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Giving a Voice to Research Participants and Their Caretakers
A new effort by the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) will help those participating in research studies and their caretakers learn about the clinical research process, offer feedback on participant recruitment strategies and ultimately serve as ambassadors for research in their communities.
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Exploring Identity Through Monologues, Poetry, Music and More at “What Makes You … ?”
At “What Makes You … ?,” a celebration of the artistic and diverse perspectives of the Georgetown University School of Medicine community, students, faculty and staff shared the ways in which their rich backgrounds shaped their identities.
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Arts & Medicine Club Showcases Diverse Student Talent
The Arts & Medicine Club was founded by students who wanted to foster their peers’ creativity, and give back to the community at the same time.
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Overcoming Unconscious Bias: What Works and What Doesn’t
“The question is not about whether you have biases, it’s a question of what is your bias,” H. Anna Han, PhD, said at “Great Minds Think Differently: The Science of Diversity and the Impact of Unconscious Bias” on January 12 in Proctor Harvey Amphitheater. “We’re all biased, we’re all flawed, we’re not perfect and we’re going to work to overcome that.”
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Global Health Experts Advise Advance Planning for Inevitable Pandemic
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speaks at Georgetown University Medical Center and urges the incoming Trump administration to plan ahead for infectious disease outbreaks.
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GWIM Recognizes Outstanding Female Faculty at Awards Ceremony
With a nod to the past and a focus on the future, the annual Georgetown Women in Medicine Awards Ceremony celebrated the achievements of six women faculty in the areas of mentorship and outstanding achievement.
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Giordano to Serve on Committee Advising HHS Secretary on Human Research Protections
James Giordano, PhD, a Georgetown bioethics expert, was recently appointed to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee charged with protecting human research subjects.
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Faith Organizations Gather in Rome to Discuss Ways to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
A Georgetown co-sponsored workshop examining ways faith-based organizations might address the growing global health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can help “bring God’s healing to a world so much in need.”
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Doctoral Student to Use Fellowship for Brain Iron Deficiency Research
Erika Raven (G’17), a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program for Neuroscience (IPN), has been selected as the 2017 Marshall Sherfield Fellow for postdoctoral work in the United Kingdom.
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Researchers Design Innovative System to Universally Catalogue Cancer Gene Variants
Subha Madhavan, PhD, and her colleagues have developed a standard way for researchers everywhere to describe and catalog the gene mutations found in cancer biopsies. They also recently published a paper online in Genome Medicine offering ideas about how to fix this data streamlining issue, including a list of 18 key data elements.
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