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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has selected Jeff M. Sands, MD, FASN for the Barry Brenner, MD Endowed Lectureship at Kidney Week 2015. This prestigious lectureship recognizes physicians whose efforts to improve the…
Have you ever worried about transitioning patient care after a rotation? Emory University’s Andrew Ip, MD discusses the challenges of medical transitions of care in a recent Insights on Residency Training blog for the New England…
Congratulations to Neela D. Goswami, MD, MPH and Ruth M. Parker, MD, who were selected for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel on Communications and Dissemination of Research earlier this year. Dr….
Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute and prIME Oncology will host the 6th annual Winship Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the InterContinental Buckhead in Atlanta. This educational…