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Dr. Newport Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award from Association for Psychological Science
Elissa Newport, PhD, professor of neurology and director of the Georgetown University/MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (NRH) Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, has been selected to
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Alexander Dromerick: Giving Stroke Patients a Hand
For Alexander Dromerick, MD, a neurologist and rehabilitation specialist, one of his clinical studies aimed at helping stroke patients recover use of their arms is taking much longer than he’d like. “
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NHS Academic Council Raises Funds for Kenyan School
The Academic Council of the School of Nursing & Health Studies has continued its support of a Kenyan secondary school that educates students who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. On Feb. 16,
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Service to Country Goes Beyond Military Duty for Dean Mitchell
Not long after the Persian Gulf War in 1991, U.S. military veterans returning from the overseas conflict reported medical problems ranging from fatigue and pain to respiratory and cognitive troubles.
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The Ides of Match XIII, Veni, Vidi, Vici
“The Ides of Match XIII, Veni, Vidi, Vici.” So read the back of the green t-shirts worn by Georgetown University School of Medicine’s class of 2013 on Match Day, March 15. The statement represents a p
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Lombardi Research Days Highlights Vibrancy of Student Projects
The Fifteenth Annual Lombardi Research Days took place on March 7 and 8, 2013 in the Research Building of Georgetown University Medical Center, where hopeful students gathered to display and share the
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GUMC Renames Bioethics Center in Honor of Dr. Edmund Pellegrino
Georgetown University Medical Cancer (GUMC) honored Edmund Pellegrino, MD, MACP, a physician and scholar known as a founder of contemporary medical and bioethics, with the formal renaming of the bioet
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Eighth Annual Women & Wine Event Breaks Records
Over 400 of Washington, DC’s leading businesswomen and breast cancer advocates gathered on March 11, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown for the annual Women & Wine event. Now in its eighth y
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Renowned Nurse Bioethicist Delivers NHS Values Based Lecture
A member of President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues said at Georgetown Thursday night that she first became fascinated with the concept of the common good while ca
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Georgetown's V. Craig Jordan Selected for First Class of AACR Academy Fellows
V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, vice chairman of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been selected for American Association for Cancer Research’s first class of the Fellows of
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