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Our Vision

A World-Class Patient-Centered Integrated Academic Medical Center

Our Core Values

  • excellence
  • respect
  • teamwork
  • integrity
  • caring

Our Mission

  • To serve
  • To teach
  • To discover

We are committed to making world-class contributions that place service to human health at the center of an academic culture devoted to excellence in research, patient care, and education.

Patient Care that is:

  • Patient-centered 
  • Collaborative
  • Safe
  • Best Practice
  • Ethical
  • Respectful of individual dignity
  • Based on standards of excellence
  • Focused on improvement of individual and system outcomes
  • Available to our extended community

Medical Education
Redesigning medical education by developing a new Curriculum for the 21st Century that is patient-centered and disease-focused based on “spiraling” topics to enhance the intellectual link between the classroom and patient care.

Research
We will bring together outstanding basic scientists and clinical researchers, to foster highly collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation, inspiring new ideas and discoveries; and translating scientific advances more swiftly into new ways of diagnosing and treating patients and preventing disease.