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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…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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 ; …
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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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…
February 19, 2014
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Team Georgetown Joins Scope it Out 5K in Call for Colon Cancer Screenings
Joanne Wilson thought she was doing everything “right” to stay healthy. She stopped eating red meat years ago, avoided tobacco and excess alcohol, and was an avid…
February 19, 2014
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Sandra Swain: Helping Regionalize Cancer Research and Care
There have been two common threads throughout the career of medical oncologist Sandra Swain, MD. One is her desire to cure breast cancer through translational medicine and…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Students' Essay Selected for '10 Ideas' Journal
Low health literacy often comes from a lack of communication between health care providers and their patients, according to a newly published essay by five Georgetown University…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Students Compete in International Global Health Case Competition
It’s 2017, and China is the world’s new economic leader. To maintain its position as a world power, China’s Ministry of Commerce wishes to invest in efforts…
February 19, 2014
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Georgetown Lombardi Puts Health Disparities on the Big Screen
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center recently shone the spotlight on the stark health disparities in Washington, DC, by dimming the lights for a movie screening.&;…
February 19, 2014