Georgetown University School of Medicine

We welcomed our Class of 2030 at the White Coat Ceremony on August 7 in historic Gaston Hall. More than 200 incoming students received the coats that mark their entry into medicine.

The ceremony centered on cura personalis, care for the whole person, and the responsibility of wearing the coat. Executive Dean Norman Beauchamp, MD, MHS, told students that the coat stands as a visible pledge to their patients, colleagues, and themselves.

Each student found a handwritten note from an alum through the expanded Pockets of Hoya Letters initiative, a welcome into a community that spans generations of Hoya physicians.

The class was chosen from nearly 15,000 applicants and reflects the university's reach. California leads with 55 students, followed by Virginia with 23 and Maryland with 18, alongside classmates from New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. International students joined from Australia, China, Ethiopia, Japan, and South Korea.

Their backgrounds run wide. The cohort includes EMTs, mental health advocates, systems engineers, teaching assistants, authors, and competitive dancers who arrive with a record of service and human connection.

Welcome to Georgetown!

Read the full story at https://meded.georgetown.edu/news-stories/georgetown-school-of-medicine-welcomes-the-class-of-2030/.

White Coat Ceremony 2026 - School of Medicine - Georgetown The values defining a Georgetown medical education took center stage as the Class of 2030 gathered for this year’s White Coat Ceremony.

Welcome to Georgetown, Class of 2030.

Today, you will receive your white coat. That coat carries the trust of every patient, family and community you will serve and your promise to care for them with not only skill, but compassion.

Families, friends, faculty, and staff will celebrate this moment with you as your journey to being a future physician begins. We are proud of everything that brought you here and everything ahead of you.

Thank you to our alumni who wrote words of inspiration that are tucked in the pocket of our future-physicians’ new white coats.

Congratulations, future doctors. 🎉

A milestone worth celebrating: Georgetown University School of Medicine has received its first National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Scientist Training Program grant.

This federal award supports MD/PhD students who connect research at the bench with care at the bedside. For more than three decades, our physician-scientists graduates have gone on to lead in academic medical centers and advance innovation across biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and beyond.

Georgetown has long led in preparing physician-scientists who bring together scientific excellence and ethical insight. Distinguishing this program further is its pathway in bioethics, grounded in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, which prepares graduates to address the scientific challenges ahead and the ethical questions they raise.

Congratulations to Dr. Todd Waldman, Dr. Peter Turkeltaub, and Dr. Daniel Sulmasy for their leadership, and we thank the many faculty, students, staff and alumni whose decades of scholarship, mentorship and collaboration made this achievement possible. 💙

With the increase in extreme weather patterns and other environmental disrupters, it is important for future physicians to understand how these changes impact patient health and healthcare delivery. The Environmental Health and Medicine track aims to create a generation of physicians who are prepared to treat a patient population in the context of these environmental changes. Learn more about this track at https://meded.georgetown.edu/medicaleducation/longitudinal-academic-track/envirohealthandmedicine/

Environmental Health and Medicine Track - Medical Education About the Environmental Health and Medicine Track Increasingly, we as a global society must confront a range of threats affecting health. Sustained heat in excess of 1.5 C is predicted for the near future and will have major repercussions for health, mediated by extreme weather, ecosystem collapse,....

New research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference brings encouraging news for families facing late-stage dementia.

The LiBBY trial, led by Brigid Reynolds, MSN, APRN, ANP-BC (Georgetown University) and Jacobo Mintzer, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) , tested a specially formulated combination of THC and CBD in 120 hospice-eligible participants experiencing dementia-related agitation.

Agitation, including restlessness, aggression, and emotional distress, is one of the most difficult symptoms for people with dementia and their caregivers, and current treatments are limited. This first-of-its-kind trial offers hope for a safer, more effective option.

The results of the study revealed that close to 90% of participants who received the treatment showed overall improvement after 12 weeks, with benefits sustained through 24 weeks.

Researchers emphasize this is a carefully formulated, medically supervised treatment, not equivalent to commercial dispensary or online THC/CBD products.

https://medicine.georgetown.edu/news-releases/combination-of-thc-and-cbd-significantly-reduced-agitation-in-people-with-late-stage-dementia/

The trial was supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant and by the Alzheimer's Association. The study authors wish to express their gratitude to the LiBBY study participants and their caregivers and families, who generously volunteered their time to make this study possible.

THC-CBD Combo Reduces Agitation - School of Medicine - Georgetown Researchers have found that a special medical formulation of two active ingredients in ma*****na reduced agitation in people with dementia.

✨ Registration for Medical & Dental Reunion 2026 is NOW OPEN!

Visit g.town/MedDentReunion2026 for more details. Highlights include:

🔹Medical & Dental Alumni Welcome Reception | Friday, Nov 6 | Oak and Laurel Restaurant, Hoya Hotel

🔹Breakfast with the Deans | Saturday, Nov 7 | The Hoya Hotel Ballroom

🔹Hoyas on Call: A Luncheon with Medical Alumni and Students | Saturday, Nov 7 | Healey Family Student Center

🔹Class Parties | Saturday, Nov 7 | The Class of 1976 - 2021 will be celebrating School of Medicine memories across Georgetown.

REGISTER 👉 g.town/MedDentReunion2026

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The Clinical Research Scholars Track is a longitudinal academic track designed for students interested in engaging in substantial clinical or translational research. This track aims to help students develop a solid foundation in key skills such as protocol design, data analysis, and manuscript writing that would further their skills as medical students, residents, and future physician investigators. Learn more about this track at https://meded.georgetown.edu/medicaleducation/longitudinal-academic-track/clinical-research-track/

Clinical Research Scholars Track - Medical Education About the Clinical Research Scholars Track The Clinical Research Scholars Track is a longitudinal academic track designed for students interested in engaging in substantial clinical or translational research. The aim of this track is to help students develop a solid foundation in key skills such as....

📢 Calling all Georgetown medical alumni! Every incoming first-year medical student will benefit from a little inspiration to guide them along their medical school journey, and you can be the one to give it.

Join Pockets of Hoya Letters, a White Coat Campaign initiative, by writing a short note of encouragement to an incoming medical student. Your words will be tucked into a white coat pocket and revealed at the White Coat Ceremony on Friday, August 7, 2026.

We're aiming for 207 notes, one for every new student, and we need your help to achieve our goal. Add yours: https://g.town/pocketsofhoyaletters