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Dean's Message

We are living at a unique time in biomedical history, with unparalleled opportunities to advance biomedical knowledge and translate it to the clinical setting. Seizing these opportunities requires a relentless focus on connectivity-across missions, departments, specialties, and institutions. We aim to do no less than re-imagine medicine.

Where Our Plans Fit

We’re building our strategic framework to align with and support others created by our colleagues in the Emory ecosystem.

Emory University's 2O36 The Future Starts Here Campaign
Fosters excellence in health care and medicine, transforms students' educational experiences and creates opportunities for groundbreaking research.

Emory University’s One Emory: Engaged for Impact
Plan to solidify Emory’s reputation as a leading research university

Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Strategic Plan
Priorities for shaping the future of health sciences

On this strong foundational support, SOM leaders are defining what it means to be a leader in biomedical research. Achieving our vision of eminence will require the commitment of our entire faculty and staff, with our research stakeholders providing the expertise and ideas to drive us forward. 

Shared Values

This Innovation Driver (A – F) framework represents our shared core values. This is how we evaluate the strategies and initiatives outlined in our planning process.

As we generate new ideas, we commit to evaluating them against this framework by asking the following questions:

  • Acceleration: Will this accelerate discovery and innovation? We need to trade reticence for action, for piloting, for moving faster.
  • Bold: Is this bold enough to fulfill our goal of eminence? We want to aim for cures, not palliation.
  • Connectivity: Does this create opportunities for connectivity, and more importantly, for synergy?
  • Data-Driven: Can this be supported by data-driven evidence?
  • Engagement & Inclusion: Core to everything we do are our people — does this encourage and enhance a culture and community of engagement and inclusion? (Which to us means mutual respect underlying everything we do.)
  • Fun: Is this fun?
Strategic Framework
  • Dean's Message
  • Road Map of the Strategic Planning Process
  • Research Strategic Plan
    • Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    • Infrastructure
    • Eminence
    • Interactions
    • People
    • Catalyze and Seed
  • Transforming Education in the School of Medicine
    • Steering Committee
    • Working Groups
    • Change Makers
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategic Plan