Improvements in health do not occur in isolation: they happen most readily when the clinical
and biomedical intersect, or when efficacy and effectiveness come together, as described in …

Dramatic changes in the provision of US health care loom large on the horizon. Maintaining
the missions of education, research, and clinical service for Academic Health Centers …

Academic health centers (AHCs) must change dramatically to meet the changing needs of
patients and society, but how to do this remains unclear. The purpose of this supplement is …

Despite their divergent missions, academic health centers (AHCs) and community health
centers (CHCs) are natural partners. This is becoming more obvious as national attention is …

The authors review why the gulf between clinical medicine and public health has existed
since the first schools of public health were established in 1916. They emphasize that …

Spurred by a rapidly changing health care landscape, manyacademichealthsystemsarereconfiguri…
beyondindividualpatientcaretopopulation-specificmanagement. During this time of …

National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding has contributed to improvements in the health of
the nation, but the pace of progress, particularly in the war on cancer, has been frustratingly …

Although academic health centers (AHCs) represent a unique combination of teaching,
research, and patient care, it is no longer enough to say that their missions are solely …

Academic health centers (AHCs) have opportunities to advance the agenda of US health
care reform by tying the needs of populations to the AHCs' missions and areas of expertise …

Background Changes in health care delivery and funding have placed strains on academic
medical centers' ability to meet their multiple missions. To gain insight into how this new …