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

Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey opens Sept. 21 – Employees will receive survey link via email
The annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), a key tool to measure Federal Government employees' perceptions about their work experiences, organizations, and leaders, will be available Sept...
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How are we doing with COVID-19? FEVS 2020. Give Feedback about COVID-19 Changes. 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. NIH
NIH offers flu shots this Fall
Foil the Flu, the annual seasonal influenza immunization program for NIH employees and contractors, will begin Sept. 28.
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Foil the Flu! Cartoon graphic of person poking a flu-germ
Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion Symposium and Red Cell Genotyping Symposium go virtual in 2020
The 39th Annual Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion Symposium was held virtually September 10.
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Clinical trials on COVID-19, brown fat, dopamine and weight recruiting
A research study is now open for health care personnel who have had close contact with patients and work at the NIH Clinical Center to determine if they have been infected in the past with...
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weight, scale and an exercise ball
Dr. Charles Natanson awarded the 2020 Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award
The 2020 NIH Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award (DCTA) was awarded in a virtual presentation on June 10, 2020 to Dr. Charles Natanson, senior investigator and chief of the Anesthesia Section...
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DCTA
What has been discovered since Discovery's First in Human TV series?
In honor of the third anniversary of Discovery's First in Human documentary series (August 2020), CC News contacted the research teams who were featured on the program to ask...
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A mural in the NIH Clinical Center commemorating First in Human, and that the medicine of tomorrow starts today
Hearts Dance at the Clinical Center Atrium: NHLBI event promotes heart-healthy choices
Everyone's blood was pumping in the Clinical Center atrium Feb.1 as people danced for the #OurHearts Dance Together event coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
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People dancing in the atrium
Medical musician brings soothing sounds to patients
For volunteer Michael Bard, a guitar is his instrument of healing. Bard uses the power of his music to address the psychological, social and spiritual healing of individuals.
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Michael Bard, a volunteer medical musician
Saul Rosen, former Acting Director of CC, passes at 90
In February, former Acting Director of the Clinical Center Dr. Saul Rosen died at the age of 90.
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Dr. Saul Rosen
Health Information Management (Medical Records) opens satellite desk to support patients' records requests
Nancy Holmfeld, a registered health information administrator, staffs the new satellite desk for the Health Information Management Department on the NIH Clinical Center P1 level.
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Nancy Holmfeld
Wristbands let patients check-in clinics, day hospitals
The Clinical Center has added a new component to the electronic medical record system to allow patients to check into an outpatient clinic or day hospital appointment by simply scanning their...
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a patient's wristband getting scanned upon checking in or out
Choose to make a difference: Take the NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey today
The NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey launched Jan. 28 and is open for open to NIH employees, contractors, fellows, and special volunteers to take through March 25.
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Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey. Take the Survey now. Diversity.nih.gov

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