All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Georgetown Nursing Chair, Professor to Serve as Editor of Psychiatric Nursing Journal

  Category: GUMC Stories Tag: School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Nurse Ethicists Help Develop Ethics Toolkit for New ‘Essentials’ of American Association of Colleges of Nursing

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical ethics, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Clinics Promote Public Health, Interprofessional Education

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19 vaccine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, vaccination

• Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

  (November 30, 2021) — At its very basic definition, electricity is defined as “stationary or moving electric charges,” but as Georgetown’s Timothy Jorgensen, PhD, MPH, knows so well, electricity is the “foundation of life.” Following the publication of his first critically acclaimed and award-winning book “Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation” about the science and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: electricity, faculty books

• Georgetown Alumnae Lead at MedStar Health

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• In Memoriam: Dr. Virginia K. Saba

  Category: GUMC Stories Tag: School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Alumna Focuses Future Medical Career on Health of Native Communities

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• HOYA Clinic Reopens to Serve DC Residents

  (November 12, 2021) — One of the most coveted real-world experiences for Georgetown medical students is the opportunity to serve others and learn clinical skills through the HOYA (Health Outreach for Youth and Adults) Clinic, the first student-run free clinic in Washington, DC. For more than a decade, the clinic has provided free, nonemergent medical […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, HOYA Clinic, School of Medicine, service to others

• Family Medicine Professor Vows to ‘Take COVID Down’ One Question at a Time

  (November 5, 2021) — Family medicine physician LaTasha Seliby Perkins, MD, feels a strong sense of responsibility to improve the health of people in the D.C. community. “I believe that Georgetown has a responsibility to Black people and underrepresented minorities, and service to this city because of the resources that we have,” said Seliby Perkins, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, racial disparities, School of Medicine, service to others

• Four Graduate Nursing Students Become First Scholars Through Transformative Johnson/Turpin Fellows Endowed Fund

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: philanthropy, School of Nursing & Health Studies, student achievement