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NHS Academic Council Raises Funds for Kenyan School
The Academic Council of the School of Nursing & Health Studies has continued its support of a Kenyan secondary school that educates students who have lost one or both parents…
February 19, 2014
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Service to Country Goes Beyond Military Duty for Dean Mitchell
Not long after the Persian Gulf War in 1991, U.S. military veterans returning from the overseas conflict reported medical problems ranging from fatigue and pain to respiratory…
February 19, 2014
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The Ides of Match XIII, Veni, Vidi, Vici
“The Ides of Match XIII, Veni, Vidi, Vici.” So read the back of the green t-shirts worn by Georgetown University School of Medicine’s class of 2013 on Match…
February 19, 2014
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Lombardi Research Days Highlights Vibrancy of Student Projects
The Fifteenth Annual Lombardi Research Days took place on March 7 and 8, 2013 in the Research Building of Georgetown University Medical Center, where hopeful students gathered to…
February 19, 2014
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GUMC Renames Bioethics Center in Honor of Dr. Edmund Pellegrino
Georgetown University Medical Cancer (GUMC) honored Edmund Pellegrino, MD, MACP, a physician and scholar known as a founder of contemporary medical and bioethics, with the formal…
February 19, 2014
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Eighth Annual Women & Wine Event Breaks Records
Over 400 of Washington, DC’s leading businesswomen and breast cancer advocates gathered on March 11, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown for the annual Women ; …
February 19, 2014
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Renowned Nurse Bioethicist Delivers NHS Values Based Lecture
A member of President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues said at Georgetown Thursday night that she first became fascinated with the…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown's V. Craig Jordan Selected for First Class of AACR Academy Fellows
V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, vice chairman of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been selected for American Association for Cancer Research’s…
February 19, 2014
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Team Georgetown Joins Scope it Out 5K in Call for Colon Cancer Screenings
Joanne Wilson thought she was doing everything “right” to stay healthy. She stopped eating red meat years ago, avoided tobacco and excess alcohol, and was an avid…
February 19, 2014
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Sandra Swain: Helping Regionalize Cancer Research and Care
There have been two common threads throughout the career of medical oncologist Sandra Swain, MD. One is her desire to cure breast cancer through translational medicine and…
February 19, 2014