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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…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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,,…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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,…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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,…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014