  The Fermi Large Area Telescope has detected an extended region of GeV
emission toward the Galactic Center that is currently thought to be powered by
dark matter annihilation or a population of young and/or millisecond pulsars.
In a test of the pulsar hypothesis, we have carried out an initial search of a
20 deg**2 area centered on the peak of the galactic center GeV excess.
Candidate pulsars were identified as a compact, steep spectrum continuum radio
source on interferometric images and followed with targeted single-dish
pulsation searches. We report the discovery of the recycled pulsar PSR
1751-2737 with a spin period of 2.23 ms. PSR 1751-2737 appears to be an
isolated recycled pulsar located within the disk of our Galaxy, and it is not
part of the putative bulge population of pulsars that are thought to be
responsible for the excess GeV emission. However, our initial success in this
small pilot survey suggests that this hybrid method (i.e. wide-field
interferometric imaging followed up with single dish pulsation searches) may be
an efficient alternative strategy for testing whether a putative bulge
population of pulsars is responsible for the GeV excess.
