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Rosemary K. Sokas: Uniting Reality, Policy, Academe, and Safety
The career of Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, has taken a sort of hopscotch path: boots-on-the- ground scientific investigation among low-wage, high-risk worker communities to…
February 19, 2014
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CRAs Add Strength to GUMC Staff
An effort started just over a year ago to increase the number of certified research administrators (CRA) at Georgetown University Medical Center continues to pay off. Three more…
February 19, 2014
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Leaders in Biomedical Informatics Explore Vast Potential at Inaugural Symposium
Informatics has become an essential component of modern medicine. Properly employed, it is the key that allows us to unravel the secrets of genomic and molecular data…
February 19, 2014
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Capital Breast Care Center Recognized for Efforts to Combat Breast Cancer in the District
The Council of the District of Columbia has recognized Capital Breast Care Center, a community screening and education program of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center,…
February 19, 2014
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Panel Addresses Challenges of Cancer Prevention
A half-century ago, “Stop smoking!” was the basis of our nation’s nascent cancer prevention program – essentially the product of the 1964 Surgeon…
February 19, 2014
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International Health Professor to Serve on WHO Group
A Georgetown University professor has been invited to serve on a World Health Organization group focused on neglected tropical diseases. Margaret Baker, PhD, assistant professor…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Hosts Complementary and Integrative Medicine Conference
With more than a third of all adults using some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the need to standardize and integrate CAM into conventional medical and…
February 19, 2014
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HSA Graduate Students Go Beyond Coursework
An extracurricular effort by six graduate students at the School of Nursing & Health Studies sought to develop an implementation plan for a new emergency department wait time…
February 19, 2014
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Moving Closer to the Cure – One Patient at a Time
Just 40 years ago, a patient with a cancer diagnosis often had few options and little hope. Today, there are close to 12 million survivors. These advances have been made possible…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Medical Students Support Veterans’ Health
In recognition of Veterans Day, Georgetown University School of Medicine joined ranks with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and more than 100 U.S. medical…
February 19, 2014