All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Her Ambition to Become a Nurse Realized, Recent NHS Graduate Plans Next Steps as Family Nurse Practitioner

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

• Georgetown Lombardi Patient Records Song with Cancer Can Rock

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, patient care

• Georgetown Applying Patented Technology to Develop Fast and Accurate COVID-19 Test

  (August 6, 2020) — After studying the results of a myriad of diagnostic tests used around the world for the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, Georgetown University Medical Center biochemist Mark Danielsen, PhD, thinks he has a solution for making a better test — one that can deliver faster results and be accurate.  It’s a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, SARS-CoV-2

• Following Family’s Dreams, ARCHES Alumna to Start at School of Medicine

  (August 6, 2020) — Over 20 years ago, after immigrating to the United States from Pakistan, Rimsha Rana (M’24) and her family dreamed about her going to Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM). On her father’s commute to and from work, he would pass Georgetown and pray, “Dear God, please give my children a chance […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: ARCHES Program, cura personalis, diversity, medical education, School of Medicine

• Using Zoom, NHS Undergraduates Teach Health Literacy in Alaska Literacy Program

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Clinical Research Staff Rise to the Challenges Posed by Pandemic

  (July 31, 2020) — Running clinical research can be complicated under normal circumstances but it’s especially arduous during a pandemic. Despite the difficulties, the clinical research teams at Georgetown have worked tirelessly, remotely and on campus, to continue supporting researchers and study participants. “Our team as a whole really stepped up to do this, and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: clinical research coordinators, clinical trials, COVID-19, Huntington's disease

• First-of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial at Georgetown Puts Mammography Technologies Under the Spotlight

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, mammography

• Georgetown Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice Program Director Named ‘Star Nurse’

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

• Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, Georgetown Lombardi, global health, pandemic

• SOM Alumna Channels Cura Personalis Lessons to Psychiatric Care During Pandemic

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, cura personalis, pandemic, School of Medicine