>>Watch a video highlighting this year’s White Coat ceremony.

Laughter and cheer could be heard all around Anacostia Park as a host of first- and second-year medical students poured their energy and excitement into the children attending the ninth annual HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp July 30-31. (Volume up!)

In June, Christine Mauvais (N’24) traveled to Lourdes, France with classmates through Georgetown’s Lourdes Magis Immersion Program, an annual trip within the School of Nursing, to help pilgrims who were seeking healing in a city known for miracles.

As a regular feature in GUMC Update, we highlight members of our staff/AAP - all critical to our mission. Today, meet Venishea Butler, director of budgeting & analysis for Georgetown University Medical Center.

Sponsorships are available for two to three faculty members to attend the October 13-15 AAMC Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Seminar, a leadership development program for associate-level faculty who are historically underrepresented in medicine. Using a culturally responsive approach, the seminar offers guidance, skill building and strategy development for career advancement in academic medicine. All full-time GUMC faculty members from any track, any school (SOH, SON or SOM), and at the rank of associate professor or professor who identify as a member of an underrepresented population in academic medicine by AAMC definition are welcome to apply. Submit a digital copy of your CV/biosketch and one-page letter of interest to ofaa@georgetown.edu by 5 p.m. on August 19. Contact OFAA with questions.

Explore a range of global cuisines for lunch starting August 8. P.O.D. Market will serve a lunch buffet Monday through Friday on a weekly menu rotation. Cash, credit and flex is accepted. View weekly menus (click on “download menu” button). Menu selection may vary based on supply chain and product availability.

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This issue of The Pellegrino Report features a message for all who are beginning their training as well as to all at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital who cultivate kindness and the virtue of solidarity. “When we consider ethics in medicine, we can look at the actions of individuals, but another important part of ethics is how individuals come together to meet a common goal,” wrote Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, professor of medicine and David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics.