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AAKOMA Project Spotlights Mental Health Disparities in Minority Youth

When it comes to treating mental health, Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc, is a firm believer that race matters. She directs a project that aims to reduce mental health…

April 16, 2014

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Nursing, Medical Students Train Side-by-Side in Emergency Scenarios

Medical and nursing students do not often have the opportunity to learn side-by-side at the patient’s bedside, but thanks to a unique pilot education project that…

April 11, 2014

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Student-driven Triathlon Benefits Hoya Clinic

Thirty-two competitors swam, biked and ran for a cause during the 14th annual IronMed Charity Triathlon, which raised more than $10,000 to benefit the Hoya Clinic. The triathlon…

April 11, 2014

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White House Expert: Global Health is National Security Issue

Global health security must be elevated to a high priority around the world to successfully combat pandemics such as avian flu, White House national security expert Elizabeth…

April 10, 2014

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Researchers Hope to Make Lung Cancer Screening a ‘Teachable Moment’

A Georgetown University Medical Center researcher is launching a study she hopes will provide an opportunity for health care providers to connect with long-term smokers by…

April 10, 2014

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Ninth Annual Women & Wine Event Raises Record Funds for Breast Cancer

More than 400 women gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington on Tuesday, April 1 for the Ninth Annual Women & Wine event benefitting the Nina Hyde Center for Breast…

April 4, 2014

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Female Medical Students Learn, Network through American Medical Women’s Association

MARCH 31, 2014—Approximately 60 women medical students from Georgetown’s School of Medicine joined around 400 students, physicians and other health professionals at…

April 1, 2014

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Georgetown Goes Bald for a Cause on St. Baldrick's Day

MARCH 30, 2014 — Georgetown University Medical Center faculty, staff, students, parents and siblings came together for St. Baldrick’s Day to go bald to show…

March 29, 2014

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New Immunological Insights Transforming Transplant Medicine

MARCH 28, 2014—Sixty years ago, the first successful live donor kidney transplant procedure was performed in Boston between a man and his twin brother. Since then, kidney…

March 28, 2014

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Medical Students Meet Their Match

MARCH 27, 2014 — In the life of a medical student, there aren’t many days more important than Match Day. Every year at noon on the same day, medical students across…

March 26, 2014