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Research Day Showcases PhD Students
“Practice talking about your research as much as possible to a wide range of individuals-- scientists in and outside of your field as well as non-scientists.” That’s the advice Tanya Evans, a 6th year
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Service-Learning: A Course Benefiting Students and Faculty Team Leaders
In 1995, the School of Medicine developed and implemented a program of service-learning to provide medical and nursing students with the knowledge and skills to advance community health priorities. No
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The White Coat Ceremony and the Making of a Doctor
“Something is going to happen here that’s magical.” With those words, Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., dean for medical education at Georgetown University School of Medicine, welcomed a standing-room only
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Itzhak Brook to Give Medical Ethics Lecture at American Academy of Otolaryngology Meeting
Itzhak Brook, M.D., M.Sc., will deliver the John Conley, M.D. Lecture on Medical Ethics at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surge
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Georgetown Launches New Course in Regulatory Science
Georgetown University’s Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, a joint effort between the university and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is offering its first graduate
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Victoria Shanmugam: Investigator receives $1.9M NIH Grant to Study Wound Healing
The National Institutes of Health has awarded an R01 grant in the amount of $1.9 million over five years to Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in support of Victoria Shanmugam, M.D., assistan
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GUMC Microbiologist Organizes Preeminent International Meeting on Hepatitis B
“Substantial advances” in hepatitis B research were presented at the 28th Annual International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, says John L. Casey, Ph.D., associate professor i
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Georgetown Lombardi Director Addresses Cancer Screening Challenges, Racial Disparities at Legislative Forum
It’s a simple enough premise: cancer screening saves lives. And yet, while this fact is not in dispute, it’s only when one scratches the surface of the screening issue that a variety of complicated sc
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5th Annual GUMC Convocation – Call for Award Nominations
It’s a fairly new tradition -- the Georgetown University Medical Center Convocation. Now in its 5th year, we begin preparing once again to celebrate academic prowess and to recognize unique and outsta
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Nurse Presents Research on Nursing, AIDS Pandemic
Ella Pritchard Curry, PhD, RN, ACRN, who has been a nurse for 22 years in the hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, presented Sept. 19, discussing, “First Impressions: A Retr
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