Rosh Hashanah
L’Shanah Tovah to all celebrating the Jewish New Year.
Monday, September 6
6:00 p.m.

Additional High Holy Days services are included on the Campus Ministry website. Weather permitting, all services are in Dahlgren Quad behind Healy Hall. Masks required. Services open only to students, faculty and staff.
Save The Date
GUMC Staff/AAP Community Forum
Topic: Fall 2021 Operations

Friday, September 17
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Watch your email for the Zoom link.
GUMC Staff and AAP Community Forum 917
New Stories
A collaboration between Georgetown Law and Georgetown University Medical Center, the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance will work to provide area medical partners with specialized training and materials that help ensure at-risk families understand their housing rights, can access emergency rental assistance, and remain housed.
Matthew Kavanagh, PhD, assistant professor of international health at the School of Nursing & Health Studies and director of the Global Health Policy & Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, will serve as special advisor to the executive director for policy, advocacy and knowledge at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Infectious disease and public health specialist Jesse Goodman, MD, MPH, and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia discuss COVID-19 vaccines, including studies in children, third doses in immunocompromised individuals and “boosters.”
News and Announcements
The 25 x 2025 Initiative is intended to recruit new tenure-line faculty conducting basic, translational, clinical and population research that aligns with four of GUMC’s affirmed priority areas: global health, mind & brain, population health, and aging and age-related diseases. 
Proposals are due by September 22. Faculty members are encouraged to develop/submit a proposal as a “cluster leader.” Please review the 25 x 2025 faculty recruitment guidelines for details. Zoom information sessions on the initiative will be held via Zoom on September 10, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., and September 14, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Contact Jason Umans, MD, PhD, at jgu@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Upcoming Road Closures
Starting on or about September 13, the portion of Tondorf Road beginning at Darnall Hall and running north will be closed Monday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. through September 25. All sidewalks will remain open.
Road Closure
From September 14 through September 23, construction along West Road adjacent to the Leavey Center will require slight sidewalk and road detours just south of Lombardi Circle. Hours of impact will be 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. All northbound and southbound pedestrian and vehicular traffic will remain open; however, foot traffic will be routed to the west side sidewalk and vehicular lanes will shift during portions of the work. During this period, the mini shuttle will pick up passengers in front of the hotel. Signage will be provided and flaggers will be present to guide traffic during all impact hours.
Mind-body connections programming, resources from the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP), discussion groups for parents and meditation opportunities are all included in the new GUWellness newsletter. 
Press Release
Georgetown University researchers, led by Michael Ullman, PhD, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping target rehabilitation efforts.
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Calendar of Events
GUFaculty360 Class - Updating Your Profile
Wednesday, September 8
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 23
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Via Zoom

Learn how to upload your CV, add your personal website information, upload a syllabus, publications and more. Register 9/8 or 9/23.
Wednesday, September 8
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

Learn about research data management best practices and data requirements for NIH and NSF grants.
Thursday, September 9
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Via Zoom

A seminar and facilitated discussion with the editors and three of the authors of the report “Inoculating Cities: Case Studies of Urban Pandemic Preparedness” on the work done in cities to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, and how these concepts relate to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Global Health Initiative.
Thursday, September 9
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

Explore ways of screen sharing PowerPoint presentations in a Zoom meeting for online and in-class hybrid teaching.
Thursday, September 9
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

In this presentation in the series “Back to the Future: Maximizing Student Learning and Wellbeing in the Virtual Age,” Rachel Ellaway, PhD, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, presents “Creating Learning Entities: Augmentation in Health Professions Education.” Sponsored by the International Association of Medical Science Educators, offered by CENTILE. Register to receive weekly Zoom links.
Thursday, September 9
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

Paul Roepe, PhD, professor in Georgetown’s Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry & Cellular & Molecular Biology, presents “The Biochemistry of Antimalarial Drug Resistance.” Note: CME/CE credit is being offered for this seminar.
Friday, September 10
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Via WebEx (Meeting number: 129 006 0937 / Password: peds)

M. Miles Braun, MD, MPH, adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, presents “Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine for Cancer and for Us All.” Co-sponsored by the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and the Brandon Carrington Lee Foundation.
Friday, September 10
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom 

Nagi G. Ayad, PhD, professor, Oncology Department, Georgetown Lombardi, presents “Defining Efficacy and Resistance Mechanisms of Brain Cancer.”
Friday, September 10
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

Karen Elta Anderson, MD, director of the Huntington’s Disease Care, Education, and Research Center and professor of psychiatry and neurology at Georgetown, presents “Challenges of Clinical Trials for Neuropsychiatric Illness - Huntington’s Disease.” Co-sponsored by GHUCCTS and MedStar Health Research Institute.
Wednesday September 15
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Via Microsoft Teams

Presented by Kimberley Steele, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer, director of patient-led research, Lymphangiomatosis & Graham’s Disease Alliance. Sponsored by the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council for Quality and Safety. CME credit available.
Thursday, September 16
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

In this presentation in the series “Back to the Future: Maximizing Student Learning and Wellbeing in the Virtual Age,” Andrew Binks, PhD, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and Adam Weinstein, MD, Netter School of Medicine, present “Reminders, Refocusing and Rethinking: Med Ed after COVID.” Sponsored by the International Association of Medical Science Educators, offered by CENTILE. Register to receive weekly Zoom links.
Friday, September 17
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

H. Carrie Chen, MD, PhD, associate dean of assessment and educational scholarship and professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine, presents “Performance and Workplace-Based Assessments.”
Pedagogy + Technology
Instructional Resources Available for the Return to Campus
With the start of fall semester, CNDLS reminds faculty and students that extensive resources are available for them on the Instructional Continuity website, including this Return to Campus Checklist, Guide for Faculty and Guide for Students.
Monday - Friday,
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.;
Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

CETS is offering individual Zoom assistance. Meet with a member of the CETS staff via Zoom (meeting ID: 995-332-8350).
CNDLS Instructional Continuity Virtual Office Hours
Monday - Thursday,
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

CNDLS holds instructional continuity office hours virtually in this Zoom room. Please stop by if you need help or dial 646-558-8656
(meeting ID: 386 980 1070).
After hours, email cndls@georgetown.edu.
Thursday, September 9, 16, 23
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Via Zoom

Online office hours with UIS EdTech provide faculty and staff with assistance and answers to Canvas questions and assistance with all Canvas needs.
Friday, September 10, 17, 24
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom

Online office hours with UIS EdTech provide faculty and staff with assistance and answers to questions about instructional continuity tools: Panopto, Zoom, Voicethread and Canvas.
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