All Posts: GUMC Stories

  • Community Partners in Discovery

    What happens when you partner a group of caring, curious, public spirited women—none of them scientists or doctors—with researchers tackling some of today’s most challenging health problems? You creat

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  • Gene Therapy Researcher Writes Novel

    Fred Ledley (M’78) combines his love of writing and work as a gene therapy researcher in his first published novel, Sputnik’s Child. He says the book shows how baby boomers growing up with the startli

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  • Proof of "Right Stuff" for Med School

    Priscilla Tu lost her self-confidence after more than one medical school turned down her application to attend. So she decided to step back and apply to the Georgetown University School of Medicine Sp

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  • A Student Perspective: Just Listen

    I knew it would happen sooner or later. I knew I would meet my grandfather. My grandfather passed away in June of 2010, several years after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Everyone joked th

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  • The Doctor, Patient – And Computer

    Instead of the relationship of trust between a patient and physician, a third player, if effectively introduced and incorporated in the discussion, can create a “triangle of trust” that might even lea

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  • Uncovering Clues in the Brain

    It’s been said the human brain is the ultimate supercomputer – the wiring is so complex that no machine can rival it. It’s true - the top 1/5 of an inch of the brain surface contains billions of neuro

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  • HSA Graduate Serves as Hospital CEO

    Health systems administration alumnus Thomas Mullin (G’08) credits the graduate program’s faculty and residency experience with helping prepare him for his current role as CEO of a long-term acute car

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  • Exploring Both Sides of the Cancer Coin

    Anton Wellstein, M.D., Ph.D., knows that biology doesn’t care about the silos that have traditionally been built between medical disciplines. That’s why Wellstein, a professor of oncology and pharmaco

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  • Acupuncture Reduces Stress Protein

    Ladan Eshkevari, Ph.D., C.R.N.A., L.Ac., has been told so many times by her patients that the acupuncture she gives them relieves stress that she decided to put all that good feeling to a rigorous sci

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  • Nicotine May Slow Mild Memory Loss

    Scientific studies have shown nicotine improves focus and concentration. So it makes sense that older individuals with diagnosed memory issues might also gain benefit from use of nicotine, the brain s

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