As one of only nine students admitted to the PhD pathway of the highly specialized, accelerated doctoral program, Tuan Vinh will work to discover biomarkers to enable earlier diagnosis and treatments of diseases.
Carlos del Rio, MD, a longtime Emory faculty member, infectious diseases physician, HIV/AIDS researcher, collaborative colleague, mentor and global health leader, has been honored with the prestigious 2024 James Shepherd Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Hospital Association.
International students who graduated with the Class of 2025 represented more than 60 countries. See photos from the event at the Miller Ward Alumni House, which recognized the achievements of graduating students.
Jeffrey V. Ravetch and Christopher C. Goodnow were selected to receive the award for their groundbreaking research that has revealed new insights into the human immune system and paved the way for novel disease treatments.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Hospital participated in a nationwide four-day, large-scale patient movement exercise designed to test and validate the nation’s ability to move patients with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers.
Emory alum Amanda J. Wilson will return to campus as associate university librarian and director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, effective Aug. 25. She comes to this role from the National Library of Medicine.
In an effort to unify its leadership under a more streamlined structure, Joon S. Lee, MD, CEO of Emory Healthcare, will assume the expanded, integrated roles of executive vice president for health affairs of Emory University and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors, along with continuing his current position of CEO of Emory Healthcare.