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The White Coat Ceremony and the Making of a Doctor
“Something is going to happen here that’s magical.” With those words, Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., dean for medical education at Georgetown University School…
February 19, 2014
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Itzhak Brook to Give Medical Ethics Lecture at American Academy of Otolaryngology Meeting
Itzhak Brook, M.D., M.Sc., will deliver the John Conley, M.D. Lecture on Medical Ethics at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Launches New Course in Regulatory Science
Georgetown University’s Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, a joint effort between the university and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),…
February 19, 2014
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Victoria Shanmugam: Investigator receives $1.9M NIH Grant to Study Wound Healing
The National Institutes of Health has awarded an R01 grant in the amount of $1.9 million over five years to Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in support of Victoria…
February 19, 2014
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GUMC Microbiologist Organizes Preeminent International Meeting on Hepatitis B
“Substantial advances” in hepatitis B research were presented at the 28th Annual International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, says John L.…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Lombardi Director Addresses Cancer Screening Challenges, Racial Disparities at Legislative Forum
It’s a simple enough premise: cancer screening saves lives. And yet, while this fact is not in dispute, it’s only when one scratches the surface of the screening…
February 19, 2014
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5th Annual GUMC Convocation – Call for Award Nominations
It’s a fairly new tradition — the Georgetown University Medical Center Convocation. Now in its 5th year, we begin preparing once again to celebrate academic prowess…
February 19, 2014
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Nurse Presents Research on Nursing, AIDS Pandemic
Ella Pritchard Curry, PhD, RN, ACRN, who has been a nurse for 22 years in the hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, presented Sept. 19,,…
February 19, 2014
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Marc D. Schwartz: Genetic Tests Guide Tough Treatment Decisions
As a student at the University of New York, Stony Brook, Marc D. Schwartz, Ph.D. envisioned a career as a psycho-therapist who occasionally dabbled in research. “What did…
February 19, 2014
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Study Examines Curriculum Infusion’s Impact on Care
Joan Burggraf Riley (NHS’76, G’97), MS, MSN, FNP-BC, FAAN, assistant professor of human science and nursing, and Edilma L. Yearwood, PhD, PMHCNS, BC, FAAN,…
February 19, 2014