Emory School of Medicine’s goal is simple: to make people healthy. Reaching that goal is complex and depends on private support. Through Campaign Emory, the school will continue to educate the best new doctors, provide patient care based on the latest science, and recruit more world-class researchers to find new treatments and cures.
Donor investment already has spurred many such innovations—including performing the world’s first artificial cornea transplant, repairing a beating heart, and inventing a drug compound used to treat 94 percent of Americans with HIV/AIDS. Emory School of Medicine’s research enterprise is among the fastest growing in the nation because its scientists focus on what’s important.
Emory School of Medicine comes from a long tradition of good works. Born more than 150 years ago to care for the underserved in Atlanta, the school has evolved from a respected regional pacesetter to an international presence with an enduring ethic. Emory has trained more than 32,000 physicians, including scientists whose discoveries have saved lives and relieved the suffering of people around the world. Closer to home, if you are in a car wreck, suffer a heart attack, or become critically ill in Georgia, an Emory doctor or one who trained at Emory probably will take care of you. One of four doctors now practicing in Georgia learned the art and science of medicine at Emory.
The school’s new curriculum is among the most innovative, student-centered, and patient-focused in academic medicine, as is its state-of-the-art medical education building. Medicine’s new home opened in 2007, thanks to many generous friends, alumni, and grateful patients who believe in Emory’s mission. But there is much more to do.
Never has the opportunity for philanthropy to help change lives been greater. Your investment will support Emory researchers who are working to create vaccines that will stop cancer, AIDS, malaria, Alzheimer’s, and other chronic and infectious diseases.
Emory neuroscientists are developing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, depression, and traumatic brain injury. Emory transplant surgeons are finding new ways to greatly increase the life span of patients who receive organ transplants. Through nanotechnology, Emory is customizing treatments for cancer and other illnesses. Emory scientists are using bone marrow stem cells to treat heart attacks and are genetically engineering proteins to regrow bone. Predictive health experts work to identify possible diseases in infancy and prevent them from ever happening.
Ranking among the nation’s best medical schools is a serious responsibility and ceaseless challenge, and that’s why your gift is so critical now. Your investment will propel innovative new approaches to medicine: fostering health as well as focusing on disease; strengthening the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Your gift will help Emory teach students not only the art and science of medicine but also compassion and caring. Through scholarship support, you will make it possible for the best students to get an Emory medical education.
Emory School of Medicine has the talent, knowledge, imagination, and vision to change lives. With your investment, Emory will continue to make the world a healthier place.
