Washington, DC – At Georgetown’s School of Medicine, future doctors learn how to provide the best, most compassionate care. But they also learn about health care policy, health inequities and, in some cases, advocacy for those most in need.
On Wednesday night, five of these students will have an opportunity to share what they’ve learned and to inquire about President Barack Obama’s vision for health care. They have been selected to participate in a special taping at the White House of an ABC News television program – Primetime’s “Questions for the President: Prescription for America.”
The show will be moderated by ABC anchors Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer. The hour-long show airs Wednesday night at 10:00 pm ET on the ABC Television Network.
The Georgetown students selected include Erica Adams, J. Ryan Macdonell, Joseph Murray, Ian Tuznik and Mary Vigil. They were chosen from a group of 46 Georgetown medical students who submitted questions for the President at the invitation of ABC News. While these five students will attend the taping with President Obama, all of the students’ questions will be sent directly to the President in a letter written by Claiborne Childs, GUSOM student body president.
“At Georgetown, our mission statement calls us to be compassionate physicians, dedicated to the care of others and the health needs of our society,” says Childs in the letter. “Like other future doctors nationwide, we are very concerned about healthcare reform. We are closely watching and participating in the debate regarding this critical issue.”
The letter to the President including the questions asked by the students, can be found here.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through Georgetown’s affiliation with MedStar Health). GUMC’s mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally ranked, the world-renowned Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), home to 60 percent of the university’s sponsored research funding.
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