All Posts:Arts & Humanities Program
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Hands-on Healing
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Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Online Classes Build Communities Across the Globe
(May 26, 2022) — For many students whose classes pivoted to virtual platforms during the pandemic, returning to in-person learning couldn’t come soon enough. But for participants in Georgetown Lombardi’s Arts & Humanities Program (AHP), many are hoping that online classes will be here to stay. Virtual Learning Goes Global Before the pandemic, Julia Langley, […]
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Music to Our Ears: Georgetown Lombardi’s Arts & Humanities Program Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
(February 14, 2021) — In February, the Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program (AHP) was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to study the effect of music on ICU patients’ neurologic and physiologic responses. The award appears to be the first time GUMC has received research funding from the NEA. […]
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The Arts Through the Lens of Health Care at Georgetown Lombardi
For three decades, the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program has been helping patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital navigate the difficulties of their illnesses by embracing the arts.
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Embracing the ‘Little Things’ at Georgetown Lombardi’s Poetry Café
The fourth annual Poetry Café invited members of the Georgetown Lombardi community to put words to their feelings about working, visiting and being in the hospital.
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Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program Director Joins Medical Faculty
In addition to her work as director of the Arts and Humanities Program at Georgetown Lombardi, Julia Langley recently became an instructor at the School of Medicine department of oncology in the medical education track.
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First Poetry Café Event at Georgetown Lombardi, MedStar Georgetown Provides Inspiration, Empowerment
(June 27, 2016) — Medicine and the arts seamlessly intertwine in a new event that draws out the creativity of the Georgetown Lombardi and MedStar Georgetown healthcare community. “We are all interested in getting MedStar Georgetown patients, caregivers, medical professionals and students more involved in the creative life of the hospital,” says Julia Langley, director […]
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William Wegman Brings Famous Weimaraners To Georgetown Lombardi
Wegman’s whimsical Weimaraners—the breed of dog that famed photographer and artist William Wegman captures most often in his work—brought a smile to many young patients when he visited Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center to share his work.
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