We've successfully completed system-wide strategic plans for our research and clinical missions and are developing another for education. Identified a core of excellent, highly productive researchers, but lack a critical mass of investigators in larger program projects or institutional grants. Approved plans to build new labora-tory research space, a nursing school building, and a new cancer center. Opportunity appears ripe as Congress considers substantial NIH increases and tobacco company settlements promise a windfall for research.
Faculty can provide leadership nationally and at home in recommending how to allocate new funds.
Continued consolidation of Emory and Crawford Long hospitals. Restructuring The Emory Clinic into an integrated part of Emory healthcare. Developing a convenient, highly differentiated metro Atlanta delivery network for primary, secondary, and tertiary care, built around a geographically dispersed, multispecialty group practice. Worked toward a merger with Wesley Woods to strengthen our elderly and chronic care capabilities. In Praise of Staying Focused Challenged faculty to develop new models of cross-disciplinary health professions education, as the medical school begins a comprehensive review of its educational programs, the nursing school nears approval for a new doctoral program, and the School of Public Health revises its curriculum.