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MedStar Health Taps Louis M. Weiner, MD, to Lead MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute
MedStar Health has named Louis M. Weiner, MD, as director of its MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute. Weiner will serve in this capacity while also remaining director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Atkins Officially Installed as Dr. Scholl Chair of Medical Oncology
Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named to the Dr. Scholl Chair of Medical Oncology.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Bryant Gumbel Named 2017 NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award Recipient
Emmy Award-winning television journalist and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel has been named this year’s recipient of the NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Gift of Life Breakfast Honors Patient Navigation Pioneer
The 10th Annual Gift of Life breakfast, held October 10, brought together more than 200 supporters of the Capital Breast Care Center to celebrate the community-based program and its mission and honor patient navigation pioneer and surgical oncologist Harold P. Freeman, MD.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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CBCC Patient Navigators Help Women Overcome Obstacles to Health Care Access
A recent change to the way patients are served at the Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC) has staff members hopeful that they will now be able to reach more women than ever before.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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NY State Medicaid Expansion Widened Racial Gap in Access to High-Quality Cancer Surgery
The 2001 New York State Medicaid expansion — what is considered a precursor to the Affordable Care (ACA) — widened the racial disparity gap when it came to access to high-quality hospitals for cancer surgery, according to a new study from Georgetown University.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Al-Refaie Leads Multidisciplinary Research Team
The relationship between GUMC and MedStar Georgetown encourages collaborations between researchers and physicians such as the one led by Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s surgeon-in-chief.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Dr. Harold P. Freeman to Receive Cura Personalis Award
This November, the work of Harold P. Freeman, MD, as a patient advocate, surgical oncologist, researcher and national leader will be recognized with the Cura Personalis Award, Georgetown University Medical Center’s highest honor.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Schlegel Strives to Create Another Cervical Cancer Game Changer
While the HPV vaccine has been a game changer, Schlegel’s recent research may lead to another advance by treating women already infected with HPV and a precancerous condition that often leads to the development of cervical cancer.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Two Agents Deliver Knockout Punches to Ewing Sarcoma
When combined with an already FDA-approved chemotherapy, a novel agent developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center appears to halt the ability of Ewing sarcoma to grow and progress.
Category: Lombardi Stories
