All Posts: cura personalis
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NHS Alumnus Celebrates Third Anniversary of Clinic He Founded
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Golden Apple Awards 2020: A Celebration of Our GUSOM Community
(May 18, 2020) — Georgetown University School of Medicine faculty, students and staff were honored virtually for this year’s annual Golden Apple Awards. Golden Apple Awards The Golden Apple Award is presented annually by each class to a member of the faculty whose outstanding professional and personal qualities have enhanced the medical education of the […]
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HOYA Clinic Campaign Aids DC’s Temporary Housing Residents
(May 8, 2020) — The risk posed by COVID-19 may have temporarily closed the physical doors of the Health Outreach for Youth and Adults (HOYA) Clinic, a free, medical student-managed clinic located in the Triumph temporary housing facility in Congress Heights in Southeast Washington, but it has not dampened the resolve of its student volunteers […]
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NHS Junior Contributes to COVID-19 Relief Efforts Through U.S. Navy
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Hoyas on the Hill Advocate on Behalf of Patients
(March 24, 2020) — Though the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the focus on the Hill, the purposeful groups of Health Justice Scholars from Georgetown University School of Medicine and Georgetown Law who walked the halls of congressional buildings on March 11 — just one day before such visits were canceled — were undeterred in their efforts […]
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Former CMS Administrator Delivers NHS Values Based Lecture
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HOYA Clinic Serves DC Residents in New Location
(January 3, 2020) — The lobby of The Triumph, Community of Hope’s new temporary housing site in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, was buzzing with commotion as residents waited to get care. It has only been a few months since the reopening of Georgetown University School of Medicine’s HOYA Clinic, a student-driven free […]
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Georgetown Students Strive to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths in DC
(January 2, 2020) — Many communities are struggling to stop the opioid epidemic, and the District of Columbia is no exception. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), there were 244 overdose deaths involving opioids in DC in 2017, or 34.7 deaths per 100,000 persons. Compared to the national average of 14.6 deaths […]
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HOYA Clinic Toy Drive Exceeds Goal
(December 9, 2019) — More than $10,800 raised… 400 toys purchased… 30 rolls of holiday wrapping paper. Those impressive numbers tallied by the Georgetown University School of Medicine’s annual HOYA Clinic 2019 Toy Drive were outdone only by the countless smiles and endless delight on display at the culminating holiday parties during the week of […]
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Cura Personalis Award Recipient: HIV/AIDS Epidemic Taught Me to be a Better Person
(November 27, 2019) — When Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, reflects on her graduation day from medical school at Cairo University many years ago, she admits that her perception then about what it meant to be a physician differed greatly from reality. The infectious-disease trained doctor, who leads ICAP — a global health center at […]
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