2016

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School of Medicine Students Visit White House Medical Unit

While many in the D.C. area were still digging out after a weekend blizzard, several students from Georgetown University School of Medicine were taking a tour of the White House…

February 5, 2016

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Understanding resiliencies of healthy aging among HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay or bisexual men in the US

With a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Michael Plankey, PhD, is working to identify factors that contribute…

February 3, 2016

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Georgetown Experts Laud World Health Organization Meeting on Zika Virus

The announcement that the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the Zika virus Monday comes only a day after two…

January 28, 2016

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Lombardi Cancer Center Joins Call for Increased Vaccination Against HPV

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the other 68 National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated cancer centers in issuing a joint statement urging increased…

January 28, 2016