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Harold P. Freeman, Champion of the Underserved, Receives Top Honors at 10th Annual Convocation
Harold P. Freeman, MD, a champion of the poor and underserved, received the Cura Personalis Award and delivered the keynote address at this year’s GUMC Fall Convocation on November 16.
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31st Annual Lombardi Gala Raises $1.4 Million
Close to 700 Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center supporters turned out for the 31st annual Lombardi Gala in Washington on November 18 as the cancer center honored a philanthropist, a researcher and a broadcast journalist.
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Medical Students Make a Difference on Day of Service
More than 80 medical students took advantage of the opportunity to give back to the community by participating in the School of Medicine’s Day of Service this year.
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Atkins Officially Installed as Dr. Scholl Chair of Medical Oncology
Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named to the Dr. Scholl Chair of Medical Oncology, a fully endowed professorship that supports the work of a distinguished physician, educator and researcher making extraordinary contributions to cancer research and education as well as patient care.
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Rebeck Honored at Georgetown’s Fall Faculty Convocation
G. William Rebeck, a professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center and director of Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, is the recipient of a 2017 President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers.
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Student Research Day Showcases Wide Breadth of Biomedical Research at Georgetown
Students in the Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) program study a diverse range of topics including biohazardous threat agents & emerging infectious diseases, biostatistics, neuroscience and more. So when BGE holds their annual Student Research Day, the presentations run the gamut.
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CBCC Honors Patient Navigation Pioneer at Gift of Life Breakfast
(October 17, 2017) — At the 10th Annual Gift of Life breakfast, more than 200 supporters of the Capital Breast Care Center gathered at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel to celebrate the community-based program and its mission — providing patient navigation services and access to breast cancer screenings to all women, regardless of their […]
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CBCC Patient Navigators Help Women Overcome Obstacles to Health Care Access
A recent change to the way patients are served at the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC) has staff members hopeful that they will now be able to reach more women than ever before.
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Dr. Harold P. Freeman to Receive Cura Personalis Award
This November, the work of Harold P. Freeman, MD, as a patient advocate, surgical oncologist, researcher and national leader will be recognized with the Cura Personalis Award, Georgetown University Medical Center’s highest honor.
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Al-Refaie Leads Multidisciplinary Research Team
To answer the research questions that Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, was interested in asking, he required a team of researchers knowledgeable in biostatistics, health finance and economics, public policy and law. He was able to find those experts at Georgetown.
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