| School and Students |
 Jennifer Mulla (NHS'08),
a human science major, presented at the American Association
of Cancer Research's Annual meeting in San Diego. Read
more.
The Department of Health Systems Administration hosted
a ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students who
were inducted into Upsilon Phi Delta. Read
more.
Silpa
Thaivalappil (NHS’10), an international
health and pre-med major at NHS, was recently awarded a
Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department
of State and the Council of American Overseas Research
Centers. Read more.
D.C.
Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) visited
NHS on Monday, March 31, to launch a new employee training
program for city residents. Read
more.
Thirty
undergraduate students presented their science and health-related
research at the sixth annual Georgetown University Undergraduate
Research Conference. Read
more.
NHS's
nationally ranked Nurse
Midwifery Program is hosting two events this spring
and summer. Read
more.
Enrique
Ruelas Barajas, M.D.,
secretary of the General Health Council of Mexico, keynotes
the McAuley
Lecture Series hosted by NHS. Read
more.
New
Regional Partnership Aims to Strengthen Local Health Care
Delivery: Georgetown University, Washington
Hospital Center Team Up On Nursing Workforce. Read
more.
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| Faculty and Research |
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.
Pablo
Irusta, Ph.D., assistant professor of human science
at NHS, is profiled on the Georgetown University Web
site. Read
more.
Edilma
Yearwood, Ph.D., assistant
professor of nursing at NHS, will make three presentations
this spring and summer in Kentucky, South Carolina, and
Germany. Read more.
The
O’Neill
Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown
University announced that Jeffrey Collmann, Ph.D.
joined its leadership team. Read
more.
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In the News |
Michael Relf, Ph.D., chair of the Department
of Nursing at NHS, and Elizabeth Wykpisz, interim chief
nursing officer at Washington Hospital Center, co-authored
an op-ed in the Baltimore
Sun about the nursing shortage
and the organizations' new $2 million partnership to
launch a second degree scholarship program.
Craig T. Ramey, Ph.D., director of the
Center on Health and Education at NHS, was quoted in
The
Washington Post about a new study detailing various
indicators of childhood progress.
David
Fajgenbaum (NHS'07) talked to the
Today
Show recently about the group he started, National
Students of Ailing Mothers & Fathers.
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