All Posts: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

• BRIC Program Teaches Evidence-Based Strategies to Reduce Bias

  (June 5, 2020) — When participants in the Bias Reduction and Improvement Coaching (BRIC) program planned their June 3 quarterly workshop, they couldn’t have imagined what would transpire in the interim from their last meeting. Against the backdrop of a country grappling with racial violence and systemic racism, the “coaches” started their meeting via Zoom […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, Georgetown Lombardi, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, unconscious bias

• NHS Alumnae Help With MGUH COVID-19 Response

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, nursing, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Pediatrics Gala Celebrates 20 Years

  (April 12, 2019) — Stories of sacrifice, hope, loss and triumph were told and honored at the 20th Annual Georgetown Pediatrics Gala. Donors and other supporters, including foreign dignitaries, business leaders and prominent figures in Washington’s health, medicine and law communities, gathered at the historic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on April 6 to celebrate at […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, pediatrics

• First Patient in a Clinical Trial Using Her Own Blood to Personalize Treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Experiencing Remission

  (January 11, 2019) — The first cancer patient to be treated as part of the CAR-T cell clinical trial at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital through Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is now in “complete remission.” Daisy Diggs, 57, of Laurel, Md., volunteered for the experimental treatment after a lengthy battle with stage-three non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, CAR-T cell clinical trial, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital