All Posts: GUMC Stories

• 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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• Research Day Gives Graduate Students Priceless Experience

  Fifty students in Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) programs at Georgetown University Medical Center showcased their research pursuits in this year’s Student Research Day, an annual event that began in 1985.

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• GUMC Helps Spearhead Campus-wide Symposium On Ebola Crisis

  Georgetown hosted an interdisciplinary symposium on the rapidly growing Ebola epidemic in West Africa, underscoring its ability to address multiple dimensions of the crisis, including medical, legal, ethical, political and security issues.

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• AAMC Bestows National Leadership Development Award on GWIM

  Just in time to help mark its 20th anniversary, Georgetown Women in Medicine has received a high national honor from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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• Brain Structure of Kidney Donors May Make Them More Altruistic

  People who donate kidneys to strangers have significantly different brain structures than those who don’t.

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