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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 systems…

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, PhD,…

August 15, 2013