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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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Sep 2018

Georgetown Professor Writes Dramatic Memoir from an Italian Villa

Much like the Italian laborers who built Georgetown University's Villa le Balze estate atop a cliff in Tuscany, Professor of English John Glavin (C'64, Parent'95) devoted years and abundant patience...

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Sep 2018

What's in my white coat with Fernando Pagan

An interview with Fernando Pagan (M’96, R’00), a movement disorders neurologist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Georgetown Medicine Magazine

Apr 2018

Reflections on Medicine with Sylvia Morris

Sylvia Morris (M’98)

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Apr 2018

What's in my white coat with Charles Read

An interview with Charles “Chip” Read (M’85, R’88, W’91), a pulmonary and critical care physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

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Apr 2018

In Perfect Harmony

“We don’t really understand why creativity is so healing. But it’s restorative, like sleep, and nobody understands that either.” — Dr. Caroline Wellbery, Arts & Medicine’s faculty advisor.

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Apr 2018

Neuroscience and the Arts

Researchers study perception of beauty, the neurological dominance of music, and the power of creativity.

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Apr 2018

Brain Death Symposium Explores Questions for Our Time

Renowned medical ethicist Melissa Moschella, PhD did at a recent day-long Georgetown symposium on “Brain Death: New Questions for Philosophy and Theology.”

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