All Posts: GUMC Stories

• 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

• COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Clinics Promote Public Health, Interprofessional Education

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19 vaccine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, vaccination

• Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

  (November 30, 2021) — At its very basic definition, electricity is defined as “stationary or moving electric charges,” but as Georgetown’s Timothy Jorgensen, PhD, MPH, knows so well, electricity is the “foundation of life.” Following the publication of his first critically acclaimed and award-winning book “Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation” about the science and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: electricity, faculty books

• Georgetown Alumnae Lead at MedStar Health

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

• In Memoriam: Dr. Virginia K. Saba

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