All Posts: GUMC Stories

• NHS Health Systems Administration Chair to Serve on D.C. Commission on Health Equity

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

• NHS Family Nurse Practitioner Program Director Builds Collaboration With West Virginia Community

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Can Green Tea Prevent Liver Cancer? A Georgetown Lombardi Physician-Scientist Team Up to Find Out

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, green tea extract, liver cancer

• Petronic-Rosic Builds Up New Department of Dermatology

  (July 12, 2019) — One year ago, Vesna Petronic-Rosic, MD, MSc, MBA, joined Georgetown University School of Medicine to transform the division of dermatology into a stand-alone academic department and build a clinical department at both MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In that time, as department chair, Petronic-Rosic has doubled the […]

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

• Georgetown’s Ruesch Center Offers Summer Interns an In-Depth Look at GI Oncology

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Ruesch Center

• Virtual Reality Training Helps Medical Students Develop Real Empathy

  (June 28, 2019) — Imagine your favorite grandmother is showing signs of dementia. She progresses from forgetting who your son is, to forgetting what day it is and that she’s supposed to host Easter dinner. When your family arrives that day, she doesn’t seem to recognize you. She’s still in her bathrobe and hasn’t made […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, Dahlgren Memorial Library, geriatrics, medical education, School of Medicine, virtual reality

• GU Collaboration With Community Partners Creates Educational Opportunity for Nursing and Medical Assistant Students

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Over 200 Strong and $2.5 Million Later, Men’s Event Marks 20 Years Fighting Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, Men's Event

• Embracing the ‘Little Things’ at Georgetown Lombardi’s Poetry Café

  (June 14, 2019) — Colorful felt berets were sprinkled amongst the crowd as Deacon Thomas (Tom) Devaney, director of Mission and Pastoral Care at the hospital, welcomed members of the Georgetown Lombardi community to the fourth annual Poetry Café in the chapel at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. “We come together annually each year in the […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, Georgetown Lombardi, poetry cafe, School of Medicine

• Studying Barriers to Health Care to Help Women with HIV

  (June 12, 2019) — Seble G. Kassaye, MD, MS, can’t help but see parallels between HIV-positive African American women in the DC area and conditions surrounding rising rates of HIV infection as it swept through Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised until a teenager. The infection in Ethiopia occurred largely in urban […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, health disparities, health equity, HIV, public health