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A
time of transition
As of October 1, 2007, I will transition from my current
role as CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) to Chancellor
of the University. We are very fortunate that Dr. Fred Sanfilippo
has agreed to take over the reins of the WHSC beginning this fall.
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Fred
Sanfilippo is an exceptional leader in academic medicine, a renowned
researcher, and a trusted colleague. When I was dean of medicine
at Johns Hopkins, I had the good fortune to recruit him there after
he had 14 successful research and teaching years at Duke. He then
had a stellar tenure at Hopkins for seven years as a distinguished
professor, department chair, and pathologist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
In
2000, Dr. Sanfilippo went on to lead Ohio State’s Medical
Center, where he has done an extraordinary job. He reorganized and
transformed the medical center to meet the modern challenges of
a health care environment; he recruited and retained outstanding
physician-scientists; and he was a strong proponent of health education,
quality, and safety. The facilities development program under his
direction the past seven years has been outstanding and similar
to what we have accomplished here in the WHSC.
With this impressive base of experience
at three other leading universities and with his national leadership
roles in a number of health organizations, including the Association
of Academic Health Centers, Fred Sanfilippo is wellsuited for the
demanding job of running a large academic health center like ours.
He understands deeply the respective contributions of all the health
professions, including medicine, nursing, and public health; the
unique scientific asset represented by a resource like Yerkes; and
the imperative to integrate all of our research, training, and education
programs into a world-class health system that delivers unsurpassed
clinical care.
As some of you may recall, Fred was
one of our keynote speakers in December at our second National Symposium
on Predictive Health. We share with him a compelling vision for
the potential of predictive health. Indeed, he helped launch a similar
program at Ohio State. I know Fred will continue to build predictive
health and Emory’s leadership in transforming health and healing
for our patients.
On a personal note, allow me to thank
each and every one of you for your hard work, commitment, and dedication
over the past 11 years. It has been my privilege to work personally
with many of you and to lead the WHSC, which is full of people who
come to work everyday dedicated to our vital missions in education,
research, and health care, making it one of the premier and most
vibrant health sciences centers anywhere. I consider myself the
most fortunate person in academic health over the past 11 years
to have had the opportunity to lead such an enterprise.
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