From the executive vice president
Bigger dreams, together
It is truly appropriate that our partnerships within and beyond Emory are highlighted throughout this annual report because they illustrate our vision in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center: transforming health and healing ... together. That last word, "together," is crucial. Without it, the "transforming" part just is not possible.
The medical school is helping us all achieve our vision. By working together with the other components of the health sciences center—the schools of nursing and public health, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Emory Healthcare—the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
As you can read in the preceding pages, for example, medical faculty have worked with colleagues in public health to help lead the Georgia arm of the National Children's Study. They worked with scientists at Yerkes in developing the first nonhuman primate model of Huntington's disease. They joined with nursing colleagues to teach students from both schools to work as a team in simulated cases to prepare for real patients. And they are working throughout Emory Healthcare to translate new innovations like stereoscopic mammography more quickly to patient benefit and to enhance quality of care by involving patients and their families in the process.
I am proud of what we have accomplished together in the past year because it helps predict how well we will achieve our goals, which in turn will benefit those we serve: our students, patients, and community.
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
Executive VP for Health Affairs
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
