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New Center Spotlights Intersection of Medicine and Informatics
This summer, Georgetown University Medical Center announced the establishment of the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, or ICBI. The Center’s mission is to…
February 11, 2014
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Cancer Care that Exists Across Time Zones
Sydney Davis says she always felt she would have a story to tell. She just didn’t know it would be about being the “poster child” for the emerging era of…
February 11, 2014
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To Teach is to Learn Twice
In early August 2009, two Georgetown medical student leaders approached Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., dean of medical education at the Georgetown University School of Medicine,…
February 11, 2014
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Summer Series: Georgetown Students Travel to China
Led by Zhihuan Jennifer Huang, PhD, associate professor of international health, the Global Health Summer Program took place at Fudan University and provided students with the…
February 11, 2014
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Links That Build A Neuroscience Powerhouse
A tidal wave is coming and it has nothing to do with planetary conditions. Physicians who treat the human brain know that as the American population ages, the rapid rise in…
February 11, 2014
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Team Tackles Provocative Cancer Question
Serendipity — the sweet thing that plays a big role in scientific discovery — happened between labs at Georgetown University Medical Center and Harvard University,…
February 11, 2014
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Medical Student Saving Lives with Baking Soda in Haiti
Imagine the dangers of cooking inside your home on a charcoal stove while your young children play at your feet. That’s the deadly reality of many living in Haiti where…
February 11, 2014
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Video Exercise Helps Overweight, Obese Teenagers Lose Weight
The first study demonstrating weight loss from video games that require physical activity has been published online in the journal Obesity by a Georgetown team including Anisha…
February 11, 2014
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Peace Corps Alumna Becoming a Nurse-Midwife
Caitlin Givens (NHS’11, G’13) is a School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) graduate student who has always had a strong interest in women’s health.…
February 11, 2014
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NHS Summer Profile Series: Kopp Conducts Research in Argentina
For six weeks, human science major Antonia Kopp (NHS’14) interned in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the INFANT Foundation as part of the Translational Health Science.…
February 11, 2014