Health & Medicine

Mary Roney (B’76) with Dr. Fernando Pagan, director of the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, one of only 31 U.S. “Centers for Excellence,” as designed by the…

Photo: Courtesy of LeRoy Graham Many people with treatable health conditions end up in the emergency room because they lack access to primary care and cutting-edge medications, says pediatric pulmonologist…

Photo: Courtesy of Samantha Ahdoot Samantha Ahdoot, M.D. (M’99), has a special interest in the environmental effects of health in children. Joining the Pediatric Associates of Alexandria in 2003, Ahdoot…

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students were trying to determine if a shark attack victim would survive. They weren’t huddled around a hospital bed, however: they were at the National…

A two-pronged approach to imaging breast density in mice, developed by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, resulted in better detection of changes in breast tissue, including spotting early…

Mansa Gurjar, PhD, a postdoctoral student in Georgetown's biology department, is studying neurodevelopment defects that can lead to hearing loss.

The Early Years of AIDS Care at Georgetown…

Based in Seattle, Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD (C'95, M'99), completed her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the University of Washington.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School…

I spend every day in the cath lab, wearing scrubs and a surgical gown or lead apron, doing heart catheterizations and valve replacement procedures, with no outpatient or hospital duties.