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Randall W. Maxey, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Alliance of Minority Medical Associations (AMMA) and former President of the National Medical Association (NMA) will be the keynote speaker at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for Health Disparities Research and Education National Minority Health Month celebration.

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The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) announced the first phase of its Weapons of Mass Destruction Collaborative Medical Readiness Initiative, which offers tuition-free online education about chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) incidents for civilian, uniformed emergency responders and healthcare providers across the nation.

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America's bloodiest one day battle continues to provide military physicians with wartime healthcare basics more than 140 years after it was fought. One hundred sixty-five medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in Bethesda, Md., will participate in a six-mile road march on April 27 through the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., as part of their first-year curriculum.

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Medical teams assigned to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) rushed to the aid of injured construction workers after the collapse of scaffolding outside the university's administrative building today, May 5, 2006.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) CEO and Executive Publisher of the prestigious journal, Science, Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D. will address attendees at this year's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) research symposium.

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Bethesda, Md. "“ The Graduate School of Nursing (GSN) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) will for the first time, bestow the Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing Science degree to four students, during the university's 27th commencement exercise at the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, in Washington, D.C., at 11 a.m., on Saturday, May 20.

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Alison O'Brien, Ph.D., an internationally recognized microbiologist and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) has been named Co-Principal Investigator for the Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence (MARCE).

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The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) has established the William H.J. Haffner American Indian/Alaska Native Women's Health Award in honor of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) professor.

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Christopher C. Broder, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology and emerging infectious diseases at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) was recently named director of USU's Emerging Infectious Diseases graduate degree program.

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Medical students and graduate nursing students of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) will be airlifted from the university's campus in Bethesda, Md., by Pennsylvania National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter to Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on Tuesday, July 11th, to take part in an annual battlefield training exercise.