Ask the Dean
We invite you to send your own questions to the dean via the contact information listed on the inside back cover of this issue. With your permission, we will print your question, along with the dean's response.

At a recent meeting of the Medical Alumni Association, board members had a Q&A with the dean. The following is exerpted from their conversation, with updates added to the dean's remarks.


The Grady Plan

Is Emory's commitment to Grady as strong as it used to be? What are the school's plans for the future regarding Grady?

Peggy Duke, 77M
Vice President
Medical Alumni Association


Dean Lawley replies:  There should be no doubt in anyone's mind about Emory's commitment to patient care at Grady. In fact, we've just completed a five-year plan to strengthen that commitment and help sustain it for the future. Morehouse is also working on its own long-range plan for its role at Grady.

Currently, more than half of our faculty spend some or all of their time at Grady, with some 370 Emory residents and 100 students supporting patient care. Faculty provide millions of dollars in uncompensated care ($24 million per year, according to the most recent figures available), and our residents garner about $20 million in federal support for Grady that otherwise would disappear.

The long-range plan calls for increasing the number of full-time faculty at Grady and expanding office and classroom space. To meet both these goals, we hope to build an office building at Grady on land Emory owns. The Emory Medical Care Foundation, to which Emory doctors at Grady contribute 10% of their clinical income, has committed $6 million toward this building, and we hope to match this figure to get this building under way in the next 18 months.

We've made progress in other areas as well. We built a new library and lounge for residents, used by both Emory and Morehouse, on the 16th floor, which some of you toured during Alumni Weekend. Space has been designated on the eighth floor at Grady for a new satellite of Emory's General Clinical Research Center, which will provide wonderful opportunities not just in research but in teaching too. And Emory, Grady, and Morehouse are developing plans for a cancer center at Grady, with support from the Georgia Cancer Coalition. We're working hard to implement our plan to continue our 86-year relationship with Grady for many decades to come.

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