All Posts: GUMC Stories
-
HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp Continues Its Run
For the sixth year in a row, Georgetown School of Medicine students hosted homeless children living in the DC General Family Shelter for HoyaMed Summer Sports, a full week of games and sports activities.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Liver Cancer Deaths Rise, Along with Hope for Better Treatments
Nationwide and locally in D.C., deaths from liver cancer have significantly risen over the past 16 years. Despite this grim news, Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, an associate professor at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, sees hope for meaningful progress in liver cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Pre-Med Pipeline Program Infuses Students with Cura Personalis
The 2018 ARCHES fellows spent the summer engaged in shadowing, research, and service learning, to help them confront health disparities and inequity when they become health professionals.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Georgetown Neuroscience Student Networks with Nobel Laureates at Annual Meeting
Patrick Malone, a student in the MD/PhD program (G’19, M’21), was one of 29 students from the United States selected to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, which hosted 39 Nobel laureates and 600 young scientists from 84 countries.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Georgetown Physician 'On Call' to Assess Separated Immigrant Children
The long-lasting impacts of the acute stress and trauma being experienced by children separated at the U.S. border is “absolutely terrifying,” a Georgetown expert in childhood development, trauma, and resilience says.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Toretsky Looks to 'Outsmart Cancer Cells' with Help From Hyundai Hope on Wheels Award
Childhood cancer survivors, Georgetown Lombardi oncologists and representatives from Hyundai Motor America all gathered on a sunny day outside of the Medical-Dental Building to celebrate Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, as the recipient of the $100,000 Hyundai Hope On Wheels award.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Hoyas Connect With DC Kids Through Annual Summer Sports Camp
For the past six years, Georgetown University School of Medicine first and second-year students have planned and run a weeklong, cost-free sports camp for homeless children living in the D.C. General Family Shelter. They look forward to another one this year.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
Georgetown Lombardi Men's Event Boasts Another Year of Success
Over 200 men gathered for the 19th annual Men’s Event, a fundraising dinner to raise awareness and money for research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center on cancers that affect men.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
O’Donnell Named The Nehemiah and Naomi Cohen Chair in Pulmonary Disease Research
Anne E. O’Donnell, MD, a professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, was named the Nehemiah and Naomi Cohen Chair in Pulmonary Disease Research at an investiture dinner held June 14.
Category: GUMC Stories
-
From Chapel to Coffeehouse
The third annual Poetry Cafe, hosted by the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program and Mission & Pastoral Care on June 7 in the chapel at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, provided the hospital community with the opportunity to collectively share their thoughts and experiences through poetry and more.
Category: GUMC Stories