The 21st Century Academic Health Center Mission

The traditional academic health center missions—education, research, patient care, and community service—are challenged by multiple forces.

To respond successfully, academic health centers must take advantage of their unique capability of garnering the synergy that results from optimally aligning each mission area with the others, such that each one supports and enhances its counterparts. The goal should be the development of an unparalleled real-time learning health system.

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AAHC Aligned Institutional Mission (AIM) Program™

The AIM Program was created to help member organizations set and meet strategic goals; measure organizational alignment; and benchmark successes by providing continuous and tailored consultant services and guidance of experienced academic health center leaders.

Publications

• The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare’s Changing Landscape
• Curating Medical and Scientific Knowledge in the Information Age: A role for academic health centers?
• Medical Education Must Move from the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• The Physician in the 21st Century
• Academic Health Center Transformation: Future Shock or Future Success?
• Resource Allocation in Academic Health Centers: Creating Common Metrics
• Toward a Virtuous Cycle: the changing face of academic health centers
• The Academic Health Center: Evolving Organizational Models
• Health Reform and Academic Health Centers: Commentary on an Evolving Paradigm
• The Academic Health Center in a Disrupted World
• A Case for Change: Disruption in Academic Medicine
• Saving Academic Medicine from Obsolescence
• The Compelling Value Proposition of Academic Health Centers
• The Promise and Power of Academic Health Centers

Presentations

• The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: Meeting the challenges of healthcare’s changing landscape
• Vision & Strategy for the Future of Academic Health Centers & the Social Determinants of Health