All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Medical Students Join in the Fight for Racial and Health Equity

  (September 1, 2020) — Georgetown medical students joined thousands of people from around the country who gathered around the Lincoln Memorial on August 28 to participate in the 2020 March on Washington. The civil rights rally marked the 57th anniversary of the 1963 march when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, HOYA Clinic, racial equity, School of Medicine, SNMA

• NHS Alumna Returns to Georgetown for Master’s Degree in Aging & Health

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

• Celebrating New American Academy of Nursing Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Living Legends

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

• Virtual White Coat Ceremony Welcomes School of Medicine Class of 2024

  (August 22, 2020) — Despite the virtual setting for their White Coat Ceremony, the School of Medicine warmly welcomed the Class of 2024 as they donned their white coats and recited the Hippocratic Oath together for the first time. (Watch the full White Coat Ceremony.) “Members of the Class of 2024, as you take the […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, School of Medicine, White Coat Ceremony

• School of Medicine Professor Named Georgetown’s New Interim Chief Public Health Officer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, new faculty appointment, School of Medicine

• NHS Alumna Serves as a Leader at NIH Clinical Center

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

• 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