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	Emory's medical school is part of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and is thus integral to the center’s vision to create a new era of health and healing for the 21st century. This vision calls for bold new ways of teaching and learning and for integrating patient care and research to help accelerate progress in both.      The medical school's new building and new curriculum make for a good start in implementing this vision. And so does a new center being built at the Emory Crawford Long Hospital campus in midtown Atlanta to house an innovative Center for Health Discovery and Well-Being.      Opening early in 2007, this new center is part of the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Initiative. Its goal is to build a new model of health care that can predict disease and intervene before it develops. The center will take advantage of advances in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics to help define what predictive health care looks like in actual practice. Investigators will follow several hundred healthy people, collecting physical, medical, and lifestyle histories and performing tests targeting known predictors of health and illness. Personalized health programs will be prescribed to address individual risks.      Implementing this and other planned initiatives will require new academic, research, and clinical space. Construction planned for the coming decade calls for, among other things, a new research building and new clinic and hospital space, including major expansion of facilities on the campus at Emory Crawford Long.
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