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Upcoming Activites:
AAHC International™ bringing together academic health center leaders in to exchange ideas, develop new programs, and promote a sense of a global community.
AAHC Inaugural Asia Pacific Meeting
February 26-27, 2009
Developing International Partnerships in Academic Medicine. AAHC International will be co-hosting an international meeting in Singapore. (Read More)
2009 International Forum
March 30-31, 2009
Global Finance, Political Change, and Academic Health Centers Worldwide. How will the global financial crisis impact the need to develop and grow the academic health center concept worldwide? What new opportunities are now in play? What new ideas are needed to succeed? Will political agendas and financial imperatives pose both unforeseen challenges and opportunities for the future?(Read More)
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
AAHC Spring International Forum
The Spring International Forum brings together a global who’s who in academic health center leadership. The International Forum was established to address the intersection of the global economy with the academic health center societal mission, and to inform and educate leaders from all economic sectors and regions of the globe about the critical role academic health centers play.(Read Meeting Highlights)