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Georgetown Hires Norman Beauchamp as New Executive Vice President of Health Sciences
Georgetown has selected Dr. Norman J. Beauchamp, a higher education leader in health sciences, a clinical researcher and a radiologist who has advanced the treatment of stroke, as the new executive vice president for health sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and executive dean of Georgetown University School of Medicine.
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Trimming Heart Disease Risk, One Haircut at a Time
An award-winning policy proposal from Georgetown School of Medicine students explores the role of barbershops in improving heart health in DC.
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Patients Benefit From Attending to Spirituality in Health Care, Says Georgetown University Bioethics Expert
In a Perspective piece titled “Physicians, Spirituality, and Compassionate Patient Care” in the March 21, 2024 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, argues for the clinical and ethical importance of attending to spiritual well-being in the healing process.
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Undergraduates and Medical Students Learn Cura Personalis Through the Medical Humanities
For the past three years, Georgetown undergraduates and medical students have immersed themselves in the emerging interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, which seeks to expand the hard sciences approach to the study of science and medicine to include social and historical context.
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The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?
Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in the School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.
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‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice
Five women who became friends as medical students at Georgetown collaborated on a new book that is a comprehensive, practical guide for aspiring women physicians.
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Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade
A family foundation has gifted $1.5 million to Georgetown University to sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future lawyers, physicians and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.
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Student-Run Ambulance Service Celebrates 40 Years of Caring for Fellow Students
In 1983, a group of undergraduates started a medical ambulance service for fellow students on foot. Forty years later, the group has grown into one of the largest student-run ambulance services among colleges and universities in the U.S.
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Finding the ‘Right and Good Healing Acts’
Georgetown provides leadership in the complex field of medical ethics.
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AAMC Announces 2023-2024 Board of Directors: Georgetown’s Lee Jones, MD, to Serve as Chair
The Association of American Medical Colleges has announced its 2023-2024 Board of Directors. Lee Jones, MD, dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, has been elected to serve as chair of the board.
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