MedStar Health News

Barbara S. Bregman, PhD, senior research scientist and director of education and training with MedStar NRH Research Division, and a professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Center for Brain Plasticity at Georgetown University, is the recipient of the 28th Annual John W. Goldschmidt Award.

Fifty middle-school girls from Washington, D.C., public and charter schools worked over two days to design mobile applications to help youth develop healthy habits and reduce stress during the first-ever DigiGirlz Health Hackathon in the D.C. region. 

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has been honored with the 2016 “Partner for Change” award.

The hospital brought home two awards from the Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 15, 2016 — MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (MedStar NRH) hosted its 30th anniversary Victory Awards® Gala and raised $135,000 for MedStar NRH Adaptive Sports on Wednesday, April 20.

Alexander Dromerick, MD, MedStar NRH VP of the Research Division and Chair and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University, along with being the co-director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery (a joint program between Georgetown University and MedStar NRH), recently had a very prestigious article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).