All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Open Letter Leads to Launch of Racial Justice Committee

  (July 19, 2020) — As activists across the country protested against racism and police brutality, a group of Georgetown medical students exchanged text messages about how the university should respond. One of them suggested writing an open letter to university leaders.  Seventy-two hours later, more than 500 students had signed the letter, which inspired the […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, Biomedical Graduate Education, Georgetown Lombardi, health equity, racial equity, RJCC, RJCC blog, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma

  (July 17, 2020) — When Tanvee Singh (M’22) started feeling sick in March, she thought her asthma was acting up. As her symptoms worsened, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Determined to find a silver lining in her experience, Singh donated plasma at the NIH Clinical Center when she […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: convalescent plasma, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, service to others

• As Hospital VP, NHS Alumnus Helps Respond to COVID-19 in Florida

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Conditional Reprogramming: A Novel Way to Study the Novel Coronavirus

  (July 8, 2020) — Even during the early days of the pandemic, it was apparent that some patients with COVID-19 develop multisystem problems in addition to respiratory infections. Specifically, the virus can cause life-threatening gastrointestinal, cardiac, neurological and renal complications. These severe cases appear to occur because the virus rapidly replicates in various organs, causing […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, Center for Cell Reprogramming, COVID-19, global health, SARS-CoV-2

• NHS Alumna is New MedStar Montgomery Chief Nursing Officer

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

• It Takes a Virtual Village: Educators, Patient Actors and Medical Students Build Connections with Telehealth Training

  (June 26, 2020) — Just as medical practices rapidly transitioned to deliver health care remotely in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, medical school faculty and administrators at Georgetown quickly integrated a telehealth training component into newly developed two-week virtual clerkships in pediatrics, OB-GYN, medicine and surgery for third-year medical students. In addition, rising fourth-year […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, patient care, School of Medicine, telehealth

• NHS Alumnus Celebrates Third Anniversary of Clinic He Founded

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

• Georgetown Nursing Professor Named 2020 Health Disparities Institute Scholar

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

• Two NHS Students Selected as Scholars by Pat Tillman Foundation

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

• $1M Gift Supports NHS Students Serving Geriatric and Vulnerable Populations

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: geriatrics, health disparities, health equity, nursing, scholarship endowment, School of Nursing & Health Studies