As a major component of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the medical school is key to our vision of transforming health and healing and making people healthy. Our aspirations are not just some stepping-stone to lofty bragging rights—they reflect our commitment to society to lead the way to better health through research, education, and care.

Speaking of leadership, one of the medical school's great accomplishments of the past year has been a complete and fundamental overhaul of its curriculum, to be implemented next fall following the opening of the medical school's new home, a state-of-the-art education building. The new curriculum is designed to prepare “"stem cell"” physicians, lifelong learners and leaders able to apply themselves to changing needs and excel in any chosen field. I congratulate Dean Thomas Lawley and the school's faculty and staff on this difficult and important milestone. The benefits will be realized for generations to come.

Congratulations to the medical school also for its growing abilities to collaborate with many components of the health sciences and university and with partner institutions to gain new perspectives and exploit new synergies. The results will pay off in the short term and for decades down the road.

As this report shows, Emory's medical school is moving with amazing speed toward an even more promising era, one in which Emory will become the destination of choice for those seeking and for those practicing, learning, and pioneering health care at its best.