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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…
October 10, 2014
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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, …
October 9, 2014
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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.. …
October 9, 2014
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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…
October 9, 2014
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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…
September 26, 2014
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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…
September 25, 2014
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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,…
September 25, 2014
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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,…
September 25, 2014
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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.…
September 24, 2014
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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’.…
September 15, 2014