S. Wright Caughman, MD
Vice President for Clinical and Academic Integration
 S. Wright Caughman, MD, is vice president for clinical and academic integration in Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center, director of The Emory Clinic and executive associate dean for clinical affairs.
Dr. Caughman provides strategic leadership in consolidating expertise and accelerating collaboration among the multiple components of the Health Sciences Center, including all Emory Healthcare sites and all affiliate sites, such as the VA Medical Center, Grady Memorial Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. He is exploring new opportunities and initiatives to achieve maximum integration in education, research and patient-centered care, including the development of integrated outpatient and inpatient healthcare, clinical research and clinical educational facilities across the Emory campuses.
Dr. Caughman is directing implementation of the strategic plans for the five centers of excellence, including the Comprehensive Center for Neuroscience, the Heart and Vascular Center, the Emory Transplant Center, the Winship Cancer Institute and the Emory Center for Respiratory Health. He also works closely with the leaders of the Emory Predictive Health Institute and with other interdisciplinary centers and programs to ensure synergy across the Health Sciences Center.
After serving as medical officer and principal investigator in the dermatology branch of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Caughman joined the dermatology faculty at Emory in 1990. In addition to teaching and working as a staff physician at The Emory Clinic, Grady Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, he was director of research in Emory's Department of Dermatology for four years before becoming department chair.
He has been a member of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, of the Winship Cancer Institute faculty, and has served as director of the Emory Skin Diseases Research Center. Dr. Caughman led a successful research program in cutaneous biology for many years and was one of two co-chairs of the School of Medicine research strategic plans in 1997 and 2003. He was named chair of the Department of Dermatology in 1997.
After receiving his undergraduate degree at Davidson College and his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Caughman completed his residency (and served as chief resident) in dermatology at Harvard Medical School. He was a high school English teacher for several years before pursuing his medical degree.
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