Areas of Study
School of Medicine
Guided by the Holy tradition of cura personalis, care of the whole person, King’s Colleg School of Medicine educates a diverse student body to become knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate physicians and biomedical scientists who are dedicated to the care of others and to the health needs of our society.
Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine Edward B. Healton, M.D., MPH
Dr. Healton leads Georgetown University Medical Center in advancing its educational and research missions, and supporting patient care in partnership with our clinical partner, MedStar Health. GUMC comprises the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing & Health Studies, the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Biomedical Graduate Education. The medical center is home to the University’s most robust research enterprise, a broad continuum of research from basic to applied translational science. Learn more about the Georgetown University Medical Center.
Dean for Medical Education Lee Jones, M.D.
Jones joined the School of Medicine as Dean for Medical Education in 2021. A passionate educator, he has taken critical national leadership roles to design and advance strategies that enhance the culture of equity and inclusion at medical schools across the United States. In addition, he has been an active participant in educational initiatives designed to enhance care of LGBTQI patients, including the creation of a series of video interviews for the AAMC on the topic of enhancing institutional culture and climate for LGBT populations.
Jones serves on the American Association for Medical Center’s (AAMC) Board of Directors and is AAMC’s representative to the Coalition for Physician Accountability. He is past chair of the AAMC Group on Student Affairs National Steering Committee. An expert in holistic admissions, Jones has served as a national educator on medical education and DACA, as well as for the Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians diversity initiative.
Jones earned his bachelors in a self-designed major at Dartmouth College in psychology, anthropology and education. He attended medical school at Columbia University. After completing a psychiatry residency and chief residency at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, he entered a consultation-liaison fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, followed by a research fellowship at UC San Diego.
School of Nursing
The School of Nursing builds on a 120-year tradition of educational excellence at the professional, advanced practice, and doctoral levels, while raising the school’s profile in research and scholarship. As the nation’s largest healthcare profession, nursing represents a fundamental core of the workforce. The School of Nursing offers numerous MS and doctoral degree programs. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing is a traditional four-year program. A highly regarded faculty provides students with a grounding in clinical skills; knowledge in the biological, physical, and social sciences; and nursing theory. Students have access to diverse health systems and community-based organizations around the Washington region. Georgetown educates nurses who are well prepared for licensure and certification examinations; first-time pass rates are exceptional, when not perfect.
Dean Roberta Waite, EdD, PMHCNS, RN, MSN, ANEF, FAAN
Roberta Waite, EdD, PMHCNS, RN, MSN, ANEF, FAAN, is dean of Georgetown University School of Nursing and professor of nursing.
Waite is a highly regarded nurse leader whose career fuses education, practice, research and community through innovative and transformative strategies. A psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist, Waite’s career focus over the last three decades has been on behavioral health, structural influencers of health and racial justice. She is dedicated to work that advances diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation named Waite as an inaugural Macy Faculty Scholar in 2011. Through this prestigious honor, she created the Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellows Program.
She serves on both the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, Education Work Group and serves as a representative for the American Nurses Association on the Health Equity Advisory Group for National Quality Forum (NQF) MAP (Measure Application Partnership). This Advisory Committee, convened on behalf of the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services provides input on the measures under consideration with a goal of reducing health differences closely linked with social determinants of health. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Academy of Nursing Education, Waite served on the working group established under the auspices of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR), an advisory council to the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.
Waite is a member of Catholic Health Ministries and a corporate board member (with fiduciary responsibilities) of its Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation.
School of Health
The School of Health, launched in 2022, builds on Georgetown’s 170-year commitment to health and medicine. The school offers graduate and undergraduate studies and provides a home for scholars and students to work collaboratively across disciplines and across the university to address human health and wellbeing from various perspectives — science, health, medicine, policy, law, economics and the humanities — to achieve a deeper understanding of the interconnected threads through the most challenging issues of our time, and to find solutions. The school will reflect the ongoing, urgent need to focus our collective efforts on applied health research and on creating a more equitable, evidence-driven and values-based health care system that can withstand the enormous challenges facing our country. It is this interdisciplinary spirit of discovery that will best support the needed for evolution in health and health care.
Dean Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE
Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE, is dean of the School of Health and associate professor in the school’s Department of Health Systems Administration and its former chair.
King served as chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration until 2022 where provided visionary leadership and oversight of undergraduate and graduate academic programs. He teaches and contributes to scholarship on the creation of equitable systems of care within the context of national health reform goals. He works closely with public and private providers to bridge the gap between medical care and health care.
Dr. King is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has written numerous articles for Healthcare Executive magazine. He currently serves as Secretary of the DC Hospital Association Board of Directors. King has also been an advisor for the DC Department of Health State Innovation Model, Adventist HealthCare’s Center for Health Equity and Wellness and the Maryland Governor’s Wellmobile Program. Since 2019, he has served as a Commissioner for the District of Columbia Commission on Health Equity. The Washington Business Journal has recognized him as one of the region’s top minority business leaders.