Dean Thomas Lawley was right when he called this a watershed year for the School of Medicine, with its new curriculum and a new building unmatched anywhere in the country. Even while undertaking the challenge no less of transforming medical education, the school never missed a beat in advancing its other missions. Its unbroken rise as a research power continued, in funding and in results. Emory physicians are helping create a new model for patient-centered care that will help shape the school’s programs, buildings, education, research, and patient outcomes for decades to come. The school’s faculty recruitments this past year (as well as some equally powerful retentions) confirmed the excitement and drawing power of what is happening in the medical school today and the promise of what is to come. We have assembled a critical mass of world-class people who are making worldwide impact.
Indeed, this is a watershed year not just for the medical school but for all of Emory. We have an opportunity few institutions ever get: to become the model of a vital center of learning and care for a new era, to set a new standard for what a major research university can be, to transform health and healing locally, nationally, and around the globe. The opportunity, in my estimation, is no less than to make this century Emory’s century.
I offer my congratulations to Dean Lawley and to the medical faculty as well. I look forward to the school’s leadership in creating the health care and health care providers of tomorrow.
Michael M.E. Johns
Michael M.E. Johns
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Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare
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