Progress is the newsletter for and about The George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC)
community, highlighting its faculty, residents, staff and students. It is published monthly by
the Office of Communications and Marketing. Articles, pictures and calendar submissions and suggestions
are welcome - deadline is the first of each month. Contact Editor Thomas Kohout via E-mail mcmtxk@gwumc.edu or call 202-994-0648.
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Inside this Issue: 2008 GW
Cancer Gala Honorees Announced; SPHHS to serve as Base
for Robert Wood Johnson Initiative Aimed at Improving
America’s Health; HIV Forum Receives Gates Contract to
Explore HIV Intervention; Dr. Phillip Lee, former
assistant secretary for Health, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, Delivers Second Annual George
Silver Lecture; ISCOPES Offers a "Walk in My Shoes"
Experience; GW Students Help Launch District’s First
Physical Therapy Clinic; and much more...
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January 2008: GW Cancer Institute (GWCI)
Screens Nearly 700 Area Men for Prostate Cancer During
Annual NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo; School of Public
Health and Health Services (SPHHS) and GW HIV/AIDS
Institute Contribute to Landmark District of Columbia
Annual HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Report 2007; Eritrea
Partnership Sets Up Residence; Detecting Neglected
Tropical Diseases in the U.S.; NCI Grant Funds GWCI
Genomics Partnership; Perlin Lecture Looks at
Murder-Suicide; SPHHS Grand Rounds Features Lynn
Goldman, MD, MPH, and Jon Ruffin, PhD; ISCOPES Puts
Awareness on the Menu... |
2007 |
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November 2007: The Partnership
for Eritrea Sends its First Team to Launch First
Residency Programs in SUrgery and Pediatrics; Acting
USDA Visits GW Hospital to Announce New Food Pyramid for
Pregnant Women; SPHHS Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary;
Former SUrgeon General Richard Carmona Speaks Out
against Obesity at GW; Yale Honors Provost and VPHA;
Breaking New Ground in Cardiac Care with Personalized
Medicine... |
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Sept./Oct. 2007: CDC Director Julie
Gerberding Opens the SPHHS Public Health Grand Rounds
Series; Provost and VP for Health Affairs Tapped for
Homeland Security Advisory Council; Medical Center
Welcomes New and Returning Students; Governor and
Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson Joins the SPHHS
STOP Obesity Alliance to Address Obesity in America... |
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August 2007: New residents
come to campus; Vice President and Lynne Cheney dedicate
the Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular
Institute; SPHHS Teams with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric
AIDS Foundation; New administrative Appointments for
2007–08; Making Ex-Smokers with the X-Pack; Med Students
Make the Most of their "Last" Summer; and much more... |
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Summer 2007: Commencement 2007 coverage; Sen. Hillary Clinton Unveils Strategy to Lower Healthcare Costs; First Lady Laura Bush Visits GW Hospital for Women’s Health Week; Medical Center Investigates Expansion; Final Public Health Grand Round Lecture with Paul Wise, MD, MPH; HSPI Releases Report on Internet Radicalization; GW Cancer Institute Annual Gala; Day in the Life coverage; Follies and more… |
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April 2007 - Match Day; 12th Annual Research Day, SPHHS Hosts Five Former CDC Directors; Daniel Rosenblum Gives this year’s Stuart M. Fidler, MD, Memorial Lecture; Scientists Shed New Light on Skin Damage; Third Annual Sislen Lecture; McCormick Center Hosts Lecture by Stephen Baylin, MD; and much more... |
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March- 2007 - GW SMHS Alumnus Robert Cohn, MD ’36, BS ’32, donated $5.7 million; RCHN Community Health Foundation gives $2 million for Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy; SMHS Announces New Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree; SPHHS Hosts Former FDA Commissioners; and much more... |
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January-February 2007 - School of
Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) signs a memorandum of understanding
with Ethiopian government to develop Public Health programs, Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff gives address, SPHHS publishes white paper on HPV
vaccination, a new MFA study examines artificial disc, Harold Freeman, MD, gives
fourth Public Health Grand Rounds, and much more... |
2006 |
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December 2006 - GW Welcomes Dr. Steven
Knapp who was chosen to become the University’s 16th president; The Medical
Center announces historic partnership with Physicians for Peace and the government
of Eritrea to establish residency training programs in Eritrea; Dr. Harrold P.
Freeman delivers the fourth SPHHS Public Health Grand Rounds lecture and Dr.
Bernard Goldstein and David Nabarro deliver second and third Grand Rounds lectures;
GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and Tom Scully deliver the 2006 Gibbs
Oration; The George Washington University Medical Center hosted U.S. Attorney
General Alberto R. Gonzales as he kicked off National Methamphetamine Awareness
Day, Nov. 30; and much more... |
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October 2006 - The GW Medical Center
welcomes the incoming class of 2010 as well as returning students; CDC's Dr.
Julie Gerberding Opens New Public Health Grand Rounds Series; President and CEO
of the Association of American Medical Colleges Darrell G. Kirch, MD, discussed, “Psychiatry
and the Future of Academic Medicine”; Africa Center Explores Role of US
Universities in Health Advocacy; Director of NIH's National Human Genome Research
Institute Francis Collins, MD, PhD, presented the keynote address at a personalized
medicine forum co-sponsored by SPHHS and Research! America; GW's Homeland Security
Policy Institute testifies before Congress and brings prison radicalization out
of the shadows; and much, much more... |
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August 2006 - Secretary Leavitt Announces
First Certified Health Records Software Vendors, Africa Center Explores “Brain
Drain” Issue, GW Alumnus Named Acting
U.S. Surgeon General, HIV/AIDS Institute Researcher Kashanchi Develops Mouse
Model to Test Human Immune System Response, SMHS's End-of-Life Care program
recently hosted a three-day institute, Office of Student Opportunities Helps
Students Make the Most of their Summer, and more... |
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Summer 2006 - Graduation Celebration, Rwanda's President Visits
GW, Jacobs Institute Joins SPHHS, GW Medical Center Helps DC Students through
Upward Bound Program, Neglected Diseases Take Center Stage and more... |
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May 2006 - Cancer Gala honors Sam Donaldson, La Salle Leffall
Jr., Nueva Vida and ACS; GW Marks 25th Anniversary of Reagan Assassination; GW
Announces Charter of New HIV/AIDS Institute and more... |
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March 2006 - Match Day, VP Cheney Establish Cardiovascular
Institute at GW, Prime Minister of Slovakia Meets with GW Leaders and Students,
Students Raise Funds for DC Children, and more...
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January/February 2006 - New SPHHS students, Secretary Chertoff
Reviews Homeland Efforts, Jim Sherry Named Chair of Global Health, Thomas Jarrett
Named Urology Chair, students pursue work abroad, and more... |
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