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Author says solutions more broad than focus on health care.
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Creating a "life vision" could promote resilience among medical students.
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Dr. Dretchen may be retired from GUMC, but find out why he's not really leaving.
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"Health care is changing dramatically, and as the youngest member of the AMA's Board of Trustees I am excited to bring a unique perspective," says Omar Maniya.
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Georgetown University's Center for Child and Human Development is a founding partner of this international effort to help girls succeed.
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Students create and implement a hematology-related research project over the summer, encouraging their interest in the field.
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The 52 students selected for this year-long program are described by the NIH as "innovative" and "research oriented."
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| GUMC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT |
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At the June 20 GUMC Community Meeting, Dr. Ed Healton and other GUMC leaders presented information on the facilities planning process and fundraising, and provided an engagement update. The slides used and Dr. Healton's comments related to the engagement update are posted here. |
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| OTHER NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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- Rochelle E. Tractenberg, PhD, MPH, has been named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Fellows are recognized for their professional contributions to the field of statistical science.
- Dr. Milton Brown has been appointed as a member of the NIH Drug Discovery for the Nervous System Study Section. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline. Study sections review NIH grant applications and make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board.
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WASHINGTON (June 30, 2016) - You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100 fertility awareness apps finds that most don't employ evidence-based methodology.
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WASHINGTON (June 26, 2016) - In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at GUMC's Institute for Reproductive Health are recruiting as many as 1,200 women to study, in real time, a smartphone app that calculates a woman's chance for pregnancy on a daily basis.
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WASHINGTON (June 24, 2016) - Obese male mice and normal weight female mice produce female pups that are overweight at birth through childhood, and have delayed development of their breast tissue as well as increased rates of breast cancer.
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Suggests with Sonia de Assis, June 27, 2016
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Biology professor Peter Armbruster is studying the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) to, among other research avenues, discover how it manages a process called diapause.
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Save the Dates!
SOM White Coat Ceremony
Friday, August 5
BGE Student Research Day
Tuesday, September 27
All day event
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To view previous issues of GUMC Update, visit the Update Archive.
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