Georgetown University School of Medicine has stood as a preeminent medical school for the better part of two centuries, recognized for a commitment to caring for the whole person, or cura personalis. That name now includes biomedical graduate programs and the biomedical research activities of Georgetown University Medical Center.
About Georgetown University School of Medicine
Within our medical and biomedical programs, our world-class faculty prepare our students to be knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate physicians and biomedical scientists who are dedicated to the care of others and health needs of our society. We nurture outstanding students from a variety of backgrounds, deliver extraordinary learning experiences, and inspire them to advance the common good as people for others.
In collaboration with our academic health system partner, MedStar Health — the largest integrated health system in the mid-Atlantic — Georgetown University School of Medicine provides an outstanding environment for our learners to bring caring and acquired knowledge to wherever their professional lives take them.
Leadership
Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., MD, MHS
Beauchamp serves as Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is also a tenured professor in the Department of Neurology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Riegel serves as Vice President for Biomedical Education and Research at Georgetown University Medical Center and Senior Associate Dean of Biomedical Graduate Education. She is also the Celia Rudman Fisher Endowed Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology at the School of Medicine.
MedStar Health is the largest integrated health system in the mid-Atlantic. Georgetown University and MedStar Health formed an academic health system partnership in 2000 and reaffirmed their commitment to it with a new 50-year agreement in 2017.
As an academic health system, Georgetown University and MedStar Health’s shared mission is to transform health and advance health equity through a partnership of research innovation, education expertise, compassionate care, and community collaboration.