On the School of Nursing & Health Studies Day of Service, student volunteers representing all of the departments at NHS took time out of their busy schedules to support Food & Friends, a community-based organization that provides medically tailored meals for clients in the D.C. region living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses. |
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Medical Students Honor the Contributions of Anatomical Donors
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In appreciation for the invaluable experience of learning from cadavers, members of the Class of 2024 gathered for a celebration of life Mass at Dahlgren Chapel, honoring those who donated their bodies to Georgetown’s anatomical program. The Mass was open to those from any faith tradition or denomination, and offered Catholic, Jewish, Dharmic, and Muslim reflections. |
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New and old friends of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center gathered for the 34th Annual Lombardi Gala to celebrate the mission and work of the cancer center, and honor its steadfast supporters. |
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Relive the excitement of the March 18 White Coat and Physicianship Ceremony celebrating the School of Medicine Class of 2024. |
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Health Sciences Strategy Initiative – Community Meeting |
Thursday, April 7, 2022
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Research Building Auditorium and live via Zoom (link forthcoming)
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Thursday, April 21
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Derek M. Griffith, PhD, professor in the Department of Health Systems Administration and founding co-director of the Racial Justice Institute, will give a lecture moderated by Debbie S. Barrington, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in the Department of Human Science. Sponsored by the School of Nursing & Health Studies Committee on Mission and Values.
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Colloquium for GUMC Educators in the Health Professions |
Monday, May 9
1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Via Zoom
Sponsored by CENTILE, the Colloquium for GUMC Educators in the Health Professions will feature a keynote speaker, a discussion panel, an opportunity to hear from colleagues, and celebrate new and advancing members of the GUMC Teaching Academy. Contact Pamela A. Saunders, PhD, if you have any questions. |
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18th Annual MAGIS Society of Master Teachers Induction Ceremony |
Thursday, May 19
5:00 p.m.
Goldberg Auditorium
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Join the MAGIS Society of Teachers as we honor physicians and biomedical scientists dedicated to the care of others and the health needs of our society.
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An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that humans might give viruses back to animals more often than previously understood. In a study published March 22 in Ecology Letters, the authors describe nearly 100 different cases where diseases have undergone “spillback” from humans back into wild animals, much like how SARS-CoV-2 has been able to spread in mink farms, zoo lions and tigers, and wild white-tailed deer. |
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In September 2020, a new collaboration emerged against the backdrop of the pandemic: a network of racially and ethnically diverse nursing faculty across 18 Jesuit nursing schools in the United States. After nearly a year and a half of strategic collaboration between its members, the Jesuit Diverse Nursing Faculty Network, co-founded by Edilma Yearwood, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, will serve to better facilitate success in scholarship, leadership, teaching and the professional development of racially and ethnically diverse nursing faculty as the newest ACJU Conference. |
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Georgetown President John J. DeGioia presented a 2022 President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teacher to Stefano Vicini, PhD, professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology on March 23 at the Spring Faculty Convocation. In a video played during convocation, Vicini discussed his work and passion for teaching.
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Wanted: Judges for Research Week |
The Department of Medicine is seeking faculty members, fellows and residents to serve as judges for Research Week to serve May 2-4 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. If you’re interested, email your availability to Riza Peralta.
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The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), in collaboration with the Office of Advancement and with input from Georgetown leadership, is launching the second round of gap funding to advance promising biomedical technologies to the next value inflection point. The grant will be in the range of $100,000 per project for one year. Letters of intent must be submitted by April 2. For details on the eligibility criteria, process and application submission deadline, visit the OTC website.
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The DML Lean Library browser extension provides quick and simple access to full text content, library announcements and research right when you need it at no cost to you. This extension can help you research, save you money and time, and keep you informed. |
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Monday, March 28
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 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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Monday, March 28
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Erika Pearce, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University,
presents “Mitochondrial Shape-Shifting in the T Cell Response.”
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Tuesday, March 29
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
This forum seeks to promote a culture of inclusivity in clinical health research and enhance investigator capacity by featuring tested culturally and linguistically appropriate approaches for inclusion of people with limited English proficiency. Sponsored by the Georgetown University School of Medicine Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Georgetown Howard Universities Center for Clinical Translational Science (GHUCCTS).
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Tuesday, March 29
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Mekeila Cook, PhD, assistant professor, Meharry Medical College, presents her research findings on justice and behavioral characteristics of adolescent girls who are survivors of sex trafficking and discusses her qualitative research that sought to understand and contextualize facilitators and barriers to engaging in social and medical services among justice-involved adolescent girls.
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Tuesday, March 29
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Kimberley Bruce, assistant professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, presents “Targeting Lipoprotein Lipase in Neurodegenerative Disease.” Sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology.
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Tuesday, March 29
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Open to all. Co-sponsored by the Racial Justice Committee for Change, Hoya Med Alliance, and the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
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Wednesday, March 30
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Learn to find validated instruments using the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) and Mental Measurements Yearbook databases. Search for and find/select questionnaires, rating scales and surveys to measure responses to a given problem/topic in psychology, medicine, nursing and other fields.
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Wednesday, March 30
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom
Michael A. Carome, MD, director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen, presents “Exposing Unethical Clinical Trials and Prompting Federal Regulators to Take Action.”
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Thursday, March 31
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Via Zoom
Get an overview of basic text mining and how it can be used in research. Learn how to prepare a corpus of texts for text analysis and explore SameDiff and Voyant, two popular tools for basic text mining. More complex text mining techniques such as Natural Language Processing or Topic Modeling also will be covered. No programming is required.
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Thursday, March 31
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, March 31
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Leverage the functionality of Zoom for teaching remotely. Learn how to use Chat, Whiteboard and Polling functions, and create and manage attendance and poll reports.
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Thursday, March 31
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Kristi Anseth, PhD, distinguished professor, Tisone Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, associate faculty director of the BioFrontier Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, presents “Biomaterials as Synthetic Extracellular Matrices: Designer Materials for Tissue Regeneration.”
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Friday, April 1
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Adi Haramati, PhD, and Shiloh Jones, PhD, will lead a discussion of Robert Sutton’s book “The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.”
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Friday, April 1
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Schering Foundation Library, Med-Dent NE401
“Neural Circuits and Neurotransmitters in Cerebellar Development And Injury” presented by Vittorio Gallo, PhD, Interim Chief Academic Officer, Children’s National Hospital, Interim Director, Children’s National Research Institute, Hudson Chair in Pediatrics, and Director, District of Columbia Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. Sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology.
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Monday, April 4
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Riggs Library
A panel discussion of the book “Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji” by Emily Mendenhall, PhD, medical anthropologist and professor in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA) Program in the School of Foreign Service. Sponsored by STIA, the Global Health Initiative and the Mortara Center for International Studies.
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Wednesday, April 6
11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Via Zoom
Promote student engagement in your live classes by learning how to use Zoom’s new tools: PowerPoint as a virtual background, “focus mode” to help students avoid distractions, “immersive view” for creative discussions, exit surveys for all types of feedback, and advanced polling.
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Wednesday, April 6
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Cyrus Ghajar, PhD, associate professor, Public Health Sciences Division & Human Biology Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, presents “Understanding and Overcoming Immune Evasive Properties of Dormant Disseminated Tumor Cells.”
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Wednesday, April 6
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Lauren A. Maggio, PhD, professor of medicine and health professions education at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and associate of research at the USU Center for Health Professions Education, presents “Did I Do the Right Thing?: Questionable Research and Authorship Practices in Medical Education.”
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Wednesday, April 6
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom
Kelly Corredor, JD, chief advocacy officer, American Society of Addiction Medicine, presents “From Dragonflies to Whales: Advocating for Addiction Policy Reform in the United States.”
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Thursday, April 7
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Explore ways of screen sharing PowerPoint presentations in a Zoom meeting for online and in-class hybrid teaching.
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Thursday, April 7
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Via Zoom
This year’s theme is “Out of Our Element: Vulnerability, Fatigue & Misinformation — Caring for Yourself and Your Community in Isolating Times.” Breakout sessions for medical students are followed at 6:45 p.m. by a keynote fireside chat featuring author Wajahat Ali. Co-sponsored by the School of Medicine Office of Student Affairs, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Learning Society Advisory Committee, and Gold Humanism Society.
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Thursday, April 7
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Via Zoom
Juan M. Saavedra, MD, adjunct professor of pharmacology, presents “Authorship and Publication” as part of this training series for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career investigators on the NIH requirement of responsible conduct of research. Sponsored by the GHUCCTS TL1 TBS Program.
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Friday, April 8
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Mark Mattson, professor in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, presents “Mechanisms by Which Intermittent Fasting Enhances Resilience.” Sponsored by MedStar Health Research Institute and GHUCCTS.
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Friday, April 8
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
Jessica Jones, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology, and Andrea Cammack present “Team-Based Learning: What It Is and What It Isn’t.”
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Saturday, April 9
12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Lower Level Darnall Hall, Room B-06
Presented by the Georgetown University Police Department and the Student Safety Advisory Board, this four-hour workshop includes both information on risk reduction as well as instruction of a number of hands-on techniques.
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