All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Global Health Graduate Course Features COVID-19-Focused Simulation Exercise

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, global health, graduate education

• Women’s History Month 2021: Georgetown University and the Cadet Nurse Corps

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, Cadet Nurse Corps, School of Nursing & Health Studies, World War II

• GUMC Community Meeting Focuses on Racial Justice, ‘Our Highest Priority’

  (February 26, 2021) — Students, staff, faculty and Georgetown University leadership gathered virtually for the first GUMC Community Meeting of 2021 that carried a singular focus: racial justice. “We have devoted our time together to this topic because the journey toward and the achievement of equity and racial justice at all levels of our community […]

  Categories: GUMC Stories, Special Stories Tags: collaboration, Georgetown Lombardi, GUMC community meeting, racial equity, racial justice, Racial Justice Initiative, racism, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Two Georgetown Centers Find Unexpected Synergy in Exploring Pandemic’s Impact in Latin America

  (February 26, 2021) — Proving that scholarly sparks can fly in unexpected ways, a cross-campus collaboration between Georgetown University Medical Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is applying a holistic new lens to COVID-19. Drawing on each center’s unique expertise, undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Global Health Science […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, collaboration, COVID-19, global health, Latin America, public health

• Georgetown Mission and Ministry Offers Ignatian Retreat for Alumni Caregivers

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, COVID-19

• New Racial Justice Institute Co-Director Combines Psychology and Public Health to Advance Health Equity

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Lombardi, new faculty appointment, racial equity, Racial Justice Initiative, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Chair Co-Edits Journal Issue Focused on Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, mental health, School of Nursing & Health Studies, social determinants of health

• ‘Black Doctors Matter’ at SNMA’s Melanin in Medicine

  (February 20, 2021) — At Melanin in Medicine, an annual event organized by the Georgetown University Student National Medical Association (SNMA), “Black Doctors Matter: Enriching Medicine Since 1837” was not just a theme but a cause for celebration and a call to action. Held in collaboration with the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, medical education, Melanin in Medicine, racial equity, racism, School of Medicine

• Clinical Students Volunteer With COVID-19 Vaccinations

  (February 19, 2021) — Since mid-January, more than 150 medical and nursing students at Georgetown have answered MedStar Health’s call for volunteers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Coordinated by Elizabeth Zolper (M’21), the students volunteer every day of the week at four MedStar Health locations around Washington, D.C.  Throughout this pandemic, students have contributed to […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, cura personalis, medical education, MedStar Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Vaccine

• Music to Our Ears: Georgetown Lombardi’s Arts & Humanities Program Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, music and healing, patient care