Earlier this week, the Washington Business Journal broke the news that Dr. Richard Goldberg will become the permanent president of Georgetown University Hospital.

Goldberg has spent the entirety of his medical career at the Hilltop; after graduating from the School of Medicine, he took on a residency in the hospital’s psychiatry department. Later, he became a member of the hospital’s faculty and served as vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer.

“Service to others is a hallmark of Georgetown University Hospital’s Jesuit heritage,” Goldberg wrote on GU Hospital’s website. “We are committed to treating patients, families and visitors with respect.”

Goldberg had been the interim president of GU Hospital since 2009, when former president Dr. M. Joy Drass was promoted within MedStar, the company that owns GU Hospital. Drass now serves as the executive vice president for operations of MedStar Health’s Washington region.

Coming on the heels of a multi-million dollar grant, Georgetown University Medical Center and Howard University joined forces to form the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (GHUCCTS).

The Center, which will collaborate with MedStar Health, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the D.C. Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, received a $38.2 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources (a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health) to establish itself.  The grant begins this month and will last for five years.

Dr. Joseph Verbalis, Chief of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Division at the Medical Center, and Dr. Thomas Mellman, Howard University Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, will jointly oversee the Center’s 109 employees.

“We will creatively combine considerable institutional strengths and talents in ways to enable the application of a larger breadth of resources for clinical and translational research than are available at each of our individual institutions,” Verbalis said, noting that with the Center’s creation will make it easier to offer a wider variety of courses and training opportunities for students at the medical schools.

Georgetown University Hospital has a bit of a mold problem on its hands.

A steam leak discovered in late May “create[d] the potential for mold developing,” according to the Hospital’s Media Relations Director Marianne Worley.

After fixing the leak, MedStar Health, which owns the Hospital, hired outside consultants to assess the situation inside Kober Cogan. Due to the mold problem, the consultants recommended that MedStar turn off the air conditioning system and close the building.

While there was no evidence of “significant health risks” in Kober Cogan, University spokesperson Julie Green Bataille wrote that the building was vacated “out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of [the] employees.”

However, few occupied the building at the time of the leak, so it’s doubtful that the closure will impact Hospital employees or patients.

“The Kober Cogan building is a building we’ve been closing for months now,” Worley said. “We had planned to use the building for storage, but now we have to sit and wait to see what the experts say.”

Kober Cogan, which is located between the Leavey Center and the Hospital parking lot, is now closed to all but authorized personnel. When Vox ambled over to the building on Wednesday evening, we found signs plastered on the doors that prohibited entry.

Who would’ve figured that when mold outbreak happened on campus, it would happen anywhere but Darnall.