Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University

07/16/2025

Atlanta United released updated renderings and plans for the Emory Healthcare Studio, a first-of-its-kind content production facility in Major League Soccer currently under construction at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Training Ground.

🔗 About the Emory Healthcare Studio: https://links.emory.edu/1e4

07/10/2025

“Your Fantastic Mind,” the award-winning television partnership between Emory University and Georgia Public Broadcasting, has been recognized with four Southeast Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, bringing the show’s total to 15 Emmys since its 2019 debut. The series continues to receive national acclaim for its powerful storytelling and journalism focused on brain health and clinical innovation.

“Your Fantastic Mind,” the award-winning television partnership between Emory University and Georgia Public Broadcasting, has been recognized with four Southeast Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

07/10/2025

For more than 30 years, Emory’s Department of Human Genetics has brought together women with PKU and MSUD for a six-day experience known as Metabolic Camp. The program blends nutrition education, peer support and rigorous research.

Emory’s metabolic camp brings together women across age groups to offer a unique experience blending nutrition education, peer support and rigorous research, all with a dash of summer-camp fun.

07/09/2025

Emory Healthcare announced plans to unify its leadership under a more streamlined structure. Last week, Dr. Joon S. Lee, chief executive officer of Emory Healthcare, assumed 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.

🔗 Full story: https://links.emory.edu/1dO

07/09/2025

Emory Integrated Memory Care (IMC), an Atlanta-based primary care practice specializing in geriatric and dementia care, has been named an Edge Runner by the American Academy of Nursing. This designation honors nurse-led models of care that reduce costs, improve health care quality, advance health equity and enhance patient satisfaction.

Emory Integrated Memory Care has been named an Edge Runner by the American Academy of Nursing, honoring exceptional nurse-led models of care.

07/09/2025

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Hospital participated in a nationwide four-day, large-scale patient movement exercise that involved more than 50 international, federal, state and local collaborators, designed to test and validate the nation’s ability to move patients with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers.

Children’s Arthur M. Blank Hospital and Emory University Hospital, a part of Emory Healthcare, are a combined Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center and one of 13 in the county with specialized training and capabilities to care for patients with highly contagious infectious diseases.

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.

07/08/2025

Emory University has been selected by the Parkinson’s Foundation to receive a grant to establish a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship, launching in 2026. The fellowship will be based at Emory Healthcare’s Movement Disorders Clinic, located within the Emory Brain Health Center, a designated Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence.

Emory University has been selected by the Parkinson’s Foundation to receive a grant to establish a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship, launching in 2026.

07/08/2025

Two immunologists, Jeffrey V. Ravetch and Christopher C. Goodnow, whose groundbreaking research has revealed new insights into the human immune system and paved the way for novel disease treatments have been announced as the 2025 recipients of Emory University’s Max Cooper Prize in Immunology.

07/08/2025

Dr. Carlos del Rio — 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.

🔗 Full story: https://links.emory.edu/1dL

06/19/2025

Shengpu Tang, now an assistant professor at Emory University, led the first hospital deployment of AI-guided protocols to help reduce infection risks from C. difficile. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study showed that AI-supported alerts contributed to more targeted antibiotic use without compromising patient safety. Tang aims to continue advancing AI applications in healthcare decision-making at Emory.

🔗 New AI Tool: https://links.emory.edu/1dd

06/18/2025

This June, the Veterans Program marks 10 years of providing no-cost, evidence-based mental health care to post-9/11 veterans and service members. EHVP has supported over 3,500 participants in healing from PTSD.

🔗 Emory Healthcare Veterans Program marks 10 years: links.emory.edu/1d8

06/18/2025

Cancer esearchers are using AI to combine CT scans, tissue images, & genetic data to better assess head and neck cancer risks. Studies show AI improves predictions of patient outcomes and treatment benefits, but experts urge caution before clinical use.

🔗 AI and Cancer: links.emory.edu/1da