At a Glance - Woodruff Health Sciences Center - Emory University

At a Glance
Woodruff HealtH ScienceS center
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On the cover: Rhazes (c. 850–c. 932), Persia’s first physician, wrote
a learned synthesis of medical thought. He is featured on one
of 33 panels of a mosaic on the history of medical science from
10,000 BCE to the present. The three-story mosaic is located in the
Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building.
A Message from the Executive Vice President
Transforming Health and Healing is both the vision and the
promise of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. It means
pioneering discoveries that advance our understanding of
disease prevention and treatment, preparing the next generation
of health professionals to save and improve lives in communities
worldwide, and continuously improving the quality
of care for our patients. Some of the recent accomplishments
made possible by our collaborators, trustees, donors, and
friends include the following:
n Emory School of Medicine opened a new, state-of-the-art
education building that enabled inauguration of a completely
revamped medical curriculum.
n 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.
n 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.
n 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.
n 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.
n 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.
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
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman, Emory Healthcare

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC)
encompasses components of Emory University responsible
for education of health professionals, research affecting
health and illness, patient care, and policies for prevention
and treatment of disease. The WHSC’s namesake, the
legendary leader of The Coca-Cola Company, was a man
whose vision and generosity left a lasting imprint on Emory
and on Atlanta.
In addition to the WHSC components listed in the following
pages, Emory University includes Emory College,
Oxford College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, and
professional schools of business, law, and theology. The student
body, including the WHSC, totals 12,570. Faculty total
3,077 and employees, 22,404 (including faculty). At $5.6 billion
(as of fiscal year 2007), Emory’s endowment ranks 17th
among universities in the United States.
Many of the WHSC facilities are located on or near
Emory’s main campus, 631 acres along the Clifton Corridor,
15 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Emory’s Briarcliff
Campus, 1 mile west of the main campus, is the site of
EMTech, a business incubator developed with Georgia
Tech. Emory’s Clairmont campus, 1 mile east of the main
campus, is the site of residential facilities for patients’
families.
Faculty and staff perform the WHSC’s core missions—
teaching, research, and patient care—at various hospitals
owned by or affiliated with Emory and at a number of
Emory Healthcare sites and affiliates throughout the city
and state. Physicians in Emory Healthcare and affiliate hospitals
are responsible for 4.4 million patient visits a year.
Comprehensive Figures
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s annual budget
is $2.2 billion, and its patient care component, Emory
Healthcare, provided $53.6 million in charity care in fiscal
year 2007. Research funding for 2006–2007 was $358.7
million. Faculty: 2,334, plus 1,556 adjunct or volunteer
faculty and collaborative scientists. Students and medical
residents in training: 4,351, including 434 students
in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences and 533 postdoctoral fellows. Employees: 14,544,
including Emory Healthcare. Total employees, including
faculty: 16,878. A partnership with Hospital Corporation
of America and a joint venture with Emory-Adventist
Hospital bring the WHSC’s total hospital beds to 1,708,
total annual hospital admissions to 56,503 and total outpatient
visits to 2.4 million.
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Woodruff Health Sciences Center Components
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center includes Emory
University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff
School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, Yerkes
National Primate Research Center, and Emory Healthcare,
the WHSC’s system of clinical operations.
Emory University School of Medicine (founded 1854)
Thomas J. Lawley, MD, Dean
Emory University School of Medicine is ranked among
the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical
research, and patient care. The school had 43 applications
in 2007 for each of its first-year positions, and its students
perform extremely well compared with their peers at other
schools. In 2007, for example, the pass rate for first-time
takers of part 1 of the National Board Exam was 99%. On
graduation, almost half of the school’s students pursue residencies
in primary care.
Student totals for the entering class of 2011 increased by
15% to 133. This increase was made possible by the opening
of a new medical school building in 2007, which enabled
implementation of a completely revised medical curriculum.
The school has a total of 480 medical students and trains
more than 1,100 residents and fellows in 80 accredited programs.
The school has 66 MD/PhD students in one of the
40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the
NIH and 454 postdoctoral fellows. Some of these MD/PhD
students are in a joint program with Georgia Institute of
Technology, with which the medical school shares a biomedical
engineering department ranked second in the country
in 2007 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school
has 14 MD/MPH and two MD/MBA students. More than
240 medical school faculty also train predoctoral bioscience
researchers in one or more of the eight programs of the
university’s Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences.
Faculty in five health professions programs train
420 students. These include a physician assistant program
ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report
and a physical therapy doctoral program ranked eighth.
The medical school’s faculty received $301.3 million
in sponsored research in 2007, including $36.5 million
received by medical faculty at Yerkes National Primate
Research Center. Ranked 18th nationally in NIH dollars
received, the school is one of the fastest-growing recipients
of NIH awards in the country. The school has 2,053 full-
and part-time faculty and 995 volunteer faculty.
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School of Medicine, continued
Physician faculty in Emory’s own hospitals, affiliated teaching
hospitals, and outpatient venues are responsible for
more than 3.6 million patient visits annually.
The school has 13,287 alumni (5,221 medical school
and 8,280 residency alumni), and one of every four physicians
in Georgia was trained at Emory. In addition to the
school’s regular education programs, 7,113 physicians and
other health care professionals came to Emory last year to
participate in continuing medical education.
In addition to Georgia Tech and other research institu- institu-
tions throughout the state and nation, the school maintains
strong ties with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
through a joint venture agreement.
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (1905)
Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN, Dean
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing produces
nursing leaders who are transforming health care through
science, education, practice, and policy worldwide. It has
207 baccalaureate, 194 master’s, and 12 doctoral students
as well as six postdoctoral fellows. Students who complete
their undergraduate degree go on to become national and
international leaders in patient care, public health, government,
and education. The school offers a dual-degree
program with several colleges, providing undergraduates
with a strong background in liberal arts and nursing. The
school’s master’s program offers opportunities to specialize
in advanced nursing practice in a number of clinical
settings and roles. Graduates are qualified to seek certification
as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and/or clinical
nurse specialists. A dual-degree option is available with
the Rollins School of Public Health, allowing students to
graduate with master’s degrees in both nursing and public
health. In this program, students can major in international
nursing, a rare offering in the United States or around the
world. The school’s PhD program is focused on generating
new knowledge to improve health and health care quality,
with emphasis on research on bio-behavioral determinants
of health, improving global health, and enhancing health
systems.
In 2007, the school received $3.3 million in research
funding. Nationally, the school ranks in the top 10 among
private schools in research funding from the NIH. It currently
is ranked 26th overall by U.S. News & World Report,
which also ranked the school’s nurse midwifery graduate
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program eighth in the nation. Major programs include the
Center for Research on Symptoms, Symptom Interactions,
and Health Outcomes; the Lillian Carter Center for
International Nursing; and the Fuld Fellowship, which
targets second-career students with a special interest in
serving vulnerable populations. The nursing school has 65
faculty and is affiliated with more than 300 clinical sites and
25 sites for community service learning. Additional learning
sites are available, including an alternative spring break
in four countries and a multiuniversity, multidiscipline
collaborative summer program with Georgia migrant farm
workers. The school has approximately 10,000 graduates.
Rollins School of Public Health (1990)
James W. Curran, MD, MPH, Dean
The Rollins School of Public Health has 781 master’s degree
students; 121 PhD students who choose from degree options
in behavioral sciences and health education, biostatistics,
epidemiology, environmental and occupational health,
health policy and management, and global health; and 21
postdoctoral fellows. The school has approximately 4,500
alumni.
A leader in interdisciplinary studies, the school offers
dual-degree programs with medicine, nursing, health professions,
business, and law. Master’s degrees also are available
with a concentration in clinical research. The Career MPH
is a distance-learning program for mid-career professionals
who wish to pursue a degree while employed.
In 2007, the school recorded $54.7 million in research
funding. These funds support research efforts in cancer
epidemiology, nutrition, environmental and occupational
health, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, addictive
behaviors, youth violence, antibiotic resistance, micronutrient
malnutrition, diabetes and obesity, and health care costs
and allocation of health resources.
Many of the 180 full-time faculty and more than 250
adjunct faculty in six academic departments are linked by
appointments, shared programs, or research grants with
the CDC, The Carter Center, the American Cancer Society,
CARE, the Arthritis Foundation, the Task Force for Child
Survival and Development, and state and local public health
agencies. Through these partnerships and in its role as a
center for international health research and training, the
school helps make Atlanta the public health capital of the
world. The school is ranked 7th among peer institutions by
U.S. News & World Report.
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Yerkes National Primate Research Center (1930)
Stuart M. Zola, PhD, Director
One of eight national primate research centers funded by
the NIH, Yerkes National Primate Research Center is dedicated
to advancing scientific understanding and to improving
human health and well-being. Supported by $42.6 million
in funding, Yerkes’ research program includes approximately
115 projects. Studies involve 3,400 nonhuman primates,
which provide a critical link between research with
small laboratory animals and the clinical trials performed
in humans. Approximately 1,150 of the animals are at the
main center on the Emory campus and another 2,250 are
at a 117-acre satellite facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In
addition, the center has some 7,000 rodents in its research
vivariums.
In addition to 331 staff members, Yerkes is home to
32 faculty scientists, 113 affiliate and 41 collaborative faculty,
and 74 research associates from Emory and other
institutions. More than 150 graduate and undergraduate
students participate in research and educational programs
at Yerkes, including 52 postdoctoral fellows.
Yerkes is making landmark discoveries in microbiology
and immunology, neuroscience, psychobiology, and
sensory-motor systems. One of the center’s primary goals,
working with the Emory Vaccine Center, is to develop an
AIDS vaccine to combat the global epidemic now affecting
more than 42 million people.
Other significant research programs are seeking ways
to increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as
Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, unlock the secrets of memory,
treat drug addiction, determine behavioral effects of
hormone replacement therapy, address vision disorders,
advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between
biology and behavior, and interpret brain activity through
imaging. Yerkes is the only U.S. primate center to have onsite
MRI, PET, and cyclotron facilities.
Collaboration is key to Yerkes research. At the Living
Links Center, scientists collaborate to study the animal
roots of human social behaviors, such as cooperation, affiliation,
and reconciliation. Yerkes researchers who also are
members of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN)
collaborate with scientists from the CBN’s consortium of
eight Atlanta-based institutions in research and education.
Because of their similarity to humans in genetic
makeup, behavior, and organ-system function, nonhuman
primates provide irreplaceable opportunities to better
understand, prevent, and treat human disease.
Emory Healthcare (1997)
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Chairman
John T. Fox, President and CEO
Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health
care system in Georgia (see pages 8-9), includes Emory
University Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital,
Emory University Hospital Northlake, Wesley Woods
Center, The Emory Clinic, Emory-Children’s Center, the
jointly owned Emory-Adventist Hospital, and EHCA, a
limited liability company created in collaboration with
Hospital Corporation of America. Emory Healthcare has
$1.5 billion in net revenue and provides $53.6 million in
charity care annually. It has 10,093 employees and 1,310
hospital beds (1,708 beds counting joint ventures).
A key business area of Emory Healthcare is Emory
Specialty Associates, an outreach physician group practice
organization that includes specialty divisions of primary
care, cardiology, anesthesiology, pathology, and emergency
medicine.
In conjunction with Air Methods Corporation, Emory
provides medical oversight for four Emory Flight helicopters
from centers in metro Atlanta, Griffin, Jefferson, and
Cartersville that cover Georgia and surrounding states.
The helicopters are on 24-hour standby to lift critically ill
patients to the closest appropriate hospital.
Emory Healthcare Components
The Emory Clinic (1953)
Wright Caughman, MD, Director
Don Brunn, COO
The primary port of access to adult patient care in Emory
Healthcare and the largest, most comprehensive group
practice in Georgia, The Emory Clinic has more than
1,200 physicians, nurse clinicians, and physician assistants.
Employees: 2,327. Patient visits in 2007: 1,904,326. Clinic
facilities on Emory’s campus include its multispecialty
headquarters; the 1525 Building, which houses primary
care as well as programs in preventive medicine, wellness,
and Executive Health; the Winship Cancer Institute; and
ambulatory practices at Wesley Woods. Facilities at Emory
Crawford Long Medical Office Tower include more than
12 specialty practices, with care provided by nearly 80 physicians.
Emory Clinic physicians also practice in a number
of comprehensive health care centers throughout metro
Atlanta—at the Orthopaedics & Spine Center at Executive
Park and primary care and heart center facilities at Decatur,
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Emory Healthcare
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Emory Hospitals and Long-term Care
1. Emory University Hospital
2. Emory Crawford Long Hospital
3. Wesley Woods Center (includes Wesley Woods
Hospital for geriatric care and
Budd Terrace Nursing Home)
4. Emory University Hospital Northlake
Joint Venture Hospitals
5. Emory-Adventist Hospital
6. Emory Eastside Medical Center (EHCA)
7. Emory Johns Creek Hospital (EHCA)
Emory-Children’s Center
8. Pediatric Clinic
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The Emory Clinic
Primary and multispecialty care centers
9. The Emory Clinic (Buildings A&B,
Winship Cancer Institute, and 1525 Building)
10. Wesley Woods
11. Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center
12. Emory Crawford Long Medical Office Tower
13. Decatur (primary care)
14. Perimeter (primary care)
15. Smyrna (primary care)
16. Flat Shoals Parkway (primary care)
17. Sugarloaf (primary care)
18. Dunwoody (primary care)
19. Emory Eastside (heart and vascular)
20. Emory Johns Creek (heart and vascular)
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The Emory Clinic, continued
Dunwoody, Flat Shoals Parkway, Perimeter, Emory Eastside,
Emory Johns Creek, Smyrna, and Sugarloaf.
Emory-Children’s Center (1997)
Barbara J. Stoll, MD, CEO
The largest pediatric multispecialty group practice in
Georgia, the Emory-Children’s Center (ECC) is a joint
venture between Emory and Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta. It comprises 200 Emory physician faculty involved
in pediatric clinical services, teaching, research, and child
advocacy. In addition to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
(at Egleston, Scottish Rite, and Hughes Spalding hospitals),
ECC provides specialty pediatric care at Emory Crawford
Long Hospital, Grady Hospital, and at pediatric clinics on
Emory’s campus. Patient visits in 2007: 92,131 (outpatient)
and 102,702 (inpatient). Staff employees: 117.
Emory University Hospital (1905)
Robert J. Bachman, COO
A 579-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University
Hospital is staffed exclusively by 960 Emory University
School of Medicine faculty. It includes a 20-bed psychiatric
facility, 102 ICU beds, a 56-bed rehab center, and a ninebed
clinical research center supported by the NIH. Patients
in 2007: 23,494 admissions and 81,919 outpatient visits.
Employees: 3,568. The hospital is long known for cardiology,
cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology, and neurology/
neurosurgery and is one of the region’s most comprehensive
multiple organ and tissue transplant centers. It was named in
eight of 17 specialties ranked by U.S. News & World Report
in the 2007 publication of America’s Best Hospitals. For
the 10th year in a row, members of the Atlanta community
named Emory University Hospital as the Consumer’s Choice
Award winner.
Emory Crawford Long Hospital (1908)
Dane C. Peterson, COO
A 511-bed community-based, tertiary care center in
midtown Atlanta, Emory Crawford Long is staffed by
892 Emory medical faculty and 545 community physicians.
This hospital celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2008.
Medical services include 56 intensive care beds, a level 3
neonatal intensive care unit, and four hyperbaric oxygen
units. Patients in 2007: 22,775 admissions and 157,138
outpatient visits. Employees: 2,749. Emory Crawford Long
Hospital’s case-mix index (a measure of the complexity of
illnesses treated) is higher than that of most community
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hospitals. The hospital is well known for services in cardiology,
cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, and emergency
medicine. Women’s services include prenatal and postnatal
education, bone density testing, mammography, and obstetrics,
with a specialization in high-risk pregnancy.
Wesley Woods Center (1954)
Albert K. Blackwelder, COO
This geriatric center includes Wesley Woods Hospital
(1987), a 100-bed geriatric specialty facility. Founded by the
United Methodist Church and Emory University, Wesley
Woods Center serves more than 30,000 elderly and chronically
ill patients each year. In addition to the hospital and
a 25-bed inpatient hospice service, Wesley Woods has an
outpatient primary care clinic, a 250-bed skilled nursing care
facility (Budd Terrace), and a 201-unit residential retirement
facility (Wesley Woods Towers), with one floor of 18 units
dedicated to personal care. Patients in 2007: 2,375 admissions
and 37,584 outpatient visits. Employees: 665 (Wesley
Woods Center) and 271 (Wesley Woods Senior Living residential
retirement facilities, for which Emory Healthcare
has management responsibilities). Wesley Woods is well
known for its inpatient, outpatient, and day hospitalization
programs in depression, sleep disorders, rehabilitation, and
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease.
Emory University Hospital Northlake (2007)
Robert J. Bachman, COO
A newly acquired 120-bed facility, Emory University
Hospital Northlake provides diagnostic and support services
for inpatient care and includes space allowing for teaching
and research within the clinical environment.
Emory-Adventist Hospital (1974)
Dennis Kiley, President
As part of its commitment to community care, Emory
jointly owns Emory-Adventist Hospital with Adventist
Health System. Located in Smyrna in rapidly growing Cobb
County, this hospital has 88 acute care beds and is staffed
by more than 175 physicians, including those from The
Emory Clinic, who provide both primary care and specialized
services. Patients in 2007: 1,939 admissions and 56,003
outpatient visits. Employees: 450.
EHCA, LLC (1999)
Lawrence H. Kloess III, FACHE, Chairman of the Board
EHCA, LLC, is a limited liability company overseen by
a board jointly governed by Emory Healthcare and
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EHCA, continued
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Through
this and another parent company, EHCA Johns Creek
Holdings, Emory is responsible for clinical performance
improvement and quality assurance in two local hospitals.
HCA manages day-to-day operations of these facilities.
EHCA broadens the community’s access to care under the
Emory umbrella to 1,708 patient beds.
Emory Eastside Medical Center (1980)
Kim Ryan, CEO
Located in the suburban Atlanta city of Snellville, Emory
Eastside Hospital (parent company EHCA) is a 200-bed
acute care hospital with 450 Emory and community physicians.
The hospital has a 12-bed labor and delivery unit and
an 18-bed neonatal intensive care unit and nursery. Services
also include specialty care for heart and cancer in addition
to other specialties. Patients in 2007: 3,104 admissions and
20,159 outpatient visits. Employees: 1,500.
Emory Johns Creek Hospital (2007)
John D. Quinlivan, CEO
Located in the north metro community of Johns Creek,
Emory Johns Creek Hospital (parent company EHCA
Johns Creek Holdings) is a 110-bed facility staffed by 400
physicians, the majority of whom are community physicians.
Emory anesthesiologists, radiologists, pathologists,
and hospitalists provide hospital-based care. Services
include emergency care, digital imaging, a birth center with
level 3 neonatal intensive care, a bariatric center, intensive
care, advanced cardiac care, and women’s services. Patients
in 2007 (Feb.-Dec.): 2,816 admissions and 8,084 outpatient
visits. Employees: 500.
Affiliates for Patient Care, Teaching, and Research
Emory University School of Medicine faculty also
provide care, much of it highly specialized, through longstanding
affiliations with the following:
n Grady Memorial Hospital, 953 beds. Staffed
primarily by Emory physicians and residents, in
collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine.
n Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, 235 beds
(Emory campus) and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at
Hughes Spalding, 24 beds (Grady campus). Both staffed
primarily by Emory pediatricians, including specialists
and subspecialists.
n Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 173 hospital
beds and 100 nursing home beds. Staffed primarily by
Emory physicians.
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Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Impact on Georgia
As a dynamic destination for education, a robust research
institution, and the largest, most comprehensive health care
provider in the state, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center
(WHSC) impacts Georgia in a variety of ways.
n It helps make Emory University the largest employer in
DeKalb County and the largest private employer in the
20-county metro Atlanta area.
n With $2.2 billion in operating expenses, the WHSC’s
annual economic impact on metro Atlanta is estimated at
$4.8 billion.
n Two major new buildings opened in 2007, including
a 162,000-square-foot medical school building and a
110-bed joint-venture hospital off campus (Emory Johns
Creek Hospital). Emory also acquired a 120-bed hospital,
christened Emory University Hospital Northlake, also off
campus. Construction planned for the coming decade calls
for new research buildings, a new public health building,
a Yerkes Field Station facility, and new clinic and hospital
space, including expansion of facilities on Emory’s campus
in midtown Atlanta.
n Emory is a member of the Georgia Research Alliance
(GRA), a partnership of business, research universities,
and state government that fosters economic development
in the state. Through the GRA, the state invests in research
in the WHSC in molecular screening for new drugs, nanotechnology,
vaccines, genomics, biomedical and tissue
engineering, cancer, imaging, and neuroscience.
n The WHSC attracted $358.7 million in research funds last
year. Major recent federal grants include $32.8 million to
establish a National Center of Excellence for Influenza
Research and Surveillance, $31 million to fund the Atlanta
Clinical and Translational Science Institute to spur new
treatments for patients, $25.5 million to lead a local component
of the landmark National Children’s Study, $12.5
million to the Winship Cancer Institute to fund research in
head and neck cancer, and $10 million to Yerkes National
Primate Research Center to compare aging-related changes
in human and nonhuman primates.
n The WHSC is a major player in technology transfer, with
eight licensed therapeutic products in the marketplace in
addition to 23 in various stages of development or approval.
Emory has launched 43 start-up companies over the past
decade, some with help from EMTech, a biotech incubator
developed with Georgia Tech.
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WHSC impact on Georgia, continued
n The Winship Cancer Institute is a key participant in the
Georgia Cancer Coalition, a statewide program working
to make the latest advances in cancer care available to all
Georgians and investing in research at Emory. Winship
also works with the Georgia Center for Oncology Research
and Education to partner with community-based physicians
to make more clinical trials of new treatments available
to patients throughout the state.
n The WHSC is the lead partner in the Southeastern Center
for Emerging Biologic Threats, a regional consortium
addressing natural and human-caused biologic threats,
such as West Nile virus and pandemic flu. The WHSC also
helps lead Emory’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness
and Response, created last year to improve the university’s
ability to deliver a coordinated and effective response to
catastrophic events.
n The Emory Vaccine Center is one of the largest academic
vaccine centers in the world, with scientists working to
develop vaccines for AIDS, malaria, hepatitis C, avian flu,
and other infectious diseases. Emory’s Hope Clinic, which
conducts clinical trials for promising vaccines, is part
of the premier network in the country for HIV vaccine
prevention trials. The Vaccine Center recently partnered
with the International Center for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology to establish a vaccine center in New Delhi,
India, to develop vaccines against infectious diseases disproportionately
affecting the developing world.
n Emory provides medical direction of Grady Health
System’s Ponce Center, one of the largest, most comprehensive
AIDS treatment centers in the country, and was
recently designated a primary site in the nation’s premier
NIH-funded clinical trials network.
n WHSC’s physicians provide $53.6 million annually in
charity care through Emory Healthcare and $26.3 million
in uncompensated care at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Through Emory-Children’s Center, Emory also is the
preeminent provider of specialty care to indigent children
in Georgia. Nursing faculty and students support major
volunteer efforts for homeless Atlantans, migrant workers,
and people with AIDS. Public health faculty and students
influence health policy affecting the community’s most
economically vulnerable, and they partner with the state
Division of Public Health to train workers in dealing with
infectious diseases and to help prevent cancer, HIV infection,
and adolescent pregnancy.
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Woodruff Health Sciences Center Officers
M. Douglas Ivester
Chairman, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board
James W. Wagner, PhD
President, Emory University
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD
Executive VP for Health Affairs, Emory University
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman, Emory Healthcare
Charles T. Andrews, MPA
Senior Associate VP for Space Planning and Construction
Shari M. Capers
Associate VP, Health Sciences Strategic Planning
S. Wright Caughman, MD
VP for Clinical and Academic Integration
Director, The Emory Clinic
John T. Fox, MBA
President and CEO, Emory Healthcare
Philippe G. Hills, MPA
VP, Development, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Gregory H. Jones, EdD, MBA, MSC
Associate VP for Health Affairs
Jane E. Jordan, JD
Deputy General Counsel/Chief Health Counsel
Emory University
Ronnie L. Jowers, MBA
VP for Health Affairs
CFO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH
VP for Global Health
Director, Emory Global Health Institute
Jeffrey L. Molter
Associate VP, Health Sciences Communications
David S. Stephens, MD
VP for Research, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Gary L. Teal, MBA
Senior Associate VP for Administration
Chief of Staff to the Executive VP for Health Affairs
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HEALTH SCIENCES AND RELATED
FACILITIES, EMORY CAMPUS
1 Autism Resource Center (Clairmont Campus)
2 Biochemistry Connector
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
(includes cafeteria and parking)
5 Cox Hall (food court)
6 Emory-Children’s Center
7 The Emory Clinic–Building A (various clinic specialties)
8 The Emory Clinic–Building B (Emory Eye Center
and other clinic sections)
9 The Emory Clinic 1525 Building (includes primary
care and the Blomeyer Fitness Center)
10 Emory University Hospital (includes cafeteria)
11 Emory University School of Medicine
12 Emory Vaccine Center
13 EMTech (Briarcliff Campus)
14 Health Sciences Library
15 Mental Health Services
16 Neuroscience Research Building
17 Rehabilitation Center
18 Rollins Research Center
19 Rollins School of Public Health
20 Wesley Woods Center (geriatric care)
21 Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
22 Winship Cancer Institute
23 Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
24 Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Administration Building (WHSCAB)
25 Woodruff Memorial Research Building
26 Woodruff Physical Education Center (gym facilities)
27 Yerkes National Primate Research Center
ACCOMMODATIONS
28 (a) Emory Conference Center, (b) Emory Inn
29 Hope Lodge (cancer patients)
30 Mason Guest House (transplant patients)
31 Ronald McDonald House (pediatric patients)
PARKING
(patient valet parking available at entrances to Emory Hospital
and Emory Clinic Buildings A & B)
32 1525 Clifton Road Parking Deck (patient and visitor)
33 Fishburne Parking Deck (visitor)
34 Lowergate Parking Deck (patient and visitor)
35 Peavine Parking Deck (visitor)
36 Clairmont Campus Parking Deck (visitor)
OFF-CAMPUS FACILITIES
n Atlanta VA Medical Center–2 miles east
n Emory Crawford Long Hospital–5.5 miles west
n Emory University Hospital Northlake–5.5 miles east
n Emory Medical Genetics–1 mile east
n Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center–5 miles north
n Grady Memorial Hospital–5.8 miles west
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frequently called numbers
n Health Sciences Communications:
404-727-5686
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n Emory HealthConnection
(patient information and physician referral):
404-778-7777
n Admissions
Medical School: 404-727-5660
Health Professions: 404-727-5682
School of Nursing: 404-727-7980
School of Public Health: 404-727-0195
n Yerkes National Primate Research Center,
Office of Public Affairs: 404-727-7709
n Emory University Office of Governmental
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and Community Affairs: 404-727-5166
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Emo r y Un i v E r s i t y
w o o d r U f f h E a l t h s c i E n c E s c E n t E r
1440 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
whsc.emory.edu/
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