Tag: Howard University Hospital

COVID-19

Howard University Hospital Doctors Prepare For a Potential Surge in COVID-19 Patients

For infectious diseases doctor Siham Mahgoub, some diligent “detective work” and plenty of curiosity are what many medical breakthroughs in challenging patient cases are made of. Now that she is on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mahgoub admits that the stakes are higher and the learning curve is steep, but her approach remains the same.

April 30, 2020

Health

Howard Professor and Surgeon Promotes Minority Organ Donation

Since the early 1980s, when transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender began addressing the issues that kept African-Americans from being organ donors, he has seen the rate of organ donation increase significantly. In the recently published paper, “Expanding the journey of saving lives,” Callender and co-author Dr. Patrice V. Miles examined how the increase has been achieved and how other minority populations can use similar means to bring about increases.

August 9, 2019

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Howard University Hospital Labor Negotiations Delayed

Although Howard University Hospital’s resident physicians and interns voted to unionize on January 30, residents and their employer have yet to sit down to negotiate their contracts.

April 19, 2015

HBCUs

E. Ethelbert Miller Among Those Let Go at Howard

In an April 2 letter to the campus community, Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick announced the firing of 84 Howard staffers, effective immediately.

April 6, 2015

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Howard University Hospital Doctors Unionizing

The debate about unionization in higher education is no longer limited to adjuncts. Now university hospital doctors are getting in the mix.

February 1, 2015

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Howard University Expands its Medical Reach in D.C.

Howard University Hospital will team up with Paladin Healthcare to take over southeast D.C.’s United Medical Center, in a proposal that was announced Tuesday.

December 17, 2014