All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Empowering Future Generations of Diverse Physicians

  (February 2, 2020) — With a background in higher education, personal experience as a first-generation college student, and extensive work with student populations from diverse backgrounds, Isela Melendez-Carpio, M.Ed., is eager to bring her expertise and passion to the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI). Melendez-Carpio started her new role as the […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, medical education, School of Medicine

• GUMC Events Keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message Alive

  (January 31, 2020) — The words and examples of Martin Luther King Jr. came alive again in the GUMC community through several events held on the campus in the days before and after the January 20 holiday. Among the events organized by the School of Medicine, including the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, were a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, health disparities, health justice, medical education, School of Medicine

• Cancer Organization Recommends Genetic Testing for Jewish People of Ashkenazi Descent

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi

• Nearly 70 Years After GU Graduation, NHS Alumna Reflects on Career and Education

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

• Georgetown Lombardi Clinical Trial Helps Advance Use of Immunotherapy in Liver Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, liver cancer

• HOYA Clinic Serves DC Residents in New Location

  (January 3, 2020) — The lobby of The Triumph, Community of Hope’s new temporary housing site in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, was buzzing with commotion as residents waited to get care. It has only been a few months since the reopening of Georgetown University School of Medicine’s HOYA Clinic, a student-driven free […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, health disparities, health equity, HOYA Clinic, School of Medicine, service to others

• NHS Alumna Finds a Life-Saving Calling

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, nurse midwifery, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Students Strive to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths in DC

  (January 2, 2020) — Many communities are struggling to stop the opioid epidemic, and the District of Columbia is no exception. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), there were 244 overdose deaths involving opioids in DC in 2017, or 34.7 deaths per 100,000 persons. Compared to the national average of 14.6 deaths […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, HOYA Clinic, opioid epidemic, opioids, School of Medicine

• GWIM Unveils Toporowicz Portrait at Awards Ceremony

  (December 15, 2019) — In a conversation with pediatrics professor Miriam Toporowicz, MD, artist Gavin Glakas was surprised to learn that there were quotas for women medical students when she attended medical school in Chile. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s great, that they were trying to encourage women to go to medical school,’” Glakas said, not […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Women in Medicine, School of Medicine, women in STEM

• Partners in Research Supports Visionary Scientists

  (December 14, 2019) — Research is a chicken-and-egg phenomenon. One thing leads to another. But without investigational funding there is no chicken. And no egg.  So says Nady Golestaneh, PhD, MSc, adding that she would not be where she is today in her quest to prevent a common blindness in the elderly without small grants […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: aging, biomedical research, macular degeneration, ophthalmology, Partners in Research