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what a year it has been. Many changes and growth are afoot at the
school and the university. James Wagner was inaugurated in April
as Emory’s 19th president and with him an exciting and ambitious
vision for the university—one that the School of Nursing eagerly
embraced, simply because that’s what we’ve been committed
to all along.
President Wagner envisions Emory as
“a destination university internationally recognized as an
inquiry-driven, ethically engaged, and diverse community, whose
members work collaboratively for positive transformation in the
world through courageous leadership in teaching, research, scholarship,
health care, and social action.”
In a word, that’s us—the
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School
of Nursing.
For a century, we’ve been transforming
the world through care, graduating courageous nursing leaders and
working collaboratively with our health care partners at university,
local, regional, national, and global levels to provide the very
best in patient care.
This summer, Emory truly became an
internationally recognized destination university when the Lillian
Carter Center for International Nursing hosted our second global
conference for world health leaders. In June, more than 160 chief
nursing officers, chief medical officers, and ministers of health
from 70 developed and developing countries (pictured outside The
Carter Center below) gathered to form groundbreaking partnerships
and address biological threats at the Global Government Health Partners
Forum 2004.
Our 12 Fuld Fellows are blazing the
path of what it means to be inquiry-driven and ethically engaged.
Already they are transforming the world through their commitment
to social responsibility and working with vulnerable populations.
Two of our faculty members continue
to set inspiring examples for our students and the university community
on what it means to be a courageous leader. Dr. Maureen Kelley’s
advocacy for nurse-midwives at home and in the Caribbean and Russia
and Dr. Marcia McDonnell’s research and work with female HIV/AIDS
patients in Atlanta embody Emory’s ideals of teaching, research,
scholarship, health care, and social action.
In 2005, we celebrate the 100th anniversary
of Emory School of Nursing. Our Centennial is a time to reflect
on the wonderful things our students, faculty, and alumni have accomplished
in nursing, but also a time to continue forging ahead and shaping
the future of care.
In short, our students, alumni, faculty,
and staff are making a world of difference. And for that we’re
extremely proud.
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