All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Subramanian Honored by Interfaith Council

  (November 22, 2019) — The Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington honored Georgetown’s Siva Subramanian, MD, with its 2019 Interfaith Leadership Award at its 40th Anniversary Interfaith Concert on November 14 at Washington Hebrew Congregation. Subramanian is a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine and chief of neonatology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, School of Medicine

• Mitchell Delivers Traditional Ruggles Lecture

  (November 22, 2019) — A group of medical students, most dressed in military uniform, gathered November 18 to hear this year’s seventh-annual Ruggles Lecture on Military Medicine delivered by student-invited U.S. Air Force veteran Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP, Dean for Medical Education. Mitchell gave a detailed recounting of his experience as a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: military medicine, School of Medicine

• NHS Senior Advisor for Nursing Receives Award from Villanova, Delivers Lecture

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

• Be a Family Detective This Holiday Season

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

• NHS Professor Enjoys Semester as Faculty Resident at Oxford

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

• Chief Wellness Officers Share Their Stories at CENTILE Conference

  (November 3, 2019) — Participants in the closing plenary panel at the 2019 CENTILE Conference reflected on the progress that has been made in advancing the need to address physician and caregiver burnout since the 2017 conference.  “Two years ago, we were here making the case for why burnout science matters,” said Daniel Marchalik, MD, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, physician wellness, wellness

• DC Community Out in Strength to Support Georgetown Lombardi’s Capital Breast Care Center

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Biosafety in Research and Cura Personalis

  (October 24, 2019) — “When they work well, no one knows they’re there.” That’s how Julie Fischer, PhD, describes programs that protect biomedical scientists from the unintended consequences of their research, especially when their work involves infectious or otherwise hazardous materials.  Fischer is the director of the Elizabeth R. Griffin Program, a part of Georgetown’s Center […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biosafety, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Elizabeth R. Griffin Program, global health

• NHS Nursing Professor Selected as Next Susan H. Mayer Professor in Health Equity

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, new faculty appointment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Medical Student Wins Grand Prize at Medicine Hacking Competition

  (October 18, 2019) — Before beginning his studies at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Alex D. Luta (C’16, M’20) earned a degree in government with a minor in theology, received an award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his research on science and human rights, and served as CEO of Innovo […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical research, School of Medicine, spina bifida