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Transforming Medicine Through Technology
MinION is reshaping the field of medicine, and on April 26, 2018, Georgetown University Systems Medicine master’s students were the first cohort to experience this technical…
November 22, 2019
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Student Profile – Grant Kern
Grant Kern, M.S. in Systems Medicine, has had a keen interest in using science to improve people's lives since elementary school. He is currently applying to medical schools, and…
September 18, 2018
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Machine Learning Course at Georgetown University Systems Medicine Program
In September 2018, Pine Biotech started a pilot course on Machine Learning for Biomedical Data at the Georgetown University Medical Center offered to the Masters Systems Medicine…
September 13, 2018
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System Medicine Scholarship Honors the Late Robert Ledley
The late Robert S. Ledley, DDS, a pioneer of medical informatics, was known for making several contributions to the field of biomedical research, including the invention of the…
December 8, 2017
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Systems Medicine: Computing the State of the Body
"Several Good Practices [in Systems Medicince] are already in place, such as the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), the E-Cell, as well as established educational curricula such…
March 16, 2017
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Faculty Spotlight: Sona Vasudevan
Dr. Sona Vasudevan, Program Director of Systems Medicine, shares her journey in coming to Georgetown.…
February 16, 2017
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International Meeting to Promote Systems and Complexity in Medicine
Georgetown is hosting a pioneering international conference in November that aims to promote a new way to practice medicine—combining the ethos of early medical wisdom with…
August 28, 2014
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Systems Medicine: Expert Commentary by Dr. Howard Federoff
Dr. Howard J. Federoff, executive vice president for health science and executive dean for the School of Medicine, discusses his vision for systems medicine, an approach that…
May 1, 2014
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Symposium Drives Connections Between Big Data and Precision Medicine
Sister Grace Miriam Usala (M’16) sits squarely at the intersection of two related, yet disconnected, fields. Usala is also simultaneously pursuing her master’s degree in…
October 17, 2013
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Learning the Language of Medicine to Come
“It takes a village of collaborators to make this degree possible, and we have a very wonderful village here,” says the director of the dual degree program, Sona Vasudevan,…
August 15, 2013