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Marc D. Schwartz: Genetic Tests Guide Tough Treatment Decisions
As a student at the University of New York, Stony Brook, Marc D. Schwartz, Ph.D. envisioned a career as a psycho-therapist who occasionally dabbled in research. “What did I know? I was a 21-year-old k
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Study Examines Curriculum Infusion’s Impact on Care
Joan Burggraf Riley (NHS’76, G’97), MS, MSN, FNP-BC, FAAN, assistant professor of human science and nursing, and Edilma L. Yearwood, PhD, PMHCNS, BC, FAAN, associate professor of nursing, published, “
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Rosemary K. Sokas: Uniting Reality, Policy, Academe, and Safety
The career of Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, has taken a sort of hopscotch path: boots-on-the- ground scientific investigation among low-wage, high-risk worker communities to formulation of government po
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CRAs Add Strength to GUMC Staff
An effort started just over a year ago to increase the number of certified research administrators (CRA) at Georgetown University Medical Center continues to pay off. Three more GUMC staff members hav
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Leaders in Biomedical Informatics Explore Vast Potential at Inaugural Symposium
Informatics has become an essential component of modern medicine. Properly employed, it is the key that allows us to unravel the secrets of genomic and molecular data with the goal of improving patie
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Capital Breast Care Center Recognized for Efforts to Combat Breast Cancer in the District
The Council of the District of Columbia has recognized Capital Breast Care Center, a community screening and education program of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, for its efforts to re
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Panel Addresses Challenges of Cancer Prevention
A half-century ago, “Stop smoking!” was the basis of our nation’s nascent cancer prevention program – essentially the product of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health that tied cigar
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International Health Professor to Serve on WHO Group
A Georgetown University professor has been invited to serve on a World Health Organization group focused on neglected tropical diseases. Margaret Baker, PhD, assistant professor of international healt
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Georgetown Hosts Complementary and Integrative Medicine Conference
With more than a third of all adults using some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the need to standardize and integrate CAM into conventional medical and other health professions e
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HSA Graduate Students Go Beyond Coursework
An extracurricular effort by six graduate students at the School of Nursing & Health Studies sought to develop an implementation plan for a new emergency department wait time data collection process i
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