Congratulations to the
Chair of our Medical Alumni Board,
Dr. Regina Torsney-Durkin (C'73, M'77)!
Regina is being honored as a recipient of the Founders Medal at the annual Founders Day Celebration on Sunday, April 9. Join Dr. Ray Mitchell and GU alumni and faculty at the dinner and awards ceremony taking place at the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, VA - all are invited.
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Georgetown's TWO Match Programs
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The Envelope, Please!
Senior GUSOM Students had much to celebrate this past St. Patrick's Day - which also happened to be this year's
Match Day. Check out
this video of joyous students! More photos on the
GUSOM FB page.
ALUMNI MATCH PROGRAM
Please consider joining Georgetown's own MATCH ("Match Alumni To Caring Hoyas") program, now in existence for the past twelve years. Through this affiliation, alumni are connected with recent graduates who are moving to alumni's home towns all over the country. Our newest graduates need support as they head out into their residency programs in new geographic areas. It can be as simple as a giving them a phone call to welcome them to your home town, or taking them out to dinner to help them get situated. Throwing them a Hoya lifeline keeps the alumni connection vibrant and strong!! Retirees are welcome, and local DC-area alumni are needed, too. We'd love to increase our Medical Alumni Board participation and support for this program. Click here to sign up, or contact Regina Torsney-Durkin for any questions.
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16th Annual GUSOM Founders Day Celebration
Washington Golf and Country Club
Arlington, VA
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Thursday 20th - Sunday 23rd
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John Carroll Weekend - register HERE
Austin, Texas
Medical meetings on Friday the 21st include:
Health Justice and Alliance Panel and Breakfast 9:30-11 am
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Monday 24th |
12th Annual Georgetown Lombardi Women & Wine
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA
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Meet the Nominations Committee Members
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The Nominations Committee is responsible for soliciting and recruiting nominations of new members for open positions on the board, with consideration to diversity of membership. This year there are four positions to be filled, and we are especially looking for candidates from the South and West regions of the country. Please consider nominating a colleague who would be interested in being an ambassador for GUSOM.
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Daphne Stamous Keshishian, M.D. - CHAIR
Daphne (M'93) is an internist in practice in Bethesda who focuses on preventive medicine,
nutrition and wellness. She went to U Penn undergrad and trained at Mt. Sinai in New York and Good Samaritan/University of Arizona in Phoenix.
Daphne is a member of the Georgetown Clinical Society and was president in 2012-13. She has served as a preceptor for Ambulatory Care in the GU Department of Family Medicine, and also enjoys mentoring students through the Georgetown Scholarship Program (GSP) and as a host for the Dine with a Doc program.
She is an avid home chef and a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She authors a food blog and is a regular contributor to WTOP radio on issues of food and medicine. She lectures and does cooking demonstrations at Whole Foods Markets and speaks at Universities of Shady Grove and Suburban Hospital on the concepts of culinary medicine.
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 Michael Alexander, M.D.
Michael (
C'74, M'78, W'83), received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University. After finishing his Internship and residency at Emory he was a Cardiology Fellow at Georgetown under W. Proctor Harvey, then a GU Clinical Faculty member for six years. Dr. Alexander is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
After practicing cardiology for over two decades, Dr. Alexander joined Cigna in 2005 and is currently a Senior Medical Director with responsibilities in all levels of medical review. He assists in the development of coverage policies pertaining to Cardiovascular Medicine through Cigna's Medical Technology Assessment Committee. He develops quality measures for cardiovascular providers in volume to value initiatives. Dr. Alexander is a frequent lecturer on cardiovascular health and disease prevention. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Health and Medical Sciences at Seton Hall University and is currently a Masters candidate at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Dr. Alexander serves on the Boards of Hope for Liberia and Friends of Barnegat Lighthouse State Park. He is past Flotilla Commander in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. He is married to Dr. Mary Patricia Alexander and together they have two children and two grandchildren.
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Tamike Auguste, M.D.
Tamika Auguste (M'00, R'04) is a practicing OB/GYN at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. She is also the Associate Medical Director for MedStar Simulation Training & Education Lab (SiTEL) and a co-director of the Teaching Scholars Program for MedStar. She has been practicing for approximately 13 years and is very involved in medical education, patient safety, and advocacy. She continues to serve our medical students by sitting on the Committee on Admissions for the Georgetown School of Medicine and serves as a faculty mentor to many of the 3rd year medical students who are deciding to go into OB/GYN. Tamika is also the current Chair for the DC Section of ACOG (American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) and heavily involved in advocacy for women's health. When she is not at work, she loves spending time with her family and new puppy!
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 Florence Barricelli, M.D.
Florence (C'84, M'88) comes from good Georgetown stock - her father Louis Barricelli is a GU medical alumnus (M'54) and is still practicing internal medicine at age 87 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY (same office!). Florence's husband Thomas Nicosia is a cardiologist and their two daughters are both in college: Katharine is a senior at Georgetown and Danielle is a sophomore at Duke. Florence has been practicing internal medicine for 25 years and is currently in a multi-specialty group employed by Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She is an avid reader of historical fiction and the classics.
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Kevin Camphausen, M.D.
Kevin (M'96, I'97) completed his residency at the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy in Boston in 2001 and started as a tenure track investigator at the NIH. His wife Kara Beckner (M'96, I'97) began her career as a Radiologist with Fairfax Radiologic Consultants that same year. Since then Kevin has received tenure and is the Chief of the Radiation Oncology Branch. His work focuses on improving the effectiveness of radiotherapy in patients with brain tumors. He recently published a Phase II study of a novel HDAC inhibitor that doubled survival in patients with this deadly disease. Kevin and Kara have three children ages 16, 14 and 12 and spend most of their free time at their sporting events.
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Brian D'Arcy, M.D.
Brian (C'70, M'74) is a cardiologist in Buffalo NY, where he is the Senior Vice-President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer of the Catholic Health System of Western New York. He served as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mercy Hospital (Buffalo). He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and is the Director of Graduate Medical Education Programs in the Catholic Health System of Western NY.
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Caridad de la Uz, M.D.
Caridad (M'05) is a Pediatric Cardiologist/
Electrophysiologist and Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital /Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where she directs the Pacemaker and Syncope Clinics. Cari graduated from Johns Hopkins University ('98) and Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies Program (GEMS '01) before attending GUSOM. She subsequently completed her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital Boston and her pediatric cardiology and EP fellowships at Baylor. She has an interest in pediatric pacemakers and ICDs, including the psychological ramifications of the use of these devices in children as well as an interest in syncope and dysautonomia. She is the current president of the GEMS Physician Alumni Council. Cari lives in Houston with her husband Matthew MacNeil, a marine engineer, and their children Madeleine (5) and Keane (4).
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 Srdjan Mirkovc, M.D.
Srdjan (M'84) completed his Orthopedic residency at Baylor, then Spine Surgery Fellowship at UCSD. He is currently the Division Chief of Spine Surgery for the Northshore University Health Systems and an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He serves as the Team Spine Physician for both the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Fire Soccer Club. He is also an extreme fitness athlete, and has participated in the Chicago Marathon, Bataan Memorial Death March, and the Tennessee Mountain Man March. He is married with three children (ages 18, 16, 14) and enjoys working out and scuba diving with his sons, as well as traveling and reading about military history.
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Mike Sharkey, M.D.
Mike (M'85) joined the Army after graduation, where he t
rained as a dermatologist and Mohs surgeon specializing in skin cancer treatments. Upon returning from a tour in Kuwait, Dr Sharkey left the Army for private practice and opened his first office in Hinesville, Georgia in 1996. His vision was to bring first class dermatologic care to the underserved areas of rural Georgia. He
is currently the Medical Director and CEO of Georgia Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center, a twenty office dermatology practice in Georgia.
In addition to leading the largest dermatology practice in Georgia, he is active on the local and state levels serving as the president of St Johns Parish Medical Society and the past president of the Georgia Society of Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery.
MIke has created the Jack and Elizabeth Sharkey scholarship in honor of his parents in order to support student tuition at GUSOM.
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Georgetown Medicine in the News
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Surviving in Antarctica
The first team of
Georgetown University researchers recently returned from a month-long trip to
McMurdo Station, Antarctica in order to examine the existence of life at extreme temperatures - a prelude to studying the possibility of life on other planets.
Are you Fertile? Check the App!
GUMC is conducting a study on the efficacy of fertility timing using a
smartphone app.
First Roth Scholarship Awardee
The memory of
Dr. Katy Roth (M'01) will live on through the scholarship that bears her name - first awardee is Lindsey Hastings-Spaine (SOM'19) from Sierra Leone.
What's a GWIM??
One Drug for Two Diseases
Doc Vader on Anti-Vaxxers
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