Executive health

Internist David Roberts leads Emory’s Executive Health Program, which received a gift from a grateful patient. The gift will help enable the Executive Health Program to identify new areas to research 

Internist David Roberts leads Emory’s Executive Health Program, which received a gift from a grateful patient. The gift will help enable the Executive Health Program to identify new areas to research.

Lyle Finley, founder of the Golden Gallon convenience store chain, recently pledged $200,000 to support research in the medical school. The gift will create two Lyle Finley Discovery Funds, one in executive health and one in otolaryngology.

Emory’s Executive Health Program, under the leadership of internal medicine specialist David Roberts, offers comprehensive, detailed evaluations and customer service tailored to meet the needs of busy executives.

Finley, who helped run his family’s country store in Rutledge, Tenn., grew Golden Gallon convenience stores from a local franchise to a regional Southeast chain. When he sold the company to Bi-Lo/Royal Ahold in 2000, sales at Golden Gallon had reached $300 million.

     

"We see more than 1,000 patients a year at our Executive Health Program, all predominately focused on wellness and prevention."
    
              — David Roberts, director, Emory's Executive Health Program




 


Over the years, as he ran his company, Finley would travel to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., for health care, even taking his executive staff to Florida from Chattanooga for annual checkups. When Emory opened its executive health program, Finley scheduled an appointment and met with Roberts. He liked what he saw.

"Having a program that is focused on the needs of executives is beneficial," Finley says. "They take into consideration the schedules many executives keep by expediting your care, and they provide follow-up that you may not get elsewhere."

"We see more than 1,000 patients a year in our Executive Health Program, all predominately focused on wellness and prevention, says Roberts. This population gives us a wealth of data to help evaluate and test new areas of interest. This discovery fund, especially if we can grow it, will allow us to have the technology and personnel to use this wealth of data to evaluate trends in health and wellness and identify new areas for research."

Roberts referred Finley to otolaryngologist John DelGaudio for treatment of his longtime sinus problems, and Finley wanted to express his gratitude to both doctors with gifts to Emory.

DelGaudio directs the Sinus, Nasal, and Allergy Center, and the Finley Discovery Fund in Otolaryngology will support the center's research and teaching efforts.

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