Clinical Center News
July / August 2024
David Lunter talking to a family member

A Roadmap to Improve Communication in the ICU

This is the third installment of Marcy Mager’s observations about the processes and procedures used in the NIH Clinical Center to provide care to patients who are severely ill. Full Story

CCE Modular Terrace

Center for Cellular Engineering Unveils New Manufacturing Facility

The Center for Cellular Engineering (CCE) will soon unveil its new, roughly $20 million Modular Terrace Facility. Full Story

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Diane Dowling, Dr. Harvey Alter, Dr. James Gilman, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Lawrence Tabak

Clinical Center Honors Its Own Nobel Laureate

The Clinical Center recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the NIH History Center and Stetten Museum exhibit on Dr. Harvey Alter. Full Story

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Stephanie Goff

NIH Director Scrubs In at the Clinical Center

NIH Director, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and NCI, Dr. Stephanie Goff operated on a woman with metastatic melanoma to remove a tumor from her thigh muscle, which is part of a clinical trial's protocol to test the effect of using combo immunotherapy drugs in a patient with metastatic melanoma. Full Story

Elyas Khandwalla

How the NIH Clinical Center Cured Elyas Khandwalla

Participating in a clinical trial, a seventh-grader received a life-saving bone marrow transplant, shedding light on a promising new preoperative conditioning treatment. Full Story

Physical Therapists focus on preventing falls
The Physical Therapy (PT) Section of the NIH Clinical Center’s Rehabilitation Medicine Department wants you to stay on your feet.
Full Story
Physical Therapists help prevent patient falls
New pharmacy opens later this year
Clinical Center CEO, Dr. James Gilman tours the new permanent pharmacy facilities under construction in the hospital
Full Story
Clinical Center leaders tour Pharmacy construction area
These complex patients were being screened out; now they’re being screened in
New Autoimmune Brain Disorders Program highlights patient inclusion and interdisciplinary collaboration
Full Story
Dr. Gena Mooneyham, National Institute of Mental Health Autoimmune Brain Disorders Program
Concert unites Clinical Center patient and staff in music
As the sweet sounds of the ballad "Hallelujah" wafted through the NIH Clinical Center's atrium, there were some damp eyes and all were reminded just how amazing this place is.
Full Story
Caesar Sant performing
Clinical Center receives outstanding nursing quality award
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center was among six medical centers recognized with the NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality for “elevating nursing excellence, and in turn, improving patient outcomes.”
Full Story
Image of NDNQI Award
Music in the Atrium carries on
Even with only strings and percussion instruments allowed due to COVID-19 precautions, the hospital's "Music in the Atrium" program continues to bring uplifting, healing music to the Clinical Center atrium.
Full Story
The NSO String Orchestra performing in the Clinical Center
Music in the atrium concerts continue to bring songs, sounds to patients, staff during the pandemic
Once again, the sounds of live music are soaring through the Clinical Center to benefit patients and staff.
Full Story
U.S. Air Force String Quartet musician
Hospital begins journey to earn Magnet accreditation
Led by the Nursing Department, the Clinical Center has started the journey to achieve accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet® hospital.
Full Story
Journey to Magnet Excellence American Nurses Credentialing Center
Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Tony Fauci, and several others, including frontline healthcare workers, receive COVID-19 vaccination at NIH Clinical Center
On Dec. 22, NIH hosted a COVID-19 Vaccine Kick-Off event in the Clinical Center.
Full Story
Dr. Anthony Fauci receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Nobel Prize win for Clinical Center scientist
It began with an early morning phone call. Instead of a telemarketer or an over-eager candidate jarring him out of bed, the Secretary General of the Nobel Committee in Stockholm, Sweden was on the...
Full Story
Dr. Harvey Alter
Sex and Gender in Clinical Research: Breaking Through Barriers, Advancing Equality in Outcomes
Biological gender differences in men and women matter – but historically, women have not received the appropriate study and resulting treatment that underlies this belief.
Full Story
Dr. Alyson McGregor
Halloween celebrations continue during pandemic for hospitals youngest patients
The NIH Clinical Centers youngest patients celebrated Halloween despite infection control requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Full Story
Members of the NIH Clinical Center Recreational Therapy program dressed in Halloween costumes

CC Newsletter
National Institutes of Health
Building 10, 10 Center Drive
Room 6-2551,
Bethesda, MD 20892-1504
Tel: 301-402-6202
Fax: 301-402-0244

You are now leaving the NIH Clinical Center website.

This external link is provided for your convenience to offer additional information. The NIH Clinical Center is not responsible for the availability, content or accuracy of this external site.

The NIH Clinical Center does not endorse, authorize or guarantee the sponsors, information, products or services described or offered at this external site. You will be subject to the destination site’s privacy policy if you follow this link.

More information about the NIH Clinical Center Privacy and Disclaimer policy is available at https://www.cc.nih.gov/disclaimers.html