• Emory School of Medicine opened a new, state-of-the-art education building that enabled inauguration of a completely revamped medical curriculum.
• We recently expanded our work in clinical trials to increase access to new treatments. These efforts received a major boost from a $31 million NIH grant to help us create a clinical research partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Tech, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. In cancer, we worked with community partners to implement the first state-wide clinical trial for patients with breast cancer. Meanwhile, early-stage clinical trials of an AIDS vaccine developed at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Emory Vaccine Center are under way.
• In its first year of existence, Emory’s Global Health Institute helped fund eight projects in low-resource countries, ranging from a drug discovery program in South Africa to a diabetes intervention in India.
• The Center for Health Discovery and Well-Being, part of the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute, opened at our midtown campus to provide participants personalized health programs designed to address individual health risks.
• Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing was one of 15 nursing schools in the nation tapped by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop quality and safety education curricula as part of a new model for nursing education.
• With a recent $50 million investment from its family namesake, Rollins School of Public Health will break ground this spring on a complex that will double its current space and accelerate teaching and research in global and predictive health, infectious disease, nutrition, cancer, and diabetes.
• Emory Healthcare physicians provided $53.6 million in charity care last year.
  

     A glimpse at these milestones and others throughout this book will show how we are bringing to reality our vision to transform health and healing.

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman, Emory Healthcare