Saving and Improving Lives
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The work of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center is truly transformative. Our students are transformed by the cutting-edge education and real-world medical practice they experience at Emory University School of Medicine and by their relationships with the passionate and talented faculty who mentor them.
Our faculty are likewise transformed by the experience of interacting year after year with the brightest and most compassionate young people in the nation. But the ultimate transformation brought about by these two remarkable groups of people is one most of us never see firsthand—the impact of their life-saving and life-affirming work on patients and their families, not only in our own health care facilities, but also in those around the region and in some cases around the world.
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The Woodruff Health Sciences Center encompasses three schools, a primate research center, a cancer institute, and the largest health care system in the state. The medical school is its largest teaching component, with 531 students, 1,192 residents and fellows, and 2.085 faculty. One of every four physicians in Georgia has been trained by faculty at Emory. |
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As our medical students graduate, complete their post-graduate training in the most prestigious training programs in the country, and go on to practice and teach the skills they’ve learned here, they will save and improve lives in the cities where they practice both at home and abroad. Their research will broaden our understanding of disease and pioneer new treatments and cures that will change more lives than they ever touch directly. As the future of our profession, they will have a profound effect on the way we approach health and healing.
Congratulations to the faculty and students of the medical school on another outstanding year of saving and improving lives.
Wright Caughman, MD
Executive VP for Health Affairs
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman, Emory Healthcare
