The Robert W. Woodruff
Health Sciences Center
At A Glance - 2007

A Message from the CEO

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University has never been in a stronger position to serve humanity by making people healthy. This is thanks to our faculty, who are combining their expertise in new ways to speed innovations to improve health—and teaching the next generation to do the same. It is thanks to our dedicated and skilled clinicians, who serve as role models for providing both the best and most compassionate care. It is also thanks to our trustees, donors, and other friends, who understand our goals and what it takes to keep our momentum strong. Our progress is in no small measure based on leveraging our strengths in partnerships with colleagues throughout the University and beyond:

• We launched the Emory Global Health Institute, established with an initial budget of $110 million, to address the most pressing health challenges around the world, particularly in poorer nations.
• We opened a new neuro ICU in which evidence-based design is shaping evidence-based medicine, with integrated teams of professionals working together to provide patient- and family-centered care. This is the future model for all our clinics and hospitals and illustrates our goal as part of Vision 2012 to transform health and healing for the 21st century.
• Our vaccine and transplant centers, along with Yerkes National Primate Research Center, are developing new vaccine strategies to protect immunosuppressed patients from infectious disease.
• Our Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Initiative has 18 research projects in which collaborators are working to develop new ways of predicting and preventing disease.
• Our medical school is implementing a new curriculum in a new state-of-the-art education building to prepare students for a future of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Our school of public health enrolled its first students in two new interdisciplinary PhD programs last fall, in health policy and in behavioral sciences and health education.
• Our nursing school recently held its third annual global government health partners leadership forum, convening experts from 113 countries to discuss global nursing shortages.
• Our clinicians had a record 4.4 million patient visits last year, providing more than $70 million in charity care in Emory facilities, in addition to their work for indigent patients in affiliated hospitals.

As this glance at our center will show you, we are collaborating on many fronts to make our center an international destination of choice for those practicing, learning, pioneering, and seeking health care at its best.

Michael M.E. Johns, MD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Overview

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) encompasses components of Emory University responsible for education of health professionals, research affecting health and illness, patient care, and policies for prevention and treatment of disease. The WHSC's namesake, the legendary leader of The Coca-Cola Company, was a man whose vision and generosity left a lasting imprint on Emory and on Atlanta.

In addition to the WHSC components listed in the following pages, Emory University includes Emory College, Oxford College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, and professional schools of business, law, and theology. The student body, including the WHSC, totals 12,338. Faculty total 3,278 and employees, 21,129 (including faculty). At $4.9 billion (as of fiscal year 2006), Emory's endowment ranks 13th among universities in the country.

Many of the WHSC facilities are located on or near Emory's main campus, 631 acres along the Clifton Corridor in a suburban area 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Emory's 42-acre Briarcliff Campus, located 1 mile west of the main campus, is the site of EmTech Bio, a business incubator for biotechnology developed with Georgia Institute of Technology.

Faculty and staff perform the WHSC's core missions —— teaching, research, and patient care —— at various hospitals owned by or affiliated with Emory and at a number of Emory Healthcare sites and affiliates throughout the city, state, and region. Physicians in Emory Healthcare and affiliate hospitals are responsible for 4.4 million patient visits a year.

Comprehensive Figures

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center's annual budget is $2.1 billion, and its patient care component, Emory Healthcare, provided $70.7 million in charity care in 2006. Research funding for 2005-2006 was $331 million. Faculty: 2,259, plus 1,571 adjunct or volunteer faculty and collaborative scientists. Students and medical residents in training: 3,712, including 417 in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Employees: 13,909, including Emory Healthcare. Total employees, including faculty: 16,168. A partnership with Hospital Corporation of America and a joint venture with Emory-Adventist Hospital bring the WHSC's total hospital beds to 1,582, total annual hospital admissions to 53,572, and total outpatient visits to 2.4 million.

WHSC Components

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center includes Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Emory Healthcare, the WHSC's system of clinical operations.

Emory University School of Medicine (founded 1854)
Thomas J. Lawley, MD, Dean

Emory University School of Medicine is ranked among the nation's finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care. The school had 49 applications in 2006 for each of its first-year positions, and its students perform extremely well compared with their peers at other schools. In 2006, for example, the pass rate for first-time takers of part 1 of the National Board Exam was 98%. Also in 2006, graduates went on to residencies in Georgia and 26 other states, with almost half choosing primary care specialties.

In addition to 455 medical students, the school trains more than 1,000 residents and fellows in 78 accredited programs. The school has 61 MD/PhD students in one of the 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the NIH. Some of these MD/PhD students are in a joint program with Georgia Institute of Technology, with which the medical school shares a biomedical engineering department ranked third in the country in 2006 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school has 16 MD/MPH students. More than 230 medical school faculty also train predoctoral bioscience researchers in one or more of the eight programs of the university's Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Faculty in five allied health programs train 390 students. These include a physician assistant program ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and a physical therapy doctoral program ranked eighth.

The medical school's faculty received $292.2 million in sponsored research in 2006, including funding received by medical faculty at Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Ranked 19th nationally in NIH dollars received, the school is one of the fastest-growing recipients of NIH awards in the country. The school has 1,981 full- and part-time faculty and 998 volunteer faculty. Physician faculty in Emory's own hospitals, affiliated teaching hospitals, and outpatient venues are responsible for more than 3.6 million patient visits annually.

The school has 15,183 alumni (5,350 medical school and 9,833 residency alumni), and one of every five physicians in Georgia was trained at Emory. In addition to the school's regular education programs, 7,490 physicians and other health care professionals came to Emory last year to participate in continuing medical education.

In addition to Georgia Tech and other research institutions throughout the state and nation, the medical school maintains strong ties with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, particularly in collaborations against emerging and established infectious diseases.

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905)
Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN, Dean

The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing produces nursing leaders who are transforming health care through science, education, practice, and policy worldwide. It has 213 baccalaureate, 177 master's, and 12 doctoral students. Students who complete their undergraduate degree go on to become national and international leaders in patient care, public health, government, and education. The school offers a dual-degree program with Agnes Scott College, providing undergraduates with a strong background in liberal arts and nursing. The school's master's program offers opportunities to specialize in advanced nursing practice in a number of clinical settings and roles. Graduates are qualified to seek certification as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and/or clinical nurse specialists. A dual-degree option is available with the Rollins School of Public Health, allowing students to graduate with master's degrees in both nursing and public health. In this program, students can major in international nursing, a rare offering both in the United States and around the world. The nursing school's doctoral program focuses on clinical research, with emphasis on health policy, health outcomes, and ethics.

In 2006, the school received $5.2 million in research funding. Nationally, the school ranks in the top 10 among private schools in research funding from the NIH. It currently is ranked 26th overall by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranked the school's nurse midwifery graduate program seventh in the nation. Major programs include the Center for Research on Symptoms, Symptom Interactions, and Health Outcomes; the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing; and the Fuld Fellowship, which targets second-career students with a special interest in serving vulnerable populations. The nursing school has 65 faculty, and students can learn from volunteer faculty at more than 300 clinical sites. The school has approximately 10,000 graduates.

Rollins School of Public Health (1990)
James W. Curran, MD, MPH, Dean

The Rollins School of Public Health has 784 students pursuing master's degrees and 126 PhD students in behavioral sciences and health education, biostatistics, epidemiology, health policy and management, and nutrition. The school has approximately 4,000 alumni.

A leader in interdisciplinary studies, the school offers dual-degree programs with the schools of medicine, nursing, business, and law. Master's degrees also are available with a concentration in clinical research and in Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European studies. The Career MPH is an Internet-based program for mid-career public health professionals who wish to pursue a degree while employed.

In 2006, the school recorded $37.7 million in research funding. These funds support research efforts in cancer epidemiology, nutrition, environmental and occupational health, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, addictive behaviors, youth violence, antibiotic resistance, health care costs and allocation of health resources, and micronutrient malnutrition.

Many of the 180 faculty and more than 250 adjunct faculty in six academic departments are linked by appointments, shared programs, or research grants with the CDC, Carter Center, American Cancer Society, CARE, Arthritis Foundation, and state and local public health agencies. Through these partnerships and in its role as a center for international health research and training, the school helps make Atlanta the public health capital of the world.

Yerkes National Primate Research Center (1930)
Stuart M. Zola, PhD, Director

One of eight national primate research centers funded by the NIH, Yerkes National Primate Research Center is dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of primate biology, behavior, veterinary care, and conservation, and to improving human health and well-being. Supported by $45.6 million in research funding, Yerkes' research program includes approximately 119 research projects. Studies involve 3,400 nonhuman primates (seven species) and 7,000 rodents. The center has two facilities—the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, continued main center on the Emory campus and a 117-acre satellite facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

In addition to 344 staff members, Yerkes is home to 32 faculty scientists, 95 affiliate and 38 collaborative faculty, and 108 research associates from Emory and other institutions. More than 125 graduate and undergraduate students participate in research and educational programs at Yerkes.

Yerkes is making landmark discoveries in microbiology and immunology, neuroscience, psychobiology, and sensory-motor systems. Yerkes researchers are seeking ways to develop vaccines for AIDS and malaria, pioneer organ transplant procedures and provide safer drugs to transplant recipients, treat cocaine addiction, interpret brain activity through imaging, increase understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, unlock the secrets of memory, determine behavioral effects of hormone replacement therapy, advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior, and address vision disorders. The center is the only U.S. primate facility to have comprehensive imaging on site, which is critical to studying neurologic development and disease progression and to evaluating new therapies.

Collaboration is key to Yerkes research. Infectious disease research at Yerkes and at the Emory Vaccine Center fosters communication among some of the nation's leading immunologists and virologists. At the Living Links Center, scientists collaborate to study the animal roots of human social behaviors, such as cooperation, affiliation, and reconciliation. Yerkes researchers who also are members of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) collaborate with scientists from the CBN's consortium of eight Atlanta-based institutions in research and education.

Because of their similarity to humans in genetic makeup, behavior, and organ-system function, nonhuman primates provide irreplaceable opportunities to better understand, prevent, and treat human disease.

Emory Healthcare (1997)
Michael M.E. Johns, MD, Chairman of the Board
John T. Fox, President and CEO

Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health care system in Georgia, includes Emory University Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Wesley Woods Center, The Emory Clinic, Emory Children's Center, the jointly owned Emory-Adventist Hospital, and EHCA, a limited liability company created in collaboration with Hospital Corporation of America. Emory Healthcare has $1.4 billion in net patient service revenue and provides $70.7 million in charity care annually. It has 9,699 employees and 1,184 hospital beds (1,582 beds counting joint ventures).

In addition to Emory's own primary and multispecialty health care centers located throughout metro Atlanta (see pages 8-9), the Emory Healthcare Affiliate Network comprises hospitals and physicians throughout Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The affiliate network is designed to maximize Emory's resources as an academic medical center, enhance the provision of health care services, and support a community-based health care system.

Emory Healthcare also is an owner of 1st Medical Network, one of the largest PPO networks of physicians and hospitals in Georgia, serving more than 700,000 lives. It is designed to serve as a delivery system for HMOs, PPOs, insurers, and others, with a managed care network of hospitals and physicians in the state.

In conjunction with Air Methods Corporation, Emory provides medical oversight for four Emory Flight helicopters from flight centers in metro Atlanta, Griffin, Jefferson, and Cartersville that cover Georgia and surrounding states. The Emory Flight helicopters are on 24-hour standby to lift critically ill patients to the closest appropriate hospital.

Emory Healthcare Components

The Emory Clinic (1953)
Wright Caughman, MD, Director
Don Brunn, COO

The primary port of access to adult patient care in Emory Healthcare and the largest, most comprehensive group practice in Georgia, The Emory Clinic has 900 Emory faculty physicians. Employees: 2,239. Patient visits in 2006: 1,981,013. Clinic facilities on campus include its main multispecialty headquarters; the 1525 Building, which houses primary care as well as Emory's programs in preventive medicine and wellness; and the Winship Cancer Institute. Clinic physicians also practice in a number of health care centers throughout the metro Atlanta area: Decatur, Dunwoody, Emory Crawford Long, Emory Medical Affiliates at Sugarloaf, Emory Medical Genetics, Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center, Perimeter, Smyrna, South DeKalb, and Wesley Woods.

Emory Children's Center (1997)
Barbara J. Stoll, MD, CEO

The largest pediatric multispecialty group practice in Georgia, the Emory Children's Center (ECC) comprises 105 Emory physician faculty involved in pediatric clinical services, teaching, research, and child advocacy. ECC provides specialty pediatric care at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, and other area hospitals as well as specialty and general care at Children's Healthcare at Hughes Spalding. ECC provides extensive outpatient care to subspecialty patients at pediatric clinics on Emory's campus and on Johnson Ferry Road. Patient visits in 2006: 94,416. Staff employees: 116. As of Sept. 1, 2006, ECC entered into a joint venture with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to create a joint faculty physician practice plan.

Emory Hospitals

Emory University Hospital (1905)
Robert J. Bachman, COO

A 573-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University Hospital is staffed exclusively by 954 Emory University School of Medicine faculty. It includes a 20-bed psychiatric facility, a 56-bed rehabilitation center, and a nine-bed clinical research center supported by the NIH. Patients in 2006: 23,183 admissions and 86,387 outpatient visits. Employees: 3,443. The hospital is long known for cardiology, cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology, and neurology/neurosurgery and is one of the region's most comprehensive multiple organ and tissue transplant centers. It was named in eight of 17 specialties ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the 2006 publication of America's Best Hospitals, and its cardiology and psychiatry programs both ranked 15th. For the ninth year in a row, members of the Atlanta community named Emory University Hospital as the Consumer's Choice Award winner.

Emory Crawford Long Hospital (1908)
Albert K. Blackwelder, COO

A 511-bed community-based, tertiary care center in midtown Atlanta, Emory Crawford Long is staffed by 600 Emory medical faculty and 800 community physicians. Medical services include 56 intensive care beds, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, and four hyperbaric oxygen units. Patients in 2006: 23,205 admissions and 143,961 outpatient visits. Employees: 2,596. Emory Crawford Long Hospital's case-mix index (a measure of the complexity of illnesses treated) is higher than that of most community hospitals. The hospital is well known for services in cardiology, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, and emergency medicine. Women's services include prenatal and postnatal education, bone density testing, mammography, and obstetrics, with a specialization in high-risk pregnancy.

Wesley Woods Center (1954)
Albert K. Blackwelder, Acting COO

This geriatric center includes Wesley Woods Hospital (1987), a 100-bed geriatric specialty facility. Founded by the United Methodist Church and Emory University, Wesley Woods Center serves more than 30,000 older adults and chronically ill individuals each year. In addition to the hospital and a 25-bed inpatient hospice service, Wesley Woods has an outpatient primary care clinic, a 250-bed skilled nursing care facility (Budd Terrace), and a 201-unit residential retirement facility (Wesley Towers), with one floor of 18 units dedicated to personal care. Patients in 2006: 2,279 admissions and 34,066 outpatient visits. Employees: 662 (hospital) and 266 (nursing care facility). Wesley Woods is well known for its inpatient, outpatient, and day hospitalization programs in depression, sleep disorders, rehabilitation, and Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease. The center also provides personal care management and medical assessment services for older patients and their families.

Emory-Adventist Hospital (1974)
Dennis Kiley, President

As part of its commitment to community care, Emory jointly owns Emory-Adventist Hospital with Adventist Health System. Located in Smyrna in rapidly growing Cobb County, this hospital has 88 acute care beds and is staffed by more than 175 physicians, including those from The Emory Clinic, who provide both primary care and specialized services. Patients in 2006: 2,071 admissions and 57,054 outpatient visits. Employees: 450.

EHCA, LLC (1999)
Lawrence H. Kloess III, FACHE, Chairman of the Board
Thomas Gilbert, President and CEO

EHCA is a limited liability company overseen by a board jointly governed by Emory Healthcare and Hospital Corporation of America. Through this LLC, Emory is responsible for clinical performance improvement and quality assurance in two local hospitals. HCA is responsible for management of day-to-day operations of the facilities. EHCA broadens the community's access to care under the Emory umbrella to 1,582 patient beds. Statistics for EHCA hospitals include the following: EHCA, continued Patient beds: 310. Patients in 2006: 3,014 admissions and 19,572 outpatient visits. Employees: 1,750. EHCA hospitals include Emory Eastside Medical Center (200 beds) and the new Emory Johns Creek Hospital (110 beds).

Affiliates for Patient Care, Teaching, and Research

• Grady Memorial Hospital, 953 beds. Staffed primarily by Emory physicians and residents, in collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine.
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Children's) at Egleston, 239 beds (Emory campus) and Children's at Hughes Spalding, 82 beds (Grady campus). Both staffed primarily by Emory pediatricians, including specialists and subspecialists.
• Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), 173 hospital beds and 100 nursing home beds. Staffed primarily by Emory physicians.

Woodruff Leadership Academy

The Woodruff Leadership Academy (WLA) was established to develop leadership potential in professionals and managers in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center to create, articulate, and achieve organizational vision. The WLA graduated its first class in 2003 and has 95 alumni.

Vision 2012: Transforming Health and Healing

A vision for the future: By 2012, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center will be recognized as one of the top 10 academic health sciences centers and will have created a new model of health and healing for the 21st century. It will be a destination of choice for those seeking, practicing, learning, and pioneering health care at its best.

Investments to achieve this vision include patient-focused, interdisciplinary centers, including the Emory Transplant Center, Emory Heart and Vascular Center, Emory Neurosciences Center, Emory Center for Respiratory Health, and Winship Cancer Institute. Other areas of investment include predictive and global health, quality and safety in patient care, and inpatient/outpatient facilities on Emory's campus and at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in midtown Atlanta.

Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Impact on Georgia

As a dynamic destination for education, a robust research institution, and the largest, most comprehensive health care provider in the state, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) impacts Georgia in a variety of significant ways.

• It helps make Emory University the largest employer in DeKalb County and the largest private employer in the 10-county metro Atlanta area.
• With $2.1 billion in operating expenses, the WHSC's annual economic impact on metro Atlanta is estimated at $4.6 billion.
• Two major facilities opening in 2007 include a 172,000-square-foot medical school building and a 110-bed joint-venture hospital off campus (Emory Johns Creek Hospital). Construction planned for the coming decade calls for new research buildings, a new public health building, a Yerkes Field Station facility, and new clinic and hospital space, including major expansion of facilities on the campus at Emory Crawford Long Hospital.
• Emory is a member of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), a partnership of business, research universities, and state government that fosters economic development in the state. Through the GRA, the state invests in research in the WHSC in molecular screening for new drugs, nanotechnology, vaccines, genomics, biomedical and tissue engineering, cancer, imaging, and neuroscience.
• The WHSC attracted $331 million in sponsored research funds last year. Major recent grants include $10 million from the NIH to develop new vaccine strategies to protect transplant recipients and other immunosuppressed patients from infectious disease; $11.5 million from the NIH to Emory and Georgia Tech to use nanotechnology to detect cardiovascular plaque formation; and more than $9 million from the NIH and GRA to Emory, Georgia Tech, and Medical College of Georgia to partner on a nanomedicine development center that will focus on DNA repair.
• The WHSC is a major player in technology transfer, with eight licensed therapeutic products currently in the marketplace in addition to 23 in various stages of development or approval. Emory has launched 37 WHSC Impact on Georgia, continued start-up companies over the past decade, some with help from EmTech Bio, a biotech incubator developed with Georgia Tech.
• The Winship Cancer Institute is a key participant in the Georgia Cancer Coalition, a statewide program working to make the latest advances in cancer care available to all Georgians and investing in cancer research at Emory. Winship leads the Georgia Center for Health Equality, a coalition of hospitals and universities dedicated to training minorities in health-related areas and to counteracting disparities in care.
• The WHSC is the lead partner in the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats (SECEBT), a regional consortium of academic health centers, state health departments, and government agencies addressing natural and human-caused biologic threats, such as West Nile virus and pandemic flu.
• The Emory Vaccine Center is one of the largest academic vaccine centers in the world, with scientists working to develop vaccines for AIDS, malaria, hepatitis C, avian flu, and other infectious diseases. Emory's Hope Clinic, which conducts clinical trials for promising vaccines, is part of the premier network in the country for HIV vaccine prevention trials.
• Emory provides medical direction of Grady Health System's Ponce Center, one of the largest, most comprehensive AIDS treatment centers in the country, and was recently designated a primary site in the nation's premier NIH-funded clinical trials network.
• WHSC's physicians provide $70.7 million annually in charity care through Emory Healthcare and $24.7 million in uncompensated care at Grady Memorial Hospital. Through the Emory Children's Center and Children's Healthcare at Hughes Spalding, Emory also is the preeminent provider of specialty care to indigent children in Georgia. Nursing faculty and students support major volunteer efforts for homeless Atlantans, migrant workers, and people with AIDS. Public health faculty and students influence health policy affecting the community's most economically vulnerable, and they partner with the State Division of Public Health to train workers in dealing with infectious diseases and to help prevent cancer, HIV infection, and adolescent pregnancy.

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Officers

M. Douglas Ivester
Chairman, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board

James W. Wagner
President, Emory University

Michael M.E. Johns
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

Charles T. Andrews
Senior Associate Vice President for Space Planning and Construction

Shari M. Capers
Associate Vice President
Health Sciences Strategic Planning

John T. Fox
President and CEO, Emory Healthcare

Philippe G. Hills
Vice President, Development
Woodruff Health Sciences Center

Gregory H. Jones
Associate Vice President for Health Affairs

Jane E. Jordan
Deputy General Counsel/Chief Health Counsel
Emory University

Ronnie L. Jowers
Vice President for Health Affairs
CFO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center

Jeffrey P. Koplan
Vice President for Academic Health Affairs

Jeffrey L. Molter
Associate Vice President, Health Sciences Communications

Gary L. Teal
Senior Associate Vice President for Administration
Chief of Staff to the CEO

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Core Purpose

In all that we do in research, teaching, patient care, and service to the community, our common purpose is to serve humanity by improving human health. In other words — Making People Healthy.