All Posts: School of Medicine

• GUMC Events Keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message Alive

  (January 31, 2020) — The words and examples of Martin Luther King Jr. came alive again in the GUMC community through several events held on the campus in the days before and after the January 20 holiday. Among the events organized by the School of Medicine, including the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, were a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, health disparities, health justice, medical education, School of Medicine

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, health disparities, health equity, HOYA Clinic, School of Medicine, service to others

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, HOYA Clinic, opioid epidemic, opioids, School of Medicine

• GWIM Unveils Toporowicz Portrait at Awards Ceremony

  (December 15, 2019) — In a conversation with pediatrics professor Miriam Toporowicz, MD, artist Gavin Glakas was surprised to learn that there were quotas for women medical students when she attended medical school in Chile. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s great, that they were trying to encourage women to go to medical school,’” Glakas said, not […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Women in Medicine, School of Medicine, women in STEM

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, health disparities, HOYA Clinic, philanthropy, School of Medicine

• Subramanian Honored by Interfaith Council

  (November 22, 2019) — The Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington honored Georgetown’s Siva Subramanian, MD, with its 2019 Interfaith Leadership Award at its 40th Anniversary Interfaith Concert on November 14 at Washington Hebrew Congregation. Subramanian is a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine and chief of neonatology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, School of Medicine

• Mitchell Delivers Traditional Ruggles Lecture

  (November 22, 2019) — A group of medical students, most dressed in military uniform, gathered November 18 to hear this year’s seventh-annual Ruggles Lecture on Military Medicine delivered by student-invited U.S. Air Force veteran Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP, Dean for Medical Education. Mitchell gave a detailed recounting of his experience as a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: military medicine, School of Medicine

• Medical Student Wins Grand Prize at Medicine Hacking Competition

  (October 18, 2019) — Before beginning his studies at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Alex D. Luta (C’16, M’20) earned a degree in government with a minor in theology, received an award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his research on science and human rights, and served as CEO of Innovo […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical research, School of Medicine, spina bifida

• You Are What You Eat: Students Drive New Elective in Culinary Medicine

  (October 14, 2019) — A recent survey of 24 studies around the world found that nutrition is not well incorporated into the medical school curriculum. According to researchers, “Despite the centrality of nutrition to healthy lifestyle, medical students are not supported to provide high-quality, effective nutrition care.” However, some medical schools are determined to change […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: culinary medicine, medical education, nutrition and health, nutrition education, preventive medicine, School of Medicine

• GWIM Celebrates Women in Leadership

  (October 4, 2019) — At their fall reception, Georgetown Women in Medicine (GWIM) welcomed new and returning female faculty members and celebrated several high profile promotions for GWIM members. “Each year, we start off the academic year with our fall reception as an opportunity to review GWIM’s mission, priorities and GWIM officers, but also to […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, Georgetown Women in Medicine, School of Medicine, women in STEM