Strategic Plan
Letter from Dr. Jonathan LewinCollaborate, Innovate, Serve
Constructive Culture
Our goal is to be the best place to work, continuously learn, and grow for individuals and the health sciences center community
Strategies
- Cultivate our leaders to build a constructive, diverse, and inclusive culture
- Adopt the WHSC Pledge as the foundation of our culture
- Strengthen recognition of excellence and enhance work/life quality to promote professional joy
Tactics
- Define clear expectations of our leaders
- Provide tools and resources to train leaders and leverage leadership best practices
- Enhance communication and connectivity between units to make it easier for people to network
- Adapt the principles of the WHSC Board-approved Pledge to incorporate faculty, staff, and learners
- Leverage data from engagement surveys to identify key opportunities to improve culture and work environments
ESJH Magnet Designation
Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital was the first community hospital in the world to achieve its sixth consecutive Magnet designation.
Read moreInterprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Our goal is to transform health care through interprofessional learning and care to maximize health
Strategies
- Invest in infrastructure to support Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) across WHSC
- Institute inter-professional curricula that support team-based competencies for all learners, faculty, and care providers
- Accelerate the development and adoption of team-based care models and advance knowledge on IPECP effectiveness through research
Tactics
- Establish an IPECP Council to lead and coordinate IPECP activities across the WHSC
- Expand and strengthen the Woodruff Health Educators Academy
- Establish IPECP learning objectives and competency expectations across WHSC teaching programs and ensure learners demonstrate the required IPECP knowledge and skills
A small group of Emory students from the schools of medicine, nursing, public health and law have banded together to try to curb health care costs by bringing a national initiative to Atlanta.
Read moreThe Woodruff Health Educators Academy (WHEA) Teaching Fellowship offers an opportunity for fellows to shore up their teaching skills.
Read moreTransforming Models of Care
Our goal is to continuously lead in developing, studying, implementing, and teaching care models that improve lives and achieve better patient outcomes and experience at a lower cost, with inherent joy of providing care by the care team
Strategies
- Innovate clinical care delivery by supporting successful testing, implementation, and evaluation of impact on the quadruple aim
- Align and support health services research (HSR) across Emory
- Expand HSR/care models education and continuing professional development
Tactics
- Establish the structure and process for developing and testing new care models and appoint a Clinical Innovation task force to lead the process
- Develop options to align HSR led by an interdisciplinary HSR task force
New council addresses issues of opioid safety
Read moreContinuously improving patient care
Read moreMemory care
A nurse-led clinic provides primary and dementia care for patients and families
Read moreInnovative Discovery
Our goal is to fuel interdisciplinary discovery and innovative solutions to improve human health
Strategies
- Enable high-risk, high-impact research leading to the discovery and development of new therapies and devices
- Catalyze synergies by bringing researchers together across organizational boundaries
- Develop a Cohort of the Future that is representative of the State to target major disparities and significant health issues for Georgians
Tactics
- Facilitate innovation, entrepreneurship, and the development of intellectual property across Emory
- Identify novel technology focus areas to guide recruitment and development of people and new technologies
- Expand the Synergy award program to drive collaborative research across Emory around key themes
- Charge a task force to define, catalog, and understand existing cohorts and identify ways to leverage cohorts across Emory
- Host a symposium on cohort design and utilization in research with partner institutions and cohort innovators from around the country
The All of Us research program is a momentous effort to advance individualized prevention, treatment and care for people of all backgrounds.
Read moreWhy are those born in the rural South less healthy and prone to die sooner?
Read moreHealth Sciences Research Building (HSRB)-II
HSRB-II construction slated to begin later this year
Read moreData Science
Our goal is to transform discovery, education, and health care through data science
Strategy
- Launch a Health and Biomedical Data Science Center to drive research and teaching in biomedical data science and informatics across Emory and our partners
Tactics
- Appoint leadership and steering committee to coordinate and facilitate data sciences activities across Emory and our partners
- Implement a plan to create the Health and Biomedical Data Science Center
Biomedical engineers at Emory/Georgia Tech and Northwestern were awarded a $1 million grant from DARPA for their research on artificial intelligence and neural interfaces.
Read moreTHINK BIG Luminary Lecture - "The Promise of Precision Medicine: Harnessing New Technologies for Public Health Impact"
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