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Local Middle School Students Get “Heady” Lessons
Earlier this month, more than 30,000 researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). A vast majority…
February 12, 2014
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Finding a Voice After Stroke
Peter Turkeltaub, M.D., Ph.D., is clearly delighted and surprised by one of his recent studies on how the brain processes language. When Turkeltaub asked a group of study…
February 12, 2014
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Meet the Current Alumni Association President
After serving as chair of the Medical Alumni Board for five years, Mary Beth Connell (M’89) jumped headfirst into her new role as president of the Alumni Association in…
February 12, 2014
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Cancer Center Opens Community-based Office to Study Health Disparities
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has marked the opening of a new community-based office designed to research and reduce cancer disparities among minority and…
February 12, 2014
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Tackling Stroke in the Nation’s Capital
On a fine day in 2007, Donnie Sisco decided to come home early from his job as a property caretaker on the Eastern Shore. He needed some r-and-r — the headache that hit…
February 12, 2014
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Australian Nursing Students Study at NHS This Fall
Three nursing students from two universities in Australia are studying this semester at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. Edwina Turner and Stephanie…
February 12, 2014
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Chance to Prove Mettle for Medical School
Despite almost three months of non-stop classes followed by intense bouts of studying, Leah Broadhurst says she wakes up everyday “with a smile on my face — despite the…
February 12, 2014
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First Cohort of Online Nursing Students Graduates
Katherine Skiff (NHS’08, G’12) says her long-term plan is to use her master’s degree in nursing to provide health care globally with a focus on refugees.…
February 12, 2014
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“Heroes” on Wheels
The Hyundai Hope on Wheels returned once more to Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center on Sept. 19 – this time to award a $250,000 Hope Grant to Kenneth Tercyak,…
February 12, 2014
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Teaching Family Medicine in the ED
To Kim Bullock, MD, the emergency department — or ED — is the perfect place to teach medical students about family medicine with a dash of global health. At first…
February 11, 2014