MedStar Health News

Three physicians from the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute traveled to the White House today for the Obama Administration’s Organ Summit aimed at setting new strategies to increase access to organ transplants and shorten the organ waiting list.

Jeffrey Edwards of Washington, D.C. can hardly believe that his 17 year battle with diabetes is over. His debilitating three-times-a-week dialysis sessions are finished. Read how MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute is curing Diabetes with Kidney/Pancreas Transplant.

Back in November 2015 Koepnick of Annandale, Virginia was feeling run down and had a persistent cough. A trip the emergency room and a series of tests revealed his leukemia.

In 2013 at the age of 53, Semple, a healthy trialthlete, was diagnosed with advanced cancer of the thymus, a small gland in the neck that produces T cells for the immune system.

MedStar Georgetown’s Michael Atkins, MD, translated his vast knowledge of cancer immunology into a classroom-style lecture Monday for a standing-room only Congressional briefing. Atkins and five other elite leaders in oncology research, advocacy and industry aimed to educate members of Congress and their staffs about various aspects of cancer.

Neal Bobys became the 1000th prostate cancer patient to be treated with CyberKnife at MedStar Georgetown.