Support the 2015 Metro Atlanta Heart Walk
2015 Metro Atlanta Heart Walk Date: Saturday, September 26 Time: Opening ceremonies begin at 8 a.m.; walk begins at 8:30 a.m. Location: Centennial Olympic Park This message is sent on behalf of Mike…
Articles by Emory Department of Medicine
Emory Medicine Professional Leadership Enrichment and Development program (EM-ProLEAD)
Emory Medicine Professional Leadership Enrichment and Development Program (EM-ProLEAD): Nominations Open: August 24 Nominations Close: September 14 Nominations can be submitted via the nomination form. To learn more, please visit our Office of Development Programs website.
Reminder: Join Bryce Gartland, CEO, EUH/EUOSH/EWWH, for a town hall meeting
This message is sent on behalf of Communications Dear Team, As a reminder, we invite all staff and faculty to join Bryce Gartland, CEO, EUH/EUOSH/EWWH, for a Town Hall to discuss our future, share your…
Clinical Skills Workshop: Oct. 1
The Department of Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Community is offering a series of mini-workshops aimed at improving clinical examination skills of faculty and the teaching of those clinical skills to trainees. Save the date for this…
Srinivasan is keynote speaker at first Antibiotic Resistance Center seminar
The first quarterly Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center seminar and poster session, Antibiotic Resistance: National Priorities for Urgent Action, was held August 19 in the Emory Health Sciences Research Building. The keynote speech was given by Arjun…
The Legacy of Emory at Grady: When Emory Went to War
In World War I, U.S. Army Surgeon General William Gorgas asked for medical professionals to volunteer for the war effort, and doctors and nurses from Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital answered…
The Legacy of Emory at Grady: Notable Firsts
1896 A children’s ward opens at Grady Memorial Hospital—the first in Georgia and reportedly the first in the Southeast. 1920 The first women of color to be certified as nurses by the state of Georgia…
“Death: The Upside” by Richard Smith, MD: Aug. 11
DEATH: THE UPSIDE Without death, every birth would be a tragedy. We need to learn to see the many positive aspects of death, but the evidence shows both that our society denies death and that…
The Legacy of Emory at Grady: No Turning Back
While the Emory-Grady partnership provided, in one administrator’s words, “abundant clinical material,” Emory University School of Medicine struggled mightily for decades to overcome economic obstacles—namely, the inability to pay clinical faculty. By 1940, in the wake…
Aug. 2 marks first anniversary of Ebola care at Emory
Sunday, August 2 marks the one-year anniversary of the arrival of Dr. Kent Brantly–the first Ebola virus disease (EVD) patient to be treated in the United States–at Emory University Hospital. Emory’s decision to treat the…