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  • One Goal – Find a Cure for Breast Cancer

    The Georgetown Lombardi-Capital Breast Care Center Team members donned their t-shirts, double knotted their sneakers, and joined 2,200-plus supporters for the Tenth Annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

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  • NHS Alumna Earns John Carroll Award

    Colleen Scanlon (NHS’76, H’00), J.D., RN, senior vice president for advocacy at Catholic Health Initiatives, received the award at the 2012 John Carroll Weekend. Hosted in Chicago, the Windy City carr

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  • Madam Minister

    Ten years ago in Afghanistan, a woman died every 30 minutes in childbirth. That rate has dramatically improved to every two hours still shockingly high. Also a decade ago, the life expectancy of adul

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  • Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez – 2012 Founders’ Day Awards

    Georgetown University School of Medicine hosted the eleventh annual Founders’ Day Celebration, an evening of fundraising to benefit the Dean’s Leadership Scholarship Endowment Fund. Under the leaders

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  • In Spring, Science Is in Bloom at GUMC

    It started in early March with the Fourteenth Annual Lombardi Research Days. Students doing research in cancer get a chance to present their findings and gain recognition for their work. Then on Marc

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  • Georgetown Alzheimer's Researcher Honored

    The Alzheimer’s Association National Capital Area Chapter has honored R. Scott Turner, M.D., director of Georgetown University Medical Center’s Memory Disorders Program, for making a significant diffe

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  • Commencement 2012 at GUMC

    Commencement week at GUMC is characterized by a succession of events and celebration recognizing achievement and culminating in the formal commencement ceremonies for students of the School of Medicin

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  • Values to Guide a Graduating Student's Career

    Georgetown graduate Megan Berard (NHS’12) said she could not imagine having gone somewhere else for her bachelor’s degree. “Looking back I couldn’t imagine myself at a different school given the expe

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  • Timpone Receives Honorary Degree

    This year at its 62nd annual commencement exercises, Fairfield University, in Fairfield Connecticut, bestowed an honorary degree on Joseph Timpone, M.D., Associate Professor in the Division of Infecti

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  • The Third Annual School of Medicine Golf Invitational

    The Third Annual Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) Golf Invitational will take place at Raspberry Falls Golf Club in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday, June 25, 2012. The GUSOM Invitationa

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