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For Some Bladder Cancer Patients, Simple Test Could Reduce Over-Treatment, Ease High Cost

Georgetown-led investigators have found that a fairly simple test significantly improves the identification of bladder tumors that will likely become invasive.
22-Jun-2018 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Global Health Center at Georgetown Announces New Program Focused on Biosafety, Biosecurity

The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center announced the launch of a new research and education program focused on biosafety, biosecurity, and protecting the health and safety of the laboratory and...
9-May-2018 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Making Sense of Senses: Researchers Find the Brain Processes Sight and Sound in the Same Two-Step Manner

Although sight is a much different sense than sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists have found that the human brain learns to make sense of these stimuli in the same way.
12-Apr-2018 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

A Simple Tool for Doubling Down on Disease Control

It’s a simple idea: Pair the control of a neglected tropical disease with a more prominent disease that afflict the same populations to reduce morbidity and mortality. The approach could be a win-win, but for public health officials, having...
9-Apr-2018 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Programs Offer Training in Catholic Clinical Ethics

Georgetown’s School of Medicine is launching Master of Arts and certificate programs in Catholic Clinical Ethics, in conjunction with the Catholic University of America, as well as with the support of the Catholic Health Association of the United...
5-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Georgetown University Medical Center Selected as Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence

The Lewy Body Dementia Association has designated Georgetown University Medical Center as a “Research Center of Excellence.”
4-Apr-2018 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Georgetown Among First Universities to Collaborate with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations U.S.

Georgetown University and CEPI U.S. – the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations U.S. – today announce a new agreement to explore joint cooperative academic and research initiatives.
21-Mar-2018 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and Georgetown University Launch Research, Education Collaboration

A new collaboration established between Georgetown University and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research aims to expand both institutions’ research and training missions in the biomedical sciences.
27-Feb-2018 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Georgetown Physician “On Call” to Assess Separated Immigrant Families

19-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT

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17-May-2018 8:55 AM EDT

Georgetown Physician Available for Interviews Regarding Trump’s Physical Exam

10-Jan-2018 6:05 AM EST

Georgetown Professor Reacts to WHO Reports About Impact of Environment on Child Health

6-Mar-2017 8:55 AM EST

Using Statistics Ethically to Combat "A Scientific Credibility Crisis"

A recent survey suggests that many researchers have tried and failed to reproduce other scientists' experiments as well as their own. Georgetown University’s Rochelle Tractenberg, PhD, is on a mission to help change that by...
13-Feb-2017 10:05 AM EST

The Nat’l Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep reacts to revised @AmerAcadPeds safe sleep recommendation @GUMedCenter

24-Oct-2016 12:05 AM EDT

Nobel Prize-Winning Science Is Key to Georgetown Neurotherapeutic Research

Today, the 2016 Nobel Prize in the category of medicine or physiology was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy,” a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. In describing...
3-Oct-2016 9:05 AM EDT

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5-Aug-2016 9:05 PM EDT

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Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC’s mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization, which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.

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Jesse L. Goodman

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Julie Fischer

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Tom Vincent

Project Manager

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Rebecca Katz

Co-Director & Associate Professor

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Claire Standley

Assistant Research Professor

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Lawrence O. Gostin

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Oscar A. Cabrera

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John T. Monahan

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Jesse L. Goodman

Director

Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University and DC Veterans Administration Hospitals

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Professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Goodman is trained in infectious diseases and public health. He formerly served as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Chief Scientist and Deputy Commissioner. He worked extensively on emerging infectious diseases at FDA and with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization and others on medical countermeasures and vaccines. Goodman is director of the Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship (COMPASS) at Georgetown and a clinician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Julie Fischer

Co-Director & Associate Research Professor

Laboratory capacity-building, Public health preparedness, International Health Regulations/GHSA implementation, Biosecurity and biosafety, Multisectoral coordination for disease detection and response, Viral pathogenesis

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Associate research professor with the department of microbiology and a member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center. She focuses on research and tools to strengthen global capacities for public health preparedness and response. She has also worked on issues related to medical emergency preparedness, and the consequences of biological, chemical, and radiological exposures during military service. Fisher is a microbiologist by training and an expert in infectious diseases.

Tom Vincent

Project Manager

Epidemiologist, focusing on infectious diseases such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola.

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Global and Infectious Diseases Fellow at the O’Neill Institute. Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Tom worked as an epidemiologist, focusing on infectious diseases such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola. His work has taken him to Sierra Leone and Uganda, where he organized and trained African public health professionals on field epidemiology, Lassa, and other viral hemorrhagic fevers. Vincent can discuss infectious disease epidemiology and global public health.

Rebecca Katz

Co-Director & Associate Professor

Global health security policy, International Health Regulations, Pandemic preparedness, Biological Weapons Convention, Health diplomacy, Innovative financing for health.

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Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center. For more than a decade, Katz has worked to help design systems and implement policies to facilitate a coordinated response to potential microbial outbreaks and pandemics in 22 countries — many low-resourced and developing. She is an expert on the World Health Organization an its International Health Regulations, and can comment on the international response to situtions like Ebola.

Claire Standley

Assistant Research Professor

Global health security policy and implementation, Neglected tropical disease control, Malaria policy and advocacy One Health (the interface between human, animal, and environmental health), with a focus on zoonotic diseases

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Assistant research professor in the Center for Global Health Science and Security. She can address the importance of global frameworks supporting health systems strengthening for public health emergency preparedness and response, and particularly those focused on preventing infectious disease outbreaks. In the context of Ebola, she can speak to her professional experience of supporting public health capacity building during and immediately after the West Africa outbreak (Guinea) and the importance of communication and coordination among multisectoral partners on a national, regional and global level.

Lawrence O. Gostin

Professor

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Faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law. He is professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and professor of public health at the Johns Hopkins University. Gostin is a co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and has served on numerous WHO expert advisory committees related to public health and global health security. Gostin serves on the Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola (Harvard University/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and served on the National Academy of Medicine’s Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future.

Oscar A. Cabrera

public health law, sexual and reproductive rights, health and human rights, global tobacco litigation and health systems law and policy.

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Executive director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a visiting professor of Law at Georgetown Law. He is a co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. Cabrera has worked on projects with the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, among other organizations. He has studied and is interested in various health law-related fields, such as public health law, sexual and reproductive rights, health and human rights, global tobacco litigation and health systems law and policy. Cabrera can comment in English or Spanish on the actions of the WHO and International Health Regulations related to Ebola.

John T. Monahan

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Senior advisor for global health to Georgetown University President John J DeGioia; senior fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy; and senior scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Monahan served as the special advisor for Global Health Partnerships at the US Department of State (2010-2014) as well as a counselor to the secretary and director of global health affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2009-2010). While at HHS, Monahan served as the U.S. Government’s primary contact with the leadership of the World Health Organization during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and helped coordinate the U.S.-led diplomatic strategy to secure commitments from developed countries for donating influenza vaccines to low-income countries. Monahan can discuss the obligation of WHO and member states to support and respond to disease outbreaks.