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Welcome to GUMC

GUMC is an internationally recognized academic medical center whose missions of research, teaching and patient care are carried out with a strong emphasis on community outreach and the Jesuit principle of cura personalis — care of the whole person.

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Research

More than 400 GUMC scientists and physicians are conducting cutting-edge biomedical research, and undertaking more than 300 clinical trials on-site.

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Education

GUMC educates physicians, scientists, and health care professionals committed to the care of others and the health needs of society.

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Patient Care

Clinical care at Georgetown University Hospital is provided through its clinical partner, MedStar Health, the largest non-profit healthcare system in the mid-Atlantic region.

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A Passion to Solve Parkinson’s Mysteries

Lessons learned from his physician father partially inspired Fernando L. Pagan, MD (M’96) to solve the mysteries of Parkinson’s and other brain-related movement diseases at an elite Georgetown University Hospital clinic, where more than 2,000 patients are seen annually.

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Consortium Aims to Improve Health Care

Georgetown and Howard Universities have joined a well-funded national consortium of universities and hospital bent on overhauling, for the first time in more than 50 years, the way that translational science and clinical research are conducted in the United States.

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Emerging Biomedical Therapies Treat Pain

Pain, a confounding, complex spectrum of symptoms, is a small word for a vast continuum of hurt. Both widely used types of pain drugs carry dangerous side effects. Physicians are exploring innovative biomedical approaches like cell and blood based therapies to treat pain.

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