Participants in the Health Workforce Innovation Project, a joint effort of Georgetown University Hospital, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Health Systems Administration at NHS, earned certificates at the program’s closing ceremony. Read more.

NHS and the Office of Advancement announced the hire of Kate Paulsen as the school's new director of development. Read more.

In July, NHS introduced a brand new pediatric simulator to the school's O'Neill Family Foundation Clinical Simulation Center. Read more.

Pathways to Success program, funded by founding sponsor the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is covered on Georgetown University Web site.

Throughout the summer months, many NHS students and faculty members are participating in a range of health-related special programs. Read more.

Congratulations NHS Class of 2008!  During a beautiful Washington day on Saturday, May 17, members of the School of Nursing & Health Studies Class of 2008 received their degrees. Read more.

NHS senior Emily Herzberg, a human science major, was selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright award. Read more.

Jennifer Mulla (NHS'08), a human science major, presented at the American Association of Cancer Research's Annual meeting in San Diego. Read more.

J.P. Hyatt, assistant professor of human science, and recent graduate Elizabeth Kander (NHS'08), co-authored a recent article in the journal Muscle & Nerve. Read more.

NHS professors Kathryn Ellis and Colleen Norton meet with Brunei Minister of Education Pehin Abdul Rahman Taib. Read more.

On Tuesday, June 3, Frank Y. Wong, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of International Health, is taking part in a national videoconference. Read more.

Ladan Eshkevari, assistant director of the nationally ranked Nurse Anesthesia Program at NHS, has been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health’s 2008 Summer Genetics Institute. Read more.

Edilma L. Yearwood, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing at NHS, has been recently selected as a U.S. Fulbright Senior Specialist. Read more.

Bernhard Liese, M.D., chair of the Department of International Health, has joined the executive committee of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis. Read more.

Several faculty members in the Department of Nursing will present at the National Teaching Institute of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, May 2008. Read more.

Mayri Sagady Leslie, a faculty member in the nationally ranked Nurse Midwifery Program at NHS, has published a chapter in the brand new book Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. Read more.

Employment Opportunities

The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate recently covered the Pathways to Success program.

Medill News Service recently covered the $2 million nursing scholarship program that NHS and Washington Hospital Center launched.

Ryan Lynch (G'09), a graduate student in the Department of Health Systems Administration, co-authored an op-ed on health care reform that appeared in the Boston Herald.

Edilma Yearwood, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing at NHS, was featured in a second column in The Hartford Courant about the mental health of immigrant children.

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