All Posts: GUMC Stories

• 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

• White Coats for Black Lives

  (June 5, 2020) — Members of our Georgetown and MedStar Health communities knelt in solidarity with and support of the Black community during a peaceful nationwide demonstration by health care workers on Friday, June 5.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, health advocacy, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• BRIC Program Teaches Evidence-Based Strategies to Reduce Bias

  (June 5, 2020) — When participants in the Bias Reduction and Improvement Coaching (BRIC) program planned their June 3 quarterly workshop, they couldn’t have imagined what would transpire in the interim from their last meeting. Against the backdrop of a country grappling with racial violence and systemic racism, the “coaches” started their meeting via Zoom […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, Georgetown Lombardi, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, unconscious bias

• NHS Alumna Leads Perioperative Services at MedStar Georgetown

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

• Cancer Genetic Counseling in the Time of COVID-19

  (May 28, 2020) — It may be hard to believe, but as recently as 2014, the idea of delivering genetic counseling for familial cancer risk remotely instead of in-person was quite controversial. Without data about whether this service could be provided effectively and without adverse effects, many genetic counselors were hesitant to adopt it and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi, telehealth, telephone genetic counseling