All Posts: GUMC Stories
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Researchers Strive to Solve the Mystery of Gulf War Illness
Little is known about Gulf War Illness, but innovative researchers at GUMC are working to identify ways to diagnose and ultimately treat the disease, giving hope to veterans and their families. On May 29, some of those researchers gathered at in the Rafik B. Hariri Building to participate in a discussion called, “Hilltop Dialogue: Georgetown Discovery Paves the Way for Diagnosis & Treatment of Gulf War Illness.”
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Student-Run Mentorship Program Enriches Georgetown Presence at D.C. Shelter
Georgetown medical students have been running the HOYA Clinic, a free clinic located in the old D.C. General hospital building, since 2007. But a year ago, a student had an idea that would bring the medical students even closer to the at-risk population living in the D.C. General Family Shelter: the Big HOYA Little Saxa (BHLS) mentorship program.
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New class of drugs is redefining traditional cancer treatment
After more than 30 years of research in the field, Michael Atkins, MD, deputy director of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, is confident that immunotherapy is quickly becoming so promising that it will soon overtake use of chemotherapy and radiation, leading to a revolution in cancer care.
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Hope Grows as Understanding of Alzheimer’s Leads to Bevy of Clinical Studies
The sheer number of clinical studies underway at GUMC’s Memory Disorders Program is giving Program Director R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD new hope.
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A Mission to Ensure Quality Surgery For Cancer Patients
Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS has established — and is already leading — what is arguably one of the strongest research relationships between Georgetown University and MedStar Health — the MedStar-Georgetown Surgical Outcomes Research Center (MG-SORC).
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Spring/Summer 2015
Georgetown Medicine Magazine, a publication for alumni and friends of Georgetown University Medical Center, is now available online. The theme of this Spring/ Summer issue is “Caring for the Whole Person with Integrative Medicine.”
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Singers and Scientists Create 'Music for the Mind' to Support Research on Neuroplasticity
Dozens gathered May 20 at the Davis Center for the Performing Arts to hear international opera star Marquita Lister perform at “Music for the Mind.”
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With Melanoma on the Rise, Advanced Treatment and Prevention More Important Than Ever
The latest session of Doctors Speak Out — held May 13 during Melanoma Awareness Month — brought Georgetown physicians and scientists together to explore both the alarming and positive trends in the disease.
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Leading Surgical Oncologist Installed as Dillon Chair
Georgetown University officially installed Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, as the John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology during a luncheon investiture ceremony May 11. Family members, mentors, colleagues and friends from around the world gathered at Georgetown’s Hariri Building to honor Al-Refaie, along with the physician who bears the Chair’s name.
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Warwick Evans Ceremony Celebrates the Best and Brightest of the Class of 2015
Just days before graduating from Georgetown’s School of Medicine, excited students and their proud families gathered for the Warwick Evans Award Ceremony in Healy Hall May 15.
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