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Annual Lombardi Gala Honors ESPN Anchor, Cancer Fighters
The 28th Annual Lombardi Gala took place October 18, drawing more than 800 people to the Washington Hilton for an evening of raising funds and awareness for cancer treatment and research.
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Gale’s Legacy Honored Through Presidential Fellows Medal
Karen Gale, PhD, a longtime member of the Georgetown University Medical Center community who passed away in August, was honored for her significant contributions to the field of epilepsy research and interdisciplinary scholarship at the University’s Fall Faculty Convocation this week.
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CBCC Celebrates Decade of Service at Gift of Life Breakfast
Capital Breast Care Center hosted its 7th annual Gift of Life Breakfast today, where CBCC’s most loyal supporters gathered to pledge their continued support for CBCC and its mission.
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Annual ICBI Symposium Gathers Steam at Nexus of Science and Informatics
The Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) at Georgetown University Medical Center hosted its third annual Biomedical Informatics Symposium, breaking attendance records and demonstrating impressive momentum for the relatively new center.
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Georgetown Experts Tackle Complexities of Patient Safety
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) convened an expert panel to discuss the challenges of creating and maintaining a culture of patient safety at the latest installment of its Doctors Speak Out series.
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Study Follows HIV-infected Women into Their ‘Golden’ Years
How well do individuals diagnosed decades ago with HIV manage their disease as they age? The issue is crucial, says Georgetown University Medical Center HIV specialist Mary Young, MD, because by 2015, half of people in the United States living with HIV will be age 50 or older.
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Event Honors Harkin’s Contributions to Integrative Health and Medicine
Leaders from dozens of organizations devoted to integrative health and medicine convened at Georgetown at a recent event to celebrate the contributions to their field of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
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Award Grants Medical Student Valuable Hematology Research Experience
A Georgetown University School of Medicine student was one of 12 first- and second-year medical students from the United States and Canada to participate in the American Society of Hematology’s eight-week Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP) this year. The career-development award program is designed to foster minority medical students’ interest in the field of hematology.
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Boys with High-Functioning Autism Show Surprising Strength at Language
Boys with high-functioning autism were found to be significantly faster at a key task of grammar abilities – producing past tenses for regular verbs – than were boys without autism, in a new study by Georgetown researchers.
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Medical and Nursing Students Tackle Flu Season Together
Underscoring Georgetown’s ongoing commitment to interprofessional education, Georgetown University School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies have teamed up in preparation for this year’s flu season.
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