138 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine MEDICINE, HEALTHCARE AND WELLNESS with her in Cameroon and witness the patient benefits of the well-funded HIV/AIDS treatment program, for which she wrote the initial HIV/ AIDS treatment protocol, as well as to make their own individual contributions to global health. Though forced to temporarily discontinue her in-person GGHEC program in 2014 due to the Cameroon Civil War, Dr. Cole continues her global health outreach work at Georgetown and her virtual research in Cameroon. She has spoken and been published extensively on her experiences in global health and as a woman in medicine. In accounting for her success, she credits her determination and dedication to service. As a testament to her success, Dr. Cole has been the recipient of numerous Georgetown faculty awards and the 2012 Vicennial Medal. She also earned an honorary title bestowed by regional leaders in Kumbo, Cameroon, in recognition of her pivotal role in providing healthcare to the Cameroon region. Dr. Marilee C.S. Cole is a physician and professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, where she practiced primary care internal medicine for three decades as a clinician-educator and co-founded the Georgetown Women in Medicine organization. Dr. Cole is best known for her global health and tropical medicine work. Dr. Cole did not initially consider a career in medicine, majoring in chemistry and biology before applying to medical school at her brother’s suggestion. She earned an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1972 after being involved in international outreach work as a college student in Chad. While in Chad, she had an emergency appendectomy, experiencing firsthand some of the deficits in its local healthcare system, an experience that strongly influenced her career dedication to medical outreach. Three decades later, Dr. Cole returned to Africa, this time to Cameroon, Chad’s southern neighbor, to work with a local healthcare organization serving one-third of Cameroon’s population. She shared this global health passion with her Georgetown internal medicine residents by creating the popular Georgetown Global Health Elective in Cameroon (GGHEC) in 2004, allowing her residents to work yearly MARILEE C.S. COLE, MD, DTMH PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE Georgetown University Medical Center
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