Emory University Campus

Emory's main campus consists of 631 acres that lie along the Clifton Corridor in a suburban area 15 minutes from downtown. Emory University includes Emory College, Oxford College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, and professional schools of medicine, public health, business, law, and theology. The total student body, including the Health Sciences Center, exceeds 10,000 with 2,500 faculty. At $4.3 billion, Emory's endowment ranks eighth in the country.

Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center

The Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center encompasses those components of Emory University responsible for patient care, education of health professionals, research affecting health and illness, and policies for prevention and treatment of disease. The center's namesake, the legendary leader of the Coca-Cola Company, was a man whose vision and generosity left a lasting imprint on Emory and the city of Atlanta.

The Health Sciences Center is comprised of:

• Emory University School of Medicine
• Rollins School of Public Health
• Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
• Yerkes Regional Primate Center

Emory University is the largest employer in DeKalb County and the third largest private employer in the Atlanta area. With over a billion dollar operating budget, the Health Sciences Center's annual economic impact on metro Atlanta is estimated at more than $2.8 billion. Emory physicians provide a major part of the indigent and public health care in the region, including care through Grady Memorial Hospital and its community clinics. The Health Sciences Center is becoming a major player in promoting technology transfer, the translation of laboratory discoveries into health care applications. In collaboration with Georgia Tech, Emory has developed a biotechnology center, a start-up business incubator that will nurture promising technologies until they are strong enough to become stand-alone businesses. The center expects to generate 23 start-up companies over the next 10 years, generating 4,000 new jobs for the state and an annual payroll of $364 million. The Health Sciences Center is a member of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), a partnership of business, research universities, and state government that fosters economic development in the state. Through the GRA, the state - which led the nation in the growth of technology jobs from 1990 to 1996 - is increasingly committed to investing in university biomedical research, especially at Emory.

Emory University School of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine was founded in 1915 when Atlanta Medical School joined Emory College. In 1929 Emory formalized a teaching program for resident physicians and began operation of the medical programs at Grady Memorial Hospital. In 1944 Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital became part of the University (now Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University). In 1946 Emory aligned with the local Veterans Administration hospital and took on the supervision of Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital (now the Atlanta VA Medical Center).

The School of Medicine in numbers:

• The school receives approximately 60 applications for each of its 111 first-year medical student positions
• The school received $248 million in research funding in 2002-2003 (ranking it 21st among US medical schools and second in terms of grown in NIH funding)
• Faculty include 1,243 members in basic science and clinical departments and 1,250 volunteer members
• More than 2 million patient encounters annually
• Emory's 4,780 medical school alumni and 6,910 residency alumni make up approximately one-fourth of the physicians practicing in Georgia

Rollins School of Public Health

The Rollins School is a leader in interdisciplinary studies and offers dual-degree programs with the schools of medicine, nursing, business, and law. Master's degrees also are available with a concentration in clinical research. Through partnerships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Carter Center, the American Cancer Society, CARE, the Arthritis Foundation, and state and local public health agencies and in its role as a center for international health research and training, the Rollins School helps make Atlanta the public health capital of the world.

Yerkes Regional Primate Center

One of the oldest and largest of the scientific institutes in the United States, Yerkes is dedicated to biomedical and behavioral research with nonhuman primates. Supported by $23.2 million in research funding, the program involves about 2,730 monkeys and apes representing 11 species, including rhesus macaques, baboons, and chimpanzees. All of Yerkes' gorillas and baboons and many of its orangutans have been donated to zoological parks. Yerkes is home to the Emory Vaccine Research Centerwhich brings together some of the nation's most respected immunologists and virologists, furthering the development of new vaccines and fostering communication among nearly 100 Emory researchers studying AIDS.