Welcome to Health Sciences Weekly (formerly GUMC Update). Here, you’ll continue to find important stories about our research, education, service and patient care that reflect our shared values. You’ll also find announcements, event listings, and other information about activities at the Medical Center, and please email us if there’s anything you’d like to share. Enjoy!
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Recognizing a need to strategically weave health equity content throughout their courses, educators in the School of Nursing’s Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Nurse-Midwifery/Women's Health Nurse Practitioner programs designed and implemented an innovative health equity curriculum to give students the knowledge and skills they need to provide patient-centered care and promote social justice. |
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Through their student-run organization Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), School of Health students are partnering with local nongovernmental organizations to address population health problems such as anemia and malnutrition through education and the use of sustainable health products. |
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In less than two weeks, nursing students provided dental exams and vision screenings, led health education sessions, toured a hospital for patients with tuberculosis and HIV, visited a vaccine clinic, learned about postpartum care and more through the inaugural Tanzania Health Care Experiential Learning Initiative. |
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When considering age and cognition, many people may only be familiar with some of the downsides: increased forgetfulness, lack of acuity or inability to multitask. But as neuroscientists know, that’s not the whole story. |
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Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, led by Charles Holmes, MD, in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, announced a new three-year, $15.3 million public-private partnership to expand availability of a highly effective novel drug to prevent HIV. |
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How TTP488 (azeliragon), an experimental drug, impairs aggressive, triple-negative breast cancer from metastasizing has been uncovered at the cellular level, according to researchers at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center led by Barry Hudson, PhD. |
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Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists led by Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, say the brain’s auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in the back of it — a finding that upends a century-long understanding of this area of the brain.
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Lee Jones, MD, dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry, has been elected to serve as chair of the AAMC Board of Directors. His term will begin November 7 and end at the AAMC Annual Meeting in November 2024. |
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Italo Mocchetti, PhD, professor of neuroscience, has been appointed to the executive committee of the DC-CFAR (District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research) as an institutional representative. He joins returning executive committee members Seble Kassaye, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine, and Marta Catalfamo, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology. DC-CFAR is a multi-institutional network that supports research aimed at improving health outcomes among persons with HIV and ending the HIV epidemic in Washington, DC and beyond through partnership with local government and the community.
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The DC Public Health Case Challenge aims to promote interdisciplinary, problem-based learning around a public health issue that faces the local Washington, DC community. The case competition will take place October 6 at the National Academy of Sciences Building. If you are interested in representing Georgetown in the case competition, apply here by August 18.
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GraphPad's PRISM statistical modeling software is available to all students, staff, faculty and researchers at GUMC at no cost for the 2023-2024 academic year. To register for access, please fill out the registration form. Please note that if you already have access to PRISM, you do not need to re-register.
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National Institute of General Medical Sciences “Regulatory Mechanisms Linking Spatial Gene Control and Genome Organization” Sreejith Nair (R35GM150636)
Children’s Cancer Foundation “In vivo validation of thymosin beta 4 to enhance treatment of medulloblastoma” Christopher Albanese
Children’s Cancer Foundation “Synthetic lethal approaches to treatment of AYA FA gene mutant head and neck cancer” Gary Kupfer
Children’s Cancer Foundation “Pax3-Foxol molecular mechanisms” Aykut Uren
National Institutes of Health “GUMC Zebrafish Shared Resource Aquatic Habitat Modernization Project” Eric Glasgow (R24OD035428)
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Tuesday, August 1
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Workshop participants will learn about communication tools in Canvas including announcements, chat, notifications and discussions.
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Tuesday, August 1
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Presented by Kristi Graves, PhD, associate professor of oncology and associate dean for faculty development. Part of the Summer Seminar Series in Cancer Biology.
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Thursday, August 3
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Faculty and staff can receive assistance with online teaching and learning tools available to them.
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Thursday, August 3
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Learn how to upload your CV, add your personal website information, upload a syllabus, publications and more.
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Friday, August 4
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Faculty and staff can receive assistance with online teaching and learning tools available to them.
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Tuesday, August 8
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Presented by Barry Hudson, PhD, associate professor of oncology. Part of the Summer Seminar Series in Cancer Biology.
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Friday, August 11
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
The 11th of 12 sessions of the CENTILE-sponsored Teaching Certificate Program is presented by Robin Gross, MD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Sarah Thornton, MD, associate professor of medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics.
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Friday, August 11
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Via Zoom
Presented by Alyce Adams, PhD, MPP, Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology and Population Health and of Pediatrics (by Courtesy), associate chair for health equity and community engagement for Stanford Health Policy, associate director for health equity and community engagement for Stanford Cancer Institute, and associate director for Stanford Impact Labs at Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative and the Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging Research.
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