Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center provided $813 million in community benefits in fiscal year 2022. From top-flight medical care to transformational research and education, the WHSC improved lives and provided hope.
Adelaide Miarinjara is a medical entomologist and a postdoctoral fellow at Emory. Her focus? To unravel some of the mysteries surrounding bubonic plague and its transmission in her homeland of Madagascar.
A new study led by Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researcher Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that women and underrepresented groups experience higher rates of workplace mistreatment in academic medicine.
In the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2023 Health Care Heroes program, Linda A. McCauley, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, has been named the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and Boghuma K. Titanji has been named winner of the Health Care Innovator/Researcher category.
An Emory kidney transplant donor and recipient pair and their respective Emory Healthcare transplant surgeons were honored recently to raise awareness of the importance of living organ donation during Donate Life Month.
Through a generous gift from alumnus Sidney Yarbrough III and his wife, Rebecca, Emory acquired the sculpture “Resting Figure,” which pays tribute to the heroism of health care and university staff during the pandemic’s long course.
Emory College 2022 graduate Daniel Gebrekidan has been named a Thomas Pickering Fellow by the U.S. State Department. He credits his time at Emory with opening the path toward a diplomatic career as a way to serve the common good.
Historian Mariana Candido is writing a book focused on African women’s multiple roles in the early days of the slave trade. The work, supported by the Berlin Prize, grew out of one of her courses.
“Navigating My Identities Abroad” will provide advice and practical resources for students, faculty and staff traveling internationally who may face challenges, discrimination or threats to their physical and mental well-being due to their identity.
As an academic research institution, Emory’s faculty and staff conduct studies across every discipline, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards and the work they will support, plus highlights from some published research findings.
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice recently held an open house to highlight exemplary Emory interprofessional educational programs and introduce two new programs for the 2023–24 academic year.
Three Emory Healthcare nurses have been named to the Project NeLL (Nurse’s Electronic Learning Library) Scholars program, a one-year data science immersion for Emory Healthcare nurses.
Emory paleontologist Anthony Martin sums up a billion years of bioeroders — from microbes to dinosaurs to backyard squirrels in his new book “Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants and Fungi that Drill, Break and Scrape to Shape the Earth.”
The nine schools of Emory University held diploma ceremonies for their Class of 2023 graduates in conjunction with the university’s 178th Commencement. Read about their programs and watch the livestreams of all events.
Emory Healthcare is announcing that Jen Schuck has been named chief executive officer of Emory Decatur Hospital, Emory Hillandale Hospital and Emory Long-Term Acute Care, effective immediately.
Two Emory Healthcare nurses received top honors from the 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Celebrating Nurses program for going above and beyond their duties as exceptional nurses in their respective roles.
After an initial decline in diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease-related deaths, researchers from Emory and other institutions have noted a reversal of the trend, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Medicine.
Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is partnering with the Liz Blake Giving Fund and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children’s) to develop a scholarship program to expand and equip the workforce of pediatric mental health professionals.
In commemoration of Military Appreciation Month in May, the Atlanta Falcons announced a $225,101 donation to the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. The donation is intended to support the health care needs of veterans and service members who have served our country.
From “learn to say ‘I don’t know” to “make decisions with your patients not for your patients,” the School of Medicine’s diploma ceremony held much advice for the 128 members of its Class of 2023.
The 2023 Albert E. Levy Award for Excellence in Scientific Research went to Jennifer Strafford Stevens and Guido Silvestri in recognition of their groundbreaking research and advancement of scientific knowledge.
Meet the students — and projects — involved with The Hatchery’s Summer Incubator. From improving wellness to inclusive beauty products, these students are ready to change the world.
Oxytocin, the so-called “love hormone,” plays a key role in the process of how a young zebra finch learns to sing by imitating its elders, suggests a new study by Emory University neuroscientists.
Emory University faculty and staff were recognized with multiple awards in conjunction with the 2023 Commencement and school diploma ceremonies. See who was recognized for their contributions during the academic year.
In support of Emory’s enterprise-wide commitment to racial and social justice, the Office of the Provost will provide seed funding totaling more than $800,000 to help Emory faculty launch five new research projects.
More than three years after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared a public health emergency, the COVID-19 public health emergency officially winds to a close on May 11. But there are still questions about what this means for the pandemic moving forward.
Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing celebrated the accomplishments of its students Monday, May 8 during the school’s annual May Graduation and Pinning Ceremony.
Emory Healthcare and the Goizueta Institute @Emory Brain Health are joining forces with NeuroFlow, a behavioral health infrastructure company, to support and improve the delivery of psychiatric services for both patients and providers. The collaboration will also pilot a primary care suicide prevention program.
Exerting an impact in the classroom and beyond, Ira Schwartz has followed a “nonlinear” path to family and preventive medicine and global health, becoming a role model in medical education and more.
The new Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown, which will open for patients May 9, is designed to support a unique model of patient-centered, multidisciplinary cancer care integrated with innovative research to provide the best patient outcomes and a personalized patient experience.
Experts from the Rollins School of Public Health discuss what the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency means and what’s next for COVID-19 research.
Elaine Walker, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, is this year’s recipient of the Cuttino Award, recognizing a legacy of support and academic excellence that reverberates across the fields of psychology and mental illness research.
As an advocate for greater representation of gender, racial and ethnic minorities in the nursing field, Audric Donald is primed to be a change agent in health care.
Emory University will celebrate the Class of 2023 with ceremonies May 5-8 on the Atlanta and Oxford campuses. Learn more about Commencement events and how you can prepare for the festivities.
In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elsa Mekonnen reflected on her drive to help others as a nurse. So it’s no surprise that during her master’s in nursing program, she became known for putting scholarship and service into practice.
As Emory Healthcare CEO, Joon Sup Lee will be responsible for overseeing the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, with 11 hospitals, 250 provider locations and more than 24,000 employees. He joins Emory on July 1.
Jonathan Trapp, who is graduating as a doctor of ministry, has spent two decades working in emergency management and as a pastor. That bivocational experience allowed him to better serve his community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nicole Felix-Tovar is the student speaker at Emory University’s 2023 Commencement ceremony. A first-generation student, she’s found fulfillment and growth across multiple areas of campus.
Leveraging his experiences in rural Alabama and rural Mozambique, John Chancellor has committed his life to family medicine, rural primary care and mental health care while advocating for underserved groups.
A willingness to explore multiple interests in medicine, public health and computing allowed Emory senior David Goldberg to have an outsized impact on campus and beyond.
Emory University’s senior leadership recently recognized the efforts of the Emory COVID-19 screening team during the last two-and-a-half years of the pandemic.
Four Emory faculty members have been elected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and a leading center for independent policy research.
The Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.3 million to Emory University and partners to explore how to ethically employ artificial intelligence through the creation of the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network.
A team of Emory researchers reports developing successful techniques for overcoming the friction and misunderstanding that can arise when health care professionals with different roles come together to work with patients.
Master’s degree programs at the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing are the best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of graduate schools, released today.
The results of a promising surgical treatment for hemorrhagic strokes, led by researchers at Emory University School of Medicine since 2017, were announced Saturday in a late-breaking clinical trial presentation at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting in Los Angeles.
A gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation will expand the Seavey Clinic model for academic internal medicine to sites at Emory University Hospital Midtown and 1525 Clifton Road, funding 14 additional Rollins Distinguished Clinicians.
