{{Short description|Medical school in Washington, D.C., US}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox university | name = Georgetown University School of Medicine | image_name = Georgetown University Seal.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert | image_size = 150px | image_alt = A vertical oval-shaped black and white design with a bald eagle whose wings are spread and which is grasping a globe and a cross with its claws. Around the seal are leaves and the numbers 17 and 89 appear on either side. | caption = Seal of Georgetown University | established = {{start date and age|1851}} | type = Private | parent = Georgetown University | affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuit) | endowment = | dean = Norman J. Beauchamp, MD, MHS | students = 830 | city = Washington, D.C. | state = | country = USA | campus = Urban | website = {{URL | http://som.georgetown.edu}} | faculty = 1,638 | administrative_staff = }}
'''Georgetown University School of Medicine''' is a private medical school in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1851, it is one of Georgetown University's five graduate schools. It is located on Reservoir Road in the Georgetown neighborhood adjacent to the university's main campus. The School of Medicine works in association with the 609-bed MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and nine other affiliated federal and community hospitals in the Washington metropolitan area. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic medical school in the United States.
The School is part of the Georgetown University Medical Center, which comprises roughly 80% of the research initiatives occurring at Georgetown University as a whole. It is the closest academic medical center in proximity to the National Institutes of Health. Georgetown and the NIH offer a combined GU-NIH PhD program in biomedical research to foster direct collaboration between the neighboring institutions.<ref>{{cite web|title=GU-NIH Graduate Partnership Programs in Biomedical Sciences|url=https://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/georgetown-university-national-institutes-of-health-sponsored-programs-gu-nih-graduate-partnership-programs-in-biomedical-sciences-000_10015462.aspx|publisher=Peterson's|access-date=19 March 2017|archive-date=27 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027231519/https://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/georgetown-university-national-institutes-of-health-sponsored-programs-gu-nih-graduate-partnership-programs-in-biomedical-sciences-000_10015462.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>
Technology leading to the introduction of the HPV vaccine, was developed at Georgetown Medical Center by Richard Schlegel.<ref>{{cite news|last1=SooHoo|first1=Cheryl|title=Alum Dick Schlegel Gives Cancer Prevention His Best Shot|url=http://www.wardrounds.northwestern.edu/winter-2011-12/alumni-news/alumni-profile/alum-dick-schlegel/|access-date=19 March 2017|work=Ward Rounds|publisher=Northwestern University|date=Winter 2011–12|archive-date=16 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816233706/http://www.wardrounds.northwestern.edu/winter-2011-12/alumni-news/alumni-profile/alum-dick-schlegel/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==History== thumb|Medical & Dental School Building (south side) In 1849, four Catholic doctors frustrated with what they felt were discriminatory practices at neighboring Columbian College, limiting Catholic doctors' access to the clinical facilities of the Washington Infirmary, petitioned Georgetown President James A. Ryder to found a medical program.<ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Neill|first1=Paul R.|last2=Williams|first2=Paul K.|title=Georgetown University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peQeOeO39JMC|date=2003|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=0738515094}}</ref> Classes commenced in May 1851 and were only held at night until 1895. In 1852, the school awarded its first medical doctorates.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Memorial of the First Century of Georgetown College, D.C.: Comprising a History of Georgetown University|last=Shea|first=John Gilmary|publisher=P. F. Collier|year=1891|volume=3|location=New York|pages=176|chapter=Chapter XXIII: Father Charles H. Stonestreet, S.J.|oclc=612832863|author-link=John Gilmary Shea|access-date=January 12, 2019|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdRAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA172|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112050246/https://books.google.com/books?id=YdRAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA172|archive-date=January 12, 2019|url-status=live|via=Google Books}}</ref>
In 1898 the Georgetown University Hospital was established. A dental department was created in 1901, which became independent of the School of Medicine in 1951 as the School of Dentistry.<ref name="1930-60">{{Cite web|url=http://alumni.georgetown.edu/schoolsprograms/schoolsprograms_36.html|title=Dental Alumni History: 1930–1960|website=alumni.georgetown.edu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910201348/http://alumni.georgetown.edu/schoolsprograms/schoolsprograms_36.html|archive-date=September 10, 2015|access-date=September 12, 2015}}</ref> In 1930, classes moved to the main campus. In July 2000, Georgetown University and MedStar Health, a not-for-profit organization of seven Baltimore and Washington hospitals, entered into a clinical partnership to provide management of clinical care and clinical education at Georgetown University Hospital.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Avram|title=MedStar, GU Strike Hospital Deal|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/18/047r-021800-idx.html|access-date=19 March 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=18 February 2000|archive-date=19 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319111718/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/18/047r-021800-idx.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, the School of Medicine opened the Integrated Learning Center (ILC), which supports the School of Medicine's emphasis on a patient-centered, competence-based curriculum and provides the latest methods of clinical teaching and evaluation.
==Curriculum== thumb|Georgetown University Hospital The Georgetown University School of Medicine Faculty includes 1,638 faculty members from 8 basic science and 16 clinical departments, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and two Interdisciplinary Training Program Grants funded by the NIH – one in Neuroscience, and one in Tumor Biology.
The School of Medicine offers an MD with a Research Track where MD students spend time in the laboratory and develop a research thesis in their specialty. This is different from the MD/PhD program, which is longer and requires a PhD thesis.
The School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences cooperate to offer a combined-degree program that leads to an MD and a PhD in a chosen concentration. A spot is reserved in this program each year for one student interested in pursuing a Philosophy & Bioethics PhD;<ref>{{cite web|title=M.D./Ph.D. Program|url=https://som.georgetown.edu/prospectivestudents/degrees/mdphd|website=Georgetown University School of Medicine|access-date=19 March 2017}}</ref> all other spots are undifferentiated but must be directed toward a scientific specialty. Research at Georgetown is especially strong in the areas of cancer and the neurosciences. Other combined degree programs include BA/MD (early selection route for Georgetown University undergraduates), MD/MBA, and MD/MS.
===Programs=== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * Anesthesia * Biochemistry & Molecular Biology * Biomathematics & Statistics * Cell Biology * Dermatology * Emergency Medicine * Family Medicine * Graduate Biomedical Education * Medicine * Microbiology & Immunology * Neurology * Neurosurgery * Obstetrics & Gynecology * Oncology {{col-2}} * Ophthalmology * Orthopaedic Surgery * Otolaryngology * Pathology * Pediatrics * Pharmacology * Physiology & Biophysics * Psychiatry * Radiation Medicine * Radiology * Surgery * Urology {{col-end}}
==Campus== thumb|Sunset over the Medical & Dental School Building Georgetown University Medical Center comprises the School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies (founded in 1903), Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Biomedical Graduate Education. In 2008, GUMC brought in $132 million in sponsored research funds, most of which was federally funded. Clinical care is provided at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and other locations through a partnership with MedStar Health.
== List of deans ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |+ {{sronly|Deans}} |- ! scope="col" | {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! scope="col" | Name ! scope="col" | Years ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Refh}} |- | align="center" |1 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Johnson|Elliot|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1851–1876 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-1-367">{{Harvnb|Curran|2010a|p=367|last1=|year=|loc=Appendix D: Presidents, Prefects, and Deans in Georgetown's First Century}}</ref> |- | align="center" |2 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|Reyburn|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1876–1877 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-1-367" /> |- | align="center" |3 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Francis Asbury|Ashford|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1877–1883 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-1-367" /> |- | align="center" |4 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|James William|Lovejoy|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1883–1888 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-1-367" /> |- | align="center" |5 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|C. Lloyd|Magruder|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1888–1901 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-1-367" /> |- | align="center" |6 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|George M.|Kober|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1901–1928 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400">{{Harvnb|Curran|2010b|p=400|loc=Appendix E: Deans of the Medical School, 1889–1974}}</ref> |- | align="center" |7 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|John A.|Foote|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1929–1931 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |8 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|William Gerry|Morgan|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1931–1935 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |9 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|David V.|McCauley|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}} | align="center" |1935–1946 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |10 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Paul A.|McNally|link=Paul McNally (astronomer)}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}} | align="center" |1946–1953 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |11 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Francis M.|Forster}} | align="center" |1953–1958 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |12 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Hugh H.|Hussey|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1958–1963 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |13 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|John C.|Rose|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1963–1974 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-2-400" /> |- | align="center" |14 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|John P.|Utz|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1974–1979 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-3-293">{{Harvnb|Curran|2010c|p=293|loc=Appendix E: Deans of the Medical School, 1963–2010}}</ref> |- | align="center" |15 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|John Bernard|Henry|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1979–1984 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-3-293" /> |- | align="center" |16 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Milton|Corn|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1984–1989 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-3-293" /> |- | align="center" |17 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Maxted|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1989–1998 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-3-293" /> |- | align="center" |18 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Carolyn|Rabinowitz|nolink=1}} | align="center" |1998–2002 | align="center" |<ref name="curran-3-293" /> |- | align="center" |19 ! scope="row" |{{sortname|Stephen Ray|Mitchell|nolink=1}} | align="center" |2002–2020 | align="center" |<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chervu |first1=Nikhil |last2=Saxon |first2=David |date=June 22, 2020 |title=Hoya Saxa: An Interview with Dean Stephen Ray Mitchell |url=https://gmr.scholasticahq.com/article/13145-hoya-saxa-an-interview-with-dean-stephen-ray-mitchell |url-status=live |journal=Georgetown Medical Review |volume=4 |issue=1 |doi=10.52504/001c.13145 |s2cid=225753771 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806113001/https://gmr.scholasticahq.com/article/13145-hoya-saxa-an-interview-with-dean-stephen-ray-mitchell |archive-date=August 6, 2021|doi-access=free }}</ref> |- | align="center" |20 ! scope="row"|Leon Jones | align="center" |2021-2024 | align="center" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 30, 2021 |title=Meet Leon 'Lee' Jones, Georgetown's New Dean for Medical Education |url=https://gumc.georgetown.edu/special-stories/meet-the-new-dean-for-medical-education-at-georgetown/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125191355/https://gumc.georgetown.edu/special-stories/meet-the-new-dean-for-medical-education-at-georgetown/ |archive-date=January 25, 2022 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=Georgetown University Medical Center}}</ref> |- |21 !Norman J. Beauchamp Jr. |2024–present |<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Deans |url=https://som.georgetown.edu/medicaleducation/the-deans/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=School of Medicine |language=en-US}}</ref> |}
==Notable alumni== {{Main|List of Georgetown University alumni}} {| ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Name ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Degree and year received ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Accomplishments |- |John Barrasso |C 1974, M 1978 |United States Senator from Wyoming, 2007–present |- |width=150px |Mark R. Dybul |width=150px |C 1985, M 1992 |United States Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, 2006–2008 |- |David John Doukas |M 1983 |Tulane University; Director of the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values, James A. Knight Chair in Medical Humanities and Ethics |- |Marguerite M. Engler |Ph.D. – 1988 |Nurse scientist and physiologist, acting scientific director of the National Institute of Nursing Research's division of intramural research, 2012 |- |Marie R. Griffin |M 1976 |Vaccine researcher; Professor of Medicine and Endowed Director of Public Health Research and Education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center |- |David A. Hidalgo |C 1974, M 1978 |Reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgeon, author, and visual artist; Clinical Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College |- |valign=top|Susan Hockfield |valign=top| Med Ph.D. – 1979 |valign=top|Neuroscientist; President, MIT, 2004–2012; Provost, Yale University, 2003–04; Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998–2000; |- |Thea L. James |M 1991 |Associate Professor, Associate Chief Medical Officer, and Vice President of the Mission at the Boston Medical Center |- |valign=top|Kevin C. Kiley |valign=top| M 1976 |valign=top|Lt. Gen. Kiley is the 41st Surgeon General of the Army and Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, 2004–2007 |- |valign=top|Antonia Novello |valign=top|Hospital Fellow 1975 |valign=top|Surgeon General of the United States, 1990–93 |- |valign=top|Esam Omeish |valign=top|C 1989, M 1993 |valign=top|former President of the Muslim American Society |- |valign=top|Thomas Parran Jr. |valign=top|M 1915 |valign=top|Surgeon General of the United States, 1936–48 |- |Sean P. Pinney |C 1990, M 1994 |Cardiologist |- |Robert R. Redfield |C 1973, M 1977 |Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018–2021 |- |valign=top|John J. Ring |valign=top|C 1949, M 1953 |valign=top|former President, American Medical Association |- |Jordan Shlain |M 1994 |Primary care physician; chairman and founder of Private Medical, a family office for health and medicine; founder of HealthLoop, a cloud-based clinical engagement platform |- |valign=top|Lana Skirboll |valign=top|Ph.D – 1977 |valign=top|former Director, National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy |- |William Kennedy Smith |M 1991 |Founder, Center for International Rehabilitation and Physicians Against Land Mines; member of the Kennedy family |- |valign=top|Solomon Snyder |valign=top|C 1959, M 1962 |valign=top|Neuroscientist |- |Robert Stein |M 1866 |German-American translator, interpreter of Eskimo–Aleut languages, and amateur Arctic explorer |- |valign=top|Andrew von Eschenbach |valign=top|M 1967 |valign=top|Director, Food and Drug Administration, 2006–2009; Director, National Cancer Institute, 2002–05; Director, BioTime, a biotechnology company, 2011–present |- |William B. Walsh |M 1943 |Founder of Project HOPE; humanitarian aid activist; first U.S. physician on the ground in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom |- |}
==References==
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=== Sources === * {{Cite book |last=Curran |first=Robert Emmett |title=A History of Georgetown University, From Academy to University, 1789—1889 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |year=2010a |isbn=978-1-58901-689-7 |volume=1 |location=Washington, D.C.}} * {{Cite book |last=Curran |first=Robert Emmett |title=A History of Georgetown University: The Quest for Excellence, 1889–1964 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |year=2010b |isbn=978-1-58901-689-7 |volume=2 |location=Washington, D.C. |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Curran |first=Robert Emmett |title=A History of Georgetown University: The Rise to Prominence, 1964—1989 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |year=2010c |isbn=978-1-58901-691-0 |volume=3 |location=Washington, D.C. |language=en}}
==External links== * [http://som.georgetown.edu Georgetown University School of Medicine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107023345/http://som.georgetown.edu/ |date=2007-01-07 }}
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