Betty Lou Ourisman Breast Health Center
The comprehensive breast center provides breast cancer screening services for women. Services include assessment of individual risk factors for cancer; personalized instruction in breast self-examination; evaluation and monitoring of benign breast conditions; access to a full range of breast imaging services; second opinions regarding mammograms, pathology reports, and/or biopsy recommendations; and, if indicated, referral to specialized services, including surgeons and oncologists. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is one of the first hospitals to offer digital mammography.
Contact names: Shawna Willey, MD; Robert Warren, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-3315
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Breast Cancer Consultation Group
For women with newly diagnosed breast cancer, this service offers simultaneous consultation with a surgeon, radiation oncologist, medical oncologist, and nurse case manager about specialized comprehensive treatment. Other services include physical therapy, plastic surgery, pathologic and radiologic consultations, and nutritional and psychological counseling.
Appointment line: 202-444-2223
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Developmental Therapeutics Program
This clinic focuses on new treatments for patients with advanced malignancies. Typically, studies are not restricted by tumor type and early phase studies do not require measurable disease.
Contact name: John Marshall, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-2223
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Gastrointestinal Oncology Clinic
Offers protocols for treatment of advanced colorectal, pancreatic, esophageal, gastric and other gastrointestinal malignancies, as well as adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Contact names: John Marshall, MD; Jimmy Hwang, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-2223
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hemapheresis
Therapeutic removal of plasma containing toxic factors or antibodies believed to be important in disease pathogenesis.
Contact name: Craig Kessler, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-3667
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Infusion Service
Administration of outpatient transfusion, chemotherapy and other pharmaceutical agents.
Contact name: Philip Cohen, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-4399
Appointment hours: Monday through Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Palliative Care Program
A nursing and medical program that offers pain management as well as psychological and spiritual support to patients with malignancies and other severe illnesses. Oftentimes, the palliative care team works with the oncologists to assess various treatment options.
Contact name: Andrew Putnam, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-1781
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Pulmonary Oncology Program
This comprehensive approach to the patient who has a known neoplasm of the thorax offers consultation and intervention with chemotherapy or experimental phase I/II therapies as needed. Frequent joint consultations are made with radiation therapy and thoracic surgery in an Interdisciplinary Lung Clinic.
Contact name: Deepa Subramaniam, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-2223
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Urologic Oncology Service
This service provides referral, consultation and treatment for cancer of the testes, bladder, kidney and prostate. Multidisciplinary review of cases by hematology/ oncology and urology. Clinical trials are offered.
Contact name: Nancy Dawson, MD
Appointment line: 202-444-2223
Appointment hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
