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MedStar Health Teaching and Research Scholars Capstone
The first virtual MedStar Health Teaching and Research Scholars Capstone program was held on Thursday, May 20th to celebrate education, innovation, and scholarship from our Teaching & Research Scholars. This event culminates the two years of research done by the scholars while in either program. It was also chance to view the works in progress of the scholars who have completed their 1st year.
Heather Hartman-Hall, PhD, Director of Residency Well-Being and Behavioral Health Education in the Internal Medicine Department at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, represented for the Teaching Scholars graduates and presented "We don’t really talk about it: Role Modeling and Coping with Patient Deaths in the ICU" (see poster). She was followed by Research Scholar, Pashna Munshi, MD, Associate Clinical Director of the Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, who presented, "We’re in This Together: Self-Preparedness, Caregiver Burden, and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patient/Caregiver Dyads in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Setting" (see poster).
Congratulations to all of our Teaching and Research Scholars for their achievement!
MedStar-Georgetown Surgical Disparities Grand Round
Join us on May 26, 2021 from 4:30pm-6pm for the MedStar-Georgetown Surgical Disparities Grands Rounds, presented by Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health featuring Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. as our keynote speaker on surgical disparities. Dr. Pérez-Stable will discuss "Promoting Health Equity in Surgical Care."
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. is Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and Principal Investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Pérez-Stable's research interests have centered on improving the health of racial/ethnic minorities and underserved populations, advancing patient-centered care, improving cross-cultural communication skills among health care professionals, and promoting diversity in the biomedical research workforce. Recognized as a leader in Latino health care and disparities research, Dr. Pérez-Stable has spent more than 30 years leading research on smoking cessation and tobacco control policy in Latino populations in the United States and Latin America.
Dr. Pérez-Stable has received many honors and awards throughout his career, including UCSF's Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Society of General Internal Medicine's John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research, and election to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences. He was honored with the UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award in July 2015. Dr. Pérez-Stable was born in Cuba and grew up in Miami, Florida. He earned his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Miami and his M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He completed his primary care internal medicine residency and research fellowship at UCSF.
We wish to extend our sincere gratitude for the hard work of our steering committee including Doctors: Angela Thomas, Deliya Wesley, Patrick Jackson, Jennifer Rosen, and David Stein.
We are honored to host Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and Principal Investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Please join us on Wednesday May 26th, 2021, 4:30-6pm Eastern Standard Time.
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https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/93973228013
On behalf of,
Neil J. Weissman, MD Chief Scientific Officer, MedStar Health Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University | Moshe Levi, MD Interim Dean for Research Georgetown University Medical Center |
David H. Song, MD, MBA, FACS Physician Executive Director, MedStar Health Integrated Surgical Services Professor and Chairman Department of Plastic Surgery Interim Chairman, Department of Surgery Georgetown University |
Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS Regional Chief of Surgical Oncology John S. Dillon Professor of Surgery Georgetown University and MedStar Health |