Emory residents Deep Shah, MD; Cameron Body, MD; Richard Ramonell, MD; and Jancy Mathew, MD describe their day-to-day lives as residents in Emory’s internal medicine residency program. “There are a few things I feel make a good, effective…
The primary care residency track, within the J. Willis Hurst Residency program at Emory University, is designed to produce outstanding general internists who are preparing for a professional career in primary care clinical practice, as clinician-educators, or…
What is unique about residency training at Grady Memorial Hospital? Grady Memorial Hospital is a unique training institution that attracts many residents to Emory. Medicine residents choose to train at Emory for the opportunity to provide…
Working at Grady Memorial Hospital enables Assistant Professor of Medicine Maura George, MD (Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics) to pursue two passions–caring for the underserved and teaching. Dr. George helped develop the Social Medicine program at Emory University…
For 16 years, Leon L. Haley, Jr., MD, MHSA – an associate professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine – served as chief of emergency medicine and deputy senior vice president of medical…
Luella Klein, MD is credited with bringing maternal-fetal medicine to Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Klein—who served on the Emory Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics faculty from 1965 to 2013—devoted her…
In World War I, U.S. Army Surgeon General William Gorgas asked for medical professionals to volunteer for the war effort, and doctors and nurses from Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital answered…
While the Emory-Grady partnership provided, in one administrator’s words, “abundant clinical material,” Emory University School of Medicine struggled mightily for decades to overcome economic obstacles—namely, the inability to pay clinical faculty. By 1940, in the wake…
Grady Memorial Hospital opened its doors on June 2, 1892. The hospital—named for former Atlanta Constitution managing editor and “New South” proponent Henry W. Grady—comprised 110 beds, an operating room, and an amphitheater for students…
Wesley Memorial Hospital was established by the United Methodist Church in 1904. Chartered with 50 beds and a staff of only 34 doctors, the hospital operated out of a renovated antebellum mansion at the intersection…