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The global academic healthcare community is becoming more interconnected with much to learn from and offer to each other.  As science, education, health care, and the economy continue to evolve, health professions schools and their related hospitals and health systems are increasingly realizing the need to better align their functions within the academic health center.  This call for alignment offers the important opportunity for academic health centers to work together by:

• Becoming agents of change embodying the ideals of enhancing health and well-being worldwide
• Strengthening the key mission areas of education, patient care, and research
• Promoting best practices, and
• Fostering international partnerships.

Vision for AAHC International™

There is now a critical junction of need and opportunity for academic health centers to work in partnership worldwide, and, in doing so, be among the critical forces shaping the 21st century.  AAHC International™ seeks to mobilize and speak on the behalf of their collective strengths and resources to ensure that these institutions have a voice in international matters affecting health, research, and the economy, and, in so doing, help foster the concept of an international academic health center community driven by the ideal of improving the public good. 

As an organized group, academic health centers can address pressing needs in public health, patient care, health professions education, and biomedical and clinical research.  In addition, AAHC International™ can work with institutions to develop the organizational and management expertise that captures the power of the combined missions of the academic health center.

Governance

An International Coordinating Committee has been formed to help guide the evolution of AAHC International™.  It is anticipated that the committee will expand as the program grows.  The members are: 

Larry J. Shapiro, MD
President, Washington University Medical Center
Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, Washington University
Chair

Victor J. Dzau, MD
Chancellor for Health Affairs
President and CEO, Duke University Health System, Duke University

Pascal J. Goldschmidt, MD
Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs
Dean, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

Edward Hillhouse, BSC, MBBS, PhD
Dean, Faculty of Health and Medicine,
University of Leeds

Stephen Smith, DSc, FmedSci
Principal, Faculty of Medicine, CEO, Imperial College London
Chief Executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust,

John Wong, MBBS
Dean, School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

 

Upcoming Events

AAHC International Forum
March 28-29, 2010, Washington, DC

Inaugural Central & South America Meeting
May 20-21, 2010, Sao Paulo

Recent Events

AAHC International Partner Symposium, The World Health Summit
October 15-18, 2009, Berlin

The Future of Academic Health Centers in Europe
April 26-27, 2009, Amsterdam

AAHC International Forum
March 30-31, 2009, Washington, DC

Developing International Partnerships in Academic Medicine
February 26-27, 2009, Singapore

Members

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Imperial College
Maastricht University Medical Center
McGill University Health Center
National Taiwan University
National University of Singapore
The Australian National University
The University of Manchester
The University of New South Wales
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
University of Amsterdam
University of Milan-Bicocca
University of Oxford

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