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Sharing Innovation and Motivation at the Ruesch Center Symposium
Nearly 300 medical professionals, patients, caregivers and advocates attended the 8th Annual Ruesch Center Symposium on December 1, listening to lectures on topics including precision medicine, immunotherapy, proton therapy and molecular imaging.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Some Cancer Therapies May Provide a New Way to Treat High Blood Pressure
Drugs designed to halt cancer growth may offer a new way to control high blood pressure (hypertension), say Georgetown University Medical Center investigators. The finding could offer an advance in hypertension treatment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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