All Posts: GUMC Stories

• New Georgetown Lombardi Office Cultivates Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Cancer Center

  Despite significant advances in cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment over the last several decades, persistent cancer health disparities disproportionately impact populations who have been historically underrepresented in science and medicine. Diversity in cancer research and education is a critical part of changing that paradigm. And critical to achieving that is cultivating an inclusive environment at work — the goal of the new Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Georgetown Lombardi.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, health equity, inclusion, racial disparities, racial equity

• Medical Students Organize Annual Conference to Celebrate the Black Medical Community

  To mark Black History Month, members of Georgetown’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) organize an annual conference at the School of Medicine for underrepresented medical students, residents, premeds and the general public.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, medical education, School of Medicine, SNMA, student events, student mentoring

• The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

  Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in Georgetown’s School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: brain, love, neuroscience

• A Partnership for Good

  A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony Fauci

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, bioethics, COVID-19, School of Medicine, School of Nursing

• What It Means To Be Well

  Learn about the many aspects of well-being, a signature focus for the School of Health’s research and academic missions.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tag: School of Health

• ‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice

  Meet five alumnae who developed a friendship at the School of Medicine and eventually wrote a book together.

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

• ‘We Messed Up’ Organizers Find the Upside of Failure

  Since it launched less than two years ago, the “We Messed Up” Initiative has brought together students and faculty to learn about resiliency and growing from failure.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, resiliency, School of Medicine, student experience

• School of Medicine Scholarship Recipient Dedicated to Serving Local Communities and Fighting Global Health Inequities

  For Amanda Wibben, MTS (M’26), the 2023-2024 Lawrence Dean Scholarship winner, cura personalis is about health care providers not only caring for their patients in their entirety, but also confronting their own privilege.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: scholarship, School of Medicine, student achievement, student experience

• Could a Georgetown Lab Finding Lead to New Treatment in Pancreatic Cancer?

  For the first time, new research by Georgetown scientists shows potential to make immunotherapy effective in pancreatic cancer by combining it with a drug that makes cancer cells more responsive to immunotherapy.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer, research

• Interfaith Blessing Highlights the Generosity of Anatomical Donors

  Before first-year medical students began their highly anticipated first day of anatomy lab, they paused for an interfaith blessing led by Father James Shea, S.J., Rabbi Daniel Schaefer and Imam Yahya Hendi.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: anatomical donor program, anatomy lab, medical education, School of Medicine, student experience