Clinical Center News
July / August 2024
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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

On the frontline of research for COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, NIH has been on the frontline and is conducting and supporting research to prevent, treat and better understand the virus.
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Masked researcher
Should unused clinical samples be repurposed for further research?
Many clinical research studies struggle to find enough participants. Meanwhile, during their regular operations, clinicians, hospitals and clinics frequently see many patients.
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April Ethics Grand Rounds on videocast
Celebrating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at NIH
In May, NIH celebrated Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.
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Leighton Chan, Chief of Rehab Medicine
From Texas to Antarctica
The Department of Transfusion Medicine and Center for Cellular Engineering has a new chief, but she's no stranger to the NIH Clinical Center.
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Dr. Barbara Bryant
Emerging from the pandemic: leadership charts a way forward
With vaccines for coronavirus becoming widely available, we can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
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NIH Clinical Center South Lobby Screening
Clinical Center north lobby receives new door, decorative panels display staff
Millions of people have passed through the doors of the NIH Clinical Center's North Entrance.
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Temporary panel hiding construction work featured Dr. Anthony Fauci
Resource for surgical services available online for NIH staff
The NIH surgery webpages now available for staff on the Clinical Center's intranet are a "one-stop shop" with easy access to key material about surgical services at the hospital.
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NIH Clinical Center staff member
Longest serving volunteer, dog therapy bring hope to patients
Volunteers play a critical role at the NIH Clinical Center with approximately 185 volunteers performing over 9,800 hours of service in 2019 – the equivalent to almost five full time staff.
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Janet Logan
Dr. Harvey Klein, chief of Department of Transfusion Medicine, retires
Dr. Harvey G. Klein, known throughout the world as an expert on blood transfusions, retired at the end of September after a 46-year distinguished career at NIH.
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Dr. Harvey Klein
David Henderson retires from the Clinical Center after 40 years
HIV/AIDS. Antibiotic resistant infections. Ebola virus. Most of us would do everything in our power to avoid these infections, but Dr. David Henderson spent his life planning on how to analyze...
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David Henderson
Code "BERT" available throughout Clinical Center beginning Feb. 10
To enhance a culture of safety for Clinical Center patients and staff, the new code "BERT" (short for Behavioral Emergency Response Team) will become available to all patient care staff beginning...
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Step 1: Call Page Operator at 301-496-1211; Step 2: Say: We have a behavioral emergency. Please call a Code BERT; Step 3: Provide: Building 10 (Magnuson or CRC) Patient Care Unit/CC Location
CC holds "Torch Run" event to kick-off annual CFC campaign
The Clinical Center Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) kicked off with a "Torch Run" Oct. 29 in the atrium.
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Tricia Coffey, chief of the Health Information Management department participated as torchbearers

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