The official Twitter for
@Georgetown
University School of Medicine. Educating skillful, ethical and compassionate physicians & biomedical scientists since 1851.
Today, we announced Leon “Lee” Jones, MD, as the newly appointed Dean of Medical Education. We are elated to have him join us in August. You can get to know him a little more here: .
Dr. Anthony Fauci will serve as a Distinguished University Professor in
@GUMedicine
's Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, starting July 1. He will also hold an additional appointment in the university’s
@McCourtSchool
.
Happy Birthday, Dean Mitchell! Thank you for your passion and commitment to the GUSOM community. Wishing you a year full of happy moments and bright bowties!
#HoyaSaxa
🥳 💙
We're thrilled to announce the reopening of the HOYA Clinic on Tuesday evenings! Less than a year after the closing of DC General Family Shelter, the HOYA Clinic has opened a new location for clients at The Triumph, a
@COHDC
temporary housing facility in Southeast DC.
More than 500 medical students signed an open letter to university leadership at
@Georgetown
, prompting immediate action including the development of a GUMC committee to help eliminate systemic racism and promote diversity. Read here: .
At 43, Sarah Stewart, the scientist who revealed the missing link between viruses and cancer, was the first woman to earn a
@Georgetown
medical degree. Learn more about this remarkable Hoya in
@SmithsonianMag
:
Medical students
@Georgetown
in the
#HealthJustice
Scholars track are on Capitol Hill today advocating for various issues that affect health and health care in the U.S. 🇺🇸 ⚖️
Congratulations to Georgetown's
@DMarchalik
,
@TheLakshmiK
and Ricardo Ortiz for receiving an
@NEHgov
Humanities Connections Planning Grant to build a collaborative medical humanities program between
@Georgetown
and
@GUMedicine
. Stay tuned for details!
Wishing Dean Lee Jones and his family all the best as they start their 2,800 mile drive across the USA for their move to the Washington area. Daily updates here!
#ICYMI
:
@Georgetown
's Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, was selected as a fellow of
@RCPLondon
, a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Congratulations, Dr. Mitchell!
What is a virtual commencement without a virtual commencement photo of the Class of 2020? Thank you, Emily Lai, for updating the 2016 White Coat Ceremony photo to honor today.
#HoyaMD2020
#Hoyas2020
"With these murals we hope that future classes of GUSOM will be reminded of the extraordinary gift from our donors." Today, students from the Class of 2021 unveiled a mural they've been working on for over 2 weeks, bringing life to the hallways of the anatomy lab. ☀️💙🎨
Commencement speaker
@SusanHingle
, MD, shares four lessons with our graduates: 1) practice gratitude, 2) embrace the path less traveled, 3) get involved in advocacy and 4) never forget “cura personalis.”
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
Johan Clarke (M’19) is awarded the Family Medicine Community Service Award for his leadership in advancing community health partnerships — and shares a special moment with his father, Dr. Robert Clarke, dean for research, during the Warwick Evans Ceremony.
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
Happy
#ValentinesDay
, Hoyas! We thought we aorta tell you that we be-lung together. Love,
@GUMedicine
❤️ PS: We hope you find this somewhat humerus. 😂🦴
Happy 90th Birthday, Dr. Knowlan! 🥳 Thank you for your steadfast devotion to our
@Georgetown
community and the wisdom you've imparted to our students and faculty over the years. Thanks to you we'll always remember "the patient, the patient, the patient:"
Staying in DC for
#Thanksgiving
? President John J. DeGioia, Mrs. DeGioia & J.T. invite all
@Georgetown
students staying on campus to the President's Annual Thanksgiving Dinner on Wednesday, November 21. RSVP TODAY 11/19:
Stephen Ray Mitchell, (
@Sting64r
), will conclude his service as Dean for Medical Education on June 30th and will assume a new title of Dean Emeritus. Watch how SOM students honored Dean Mitchell with a video and musical tribute: .
Today, nine medical students from the class of 2019 reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S. military as new doctors. Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
#USArmedForcesDay
Congratulations! Our dean for medical education, Lee Jones, has been named chair-elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (
@AAMCtoday
) Board of Directors. He becomes chair-elect in November and assumes the chair role in the fall of 2023.
Since childhood, Malcolm Meredith (M’23) knew he wanted to be a surgeon. His experiences at our School of Medicine prompted him to focus on transplant medicine, a career he’ll pursue as a surgical resident at
@MedStarGUH
.
#HoyaMD2023
Can you still feel it? We hope the excitement, joy, hope, and the many emotions that rushed through your body when you found out where you matched never leave you. Grab the tissue and relive your Match Day! .
#GUMatch
#Match2022
“Introspection is an important component of resilience. It gives you a chance to make sense of your own experience and that’s the key to thriving.” Find out how
@Georgetown
is making changes that matter to support student mental health:
#MentalHealthMonth
Once a Hoya, always a Hoya. We're pleased to welcome back
@SusanHingle
, MD, professor of medicine and associate dean for human and organizational potential
@SIUSOM
as our 2019 Commencement speaker:
#HoyaMD19
#Hoyas2019
Physicians, faculty & students from
@Georgetown
testify in full support of the DC Council’s Proposed Resolution 23-990 to declare racism a public health crisis today @ 4. Info on how to watch and submit written testimony by 11/19:
Congratulations to
@ranitmd
for winning the silver award for "Best Commentary" from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors for her editorial, “What Needs to Change to Make Deprescribing Doable." Read the winning piece on
@AAFP
here:
#ICYMI
: The 203 members of
@Georgetown
's School of Medicine Class of 2023 gathered on August 2 for the White Coat Ceremony, their first big step in joining the medical profession:
#GeorgetownMed
We acknowledge the effects institutional and systemic racism has on our community and are committed to doing better & more in the quest for racial justice. Watch & listen as these advocates share more about our work ahead in the spirit of cura personalis.
#TBT
: Sarah E. Stewart was the first woman to graduate from
@Georgetown
's School of Medicine in 1949. She dedicated her career to cancer research & was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize. 🙌🔬
#LikeABoss
#WomenInSTEM
“Try to make it your mission in life and your career to make every single colleague, nurse, patient and person you encounter feel welcomed, heard & understood, and you will inspire them to be the best and truest version of themselves.” Lambda Faculty Award winner, Dr. Leah Orta.
Today we are hosting the last
#FellowsRCP
admission ceremony for 2019. Yearly over 1,200 of the most innovative and exceptional physicians are recognised by their peers with this honourable achievement. Congratulations everyone - this deserves celebrating! 🤩
Welcome, Stephen Ray Mitchell (
@Sting64r
) as Dean Emeritus!! It was an honor to have you serve as the dean for medical education for two decades. Thank you for your continued service and dedication! Watch the tribute to Mitchell from SOM students: .
It was the largest match in history this year with a record 38,376 applicants applying for 35,185 positions. ✉️ So, where did our Hoyas match? Get the
#GUMatch
recap:
#Match2019
Welcome to the
@Georgetown
University School of Medicine Class of 2024!! We share your excitement as you embark on your medical education journey! We look forward to the virtual White Coat Ceremony on August 21st!
#HoyaMD
#CuraPersonalis
“There are no easy paths to excellence. Your career in medicine will be the most fulfilling you can imagine. Whenever in doubt, remember the why that’s in your heart today.” Commencement speaker Thomas J. Nasca, MD
#HoyaMD2018
#Hoyas2018
Join us as we celebrate and honor our School of Medicine Class of 2020 during Commencement on Sunday, May 17th, at 11 am. We are delighted that
@Sting64r
will deliver a special address requested by the students. More info soon: .
#Hoyas2020
#HoyaMD2020
“The making of a physician is a long process... We need to be patient to what’s forming within ourselves.” Learn more about the sage advice bestowed upon the Class of 2022 during this year's White Coat Ceremony:
#GUWhiteCoat
🥼
Medical students making their way to the Hart Senate office building to advocate for school-based mental health services in grades K-12.
#HealthJustice
⚖️
We're so honored to have Dean Joy Williams forever with us as the newest portrait on GUSOM walls! May we continue to see more women faculty on our walls as part of GWIM's "Women on the Walls" campaign.
“That’s the focus of my talk this year ... The doctor has to be very focused on the patient.” Dr. Donald Knowlan prepares to inspire the Class of 2022 at today's
#GUWhiteCoat
Ceremony:
#HoyaMD
#CuraPersonalis
#TBT
: The School of Medicine graduation procession circa 1955. You're part of a long medical tradition, Hoyas. We can't wait to celebrate you this Sunday! 🎓💙
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
For medical students at
@Georgetown
, anatomy lab is a critical and transformative experience. At the Anatomical Donor Mass, the School of Medicine Class of 2025 honored the lives of those who made that experience possible.
Just coated my son in his virtual White Coat Ceremony! We’ve definitely come a long way from single father and son on Section 8 and food stamps.
So proud of this young man, a soon-to-be
@GUMedicine
doctor and world leader.
#BlessedDad
#BlessedSon
#GodIsGood
In the words of Dean Mitchell: "You don't choose the white coat. The white coat chooses you." When/Why did you feel called to become a doctor? Reply for a chance to get RT'd in honor of
#GUWhiteCoat
! 💙🥼
Happening now: Georgetown medical students teaching on the Hill about the use of naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose. Welcomed by Dr. Rahul Gupta, Director of National Drug Control Policy
Students are spread out across the Hill today advocating for legislation to improve health for students, veterans, the elderly, persons experiencing homelessness & women.
#HealthJustice
Dean Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, leads the class of 2019 in the Hippocratic Oath during the 2019 School of Medicine Commencement Ceremony.
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
New! “Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia.” This report from
@GtownNHS
delves into topics ranging from disease burden and education to economic status. Read report here: .
#healthdisparities
Dean Mitchell has his copy of the
@Georgetown
Medicine Magazine, DO YOU? The spring/summer issue focuses on mental health and wellness, covering topics like physician burnout, wellness in
#MedEd
, how culture shapes mental health & more:
#MentalHealthMonth
Earl Harley Jr., MD, professor of otolaryngology and pediatrics, and GUSOM’s first African American Learning Society namesake, led the Hippocratic Oath.
Welcome back to the Hilltop, M2s! We hope your second year of medical school is rewarding. We are excited to continue your medical school journey with you!
"Bullets do not only kill. They also maim. Too often, we stop talking about those who survived with injuries. Their lives, too, have been upended, sometimes in terrible ways."
@ranitmd
reminds us to consider survivors of gun violence:
It’s finally
#Match2021
! 🎉 We can’t wait to virtually share this special day with you! Join us today at 11:45 am EST on our Facebook page, , for remarks and a countdown to the big moment!
#TBT
Dear M4s, What an incredible journey! We join you in reflecting on the last four years since the first moment you donned your white coat.
#GUMatch
#Match2023
This evening, we wish to pay tribute to members of the Class of 2019 in the presence of family and friends. We continue to marvel at your capacity for work and study, and congratulate you on such high levels of academic achievement.
#HoyaMD2019
#Hoyas2019
#COVID19
shifted the health care system and led toward a heavy reliance on telehealth. Read how
@Georgetown
medical students stepped up and assisted
@MedStarHealth
in ramping up their telehealth capacity here: .
Our newly minted Hoya physicians are facing their greatest test by entering the medical field during the global pandemic,
#COVID19
. We talked to some recent grads about their preparation: .
#HoyaMD2020
#Hoyas2020
“I grew up in a small town in Illinois and was never expecting to go to
@Georgetown
, let alone be asked to come back and give a commencement address." We're honored to welcome
@SusanHingle
, MD, as our 2019 Commencement speaker:
#HoyaMD19
#Hoyas2019