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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.

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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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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