All Posts: GUMC Stories

• For 27th Year, Georgetown Maintains Prestigious Carnegie Research Classification

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Carnegie Classification, grants and awards, medical research

• New Georgetown Program Synergizes Interdisciplinary Training in the Sciences

  (January 21, 2022) — The National Institutes of Health has awarded Georgetown University a highly competitive and prestigious training grant intended to invigorate the workforce and inspire younger students from diverse backgrounds to pursue doctorate degrees in biomedical sciences.     The new program, known as the Georgetown University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD), will train […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical education, Biomedical Graduate Education, collaboration, diversity, graduate education, interdisciplinary programs

• How to End a Pandemic? Georgetown Course Encourages Students to See Themselves in the Answer

  (January 13, 2022) — When designing her innovative new course, How to End a Pandemic, Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, sought to push back against a common misconception regarding pandemic response.  “There’s this narrative that there are a handful of heroes or heroines in the story of this pandemic — I want to challenge that,” said […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, global health, pandemic preparedness, student experience

• Visiting Jesuit Chair Engages Ethical Questions in Health Administration, Health Policy

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: School of Nursing & Health Studies, Spirit of Georgetown

• Eliminating the Need for Anti-Rejection Drugs for Transplant Recipients

  (January 9, 2022) — Courtney Howard, 43, needed a kidney transplant to save her life and be cured of hereditary polycystic kidney disease. While she knew the kidney transplant was inevitable, what she did not know is that her sister Shannon Walker, who had vowed to provide that kidney when it was needed, would also […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: immunotherapy, organ rejection, organ transplant, research

• Zavoyna Honored with C.A.R.I.S. Award

  (December 17, 2021) — In recognition of his service, Mark Zavoyna, operations manager of the anatomical donor program at the School of Medicine, was awarded the C.A.R.I.S. Award at the December 15 GUMC community meeting.  The C.A.R.I.S. Award, which stands for “compassion, achievement, respect, inspiration and service,” is given to staff and academic and administrative […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: anatomical donor program, CARIS Award, Staff/AAP

• Georgetown Appoints Transformative Nurse Leader as Dean of Newly Reconceptualized School of Nursing

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: School of Nursing, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• GWIM Celebrates Achievements of Women in Medicine Individually and Collectively

  (December 11, 2021) — Gathering via Zoom, attendees at the Georgetown Women in Medicine (GWIM) Annual Awards Ceremony honored faculty members for their dedication to research, clinical care, teaching, leadership and mentorship, and all newly appointed, promoted and tenured women faculty members. (View a list of these honorees.)  “We believe that together, we can further […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, Georgetown Women in Medicine, women in STEM

• Georgetown Nursing Chair, Professor to Serve as Editor of Psychiatric Nursing Journal

  Category: GUMC Stories Tag: School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Nurse Ethicists Help Develop Ethics Toolkit for New ‘Essentials’ of American Association of Colleges of Nursing

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical ethics, School of Nursing & Health Studies