All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Empowered to Serve: First Cohort of BRIC Coaches Reflect on Personal, Professional Growth

  (July 16, 2021) — The Bias Reduction and Improvement Coaching (BRIC) program launched in September 2019 with 27 members of the Georgetown/MedStar community prepared to participate in a new evidence-based program designed to train faculty and staff members to help colleagues identify and mitigate bias in the workplace.  In the midst of a deadly pandemic […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: inclusion, racial equity, racial justice, training, unconscious bias

• Georgetown Double Alumna to Run on Team USA in 2021 Olympics

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

• Distinguished Behavioral Epidemiologist Becomes Chair of NHS International Health Department

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

• NHS Department Partners with MedStar Health on New Community Health Needs Assessment

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, needs assessment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Nursing Alumna Shares Memories of Education and Hospital Career

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

• Virtual Lombardi Women Event Celebrates 15 Years of Support for Breast Cancer Research

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, philanthropy

• Georgetown AHEC Prepares the Next Generation of Primary Care Professionals

  (June 18, 2021) — As a college student shadowing in an emergency department, Lorrane Kabert, MD (M’21), frequently found herself wondering what happened to patients after her shift ended and if they received adequate follow-up care. “I truly enjoyed speaking with patients and learned that many of them did not have doctors that they saw […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AHEC program, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, student achievement

• Family Medicine Professor and Chair Selected for Elite Executive Leadership Program

  (June 17, 2021) — Michelle Roett, MD (M’03), MPH, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and clinical chief of family medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, joins the Hedwig Van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM®) Program for Women as a fellow in the 2021-2022 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, School of Medicine, women in STEM

• Global Collaboration Results in New Open Online Course on Urban Health

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, medical education, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Clinical Trial Result Leads to New Treatment Option for Hard-to-Treat Breast Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, triple-negative breast cancer