March 2018 Vol. 13, Issue 1

Emory Robert W. Woodruff Commencement 2018 Foundation Makes ichael Dubin, co-founder Groundbreaking Gift and CEO ofM Dollar Shave to Transform 21st Club, will deliver the keynote address at Century Health Care ’s he Robert W. Woodruff Foundation has pledged $400 173rd commencement million to find new cures for disease, develop innovative ceremony Monday, May patient care models and improve lives while enhancing 14. He also will receive Tthe health of individuals in need. an honorary Doctor of Business degree. The transformational gift, the largest ever received by Emory University, will change the lives of patients and their families. Dubin, an Emory Through a new Tower on Peachtree alumnus, is a creative Street in Midtown and a new Health Sciences Research Building entrepreneur, executive (Continued on page 8) and trailblazing brand- builder. Under Dubin’s Michael Dubin, co-founder and CEO of Dollar Shave Club and Emory alumnus, to leadership, Dollar Shave deliver Emory Commencement address Club revolutionized the razor industry, growing to become the second-largest men’s and Dream razor seller in the U.S. The company was acquired by Unilever in July of 2016 for $1 billion in one of the largest deals in ecommerce history. Announce Partnership

He has been recognized by Ernst & Young as the 2016 Expansion Entrepreneur of the Year, in Fortune’s 40 Under 40, and in Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative People in Advertising. mory Healthcare and the Atlanta Dream recently Dubin, who received a BA degree in history from Emory, announced a designation was the keynote speaker at the first Emory Entrepreneurship ofE Emory as the Official Team (Continued on page 3) Healthcare and Official Sports Medicine Provider for Atlanta’s Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) team. The Atlanta Dream was established in 2007.

The partnership provides the Atlanta Dream with access to Emory’s world class Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics, and Spine Center physicians and all of Emory Healthcare. The partnership also provides the Dream access to Emory’s sports science (Continued on page 9) Community Update | Page 2

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Emory Commencement 2018

(Continued from cover) Summit, organized and hosted by Goizueta Business School in • Gay J. McDougall, human rights lawyer who confronted April, 2015. apartheid in South Africa. McDougall was one of fi ve international members of the South African Dubin began his career as an NBC page, followed by an editorial governmental body established through the multi-party stint at MSNBC. He then transitioned to digital marketing, negotiations to set policy and administer the country’s developing custom content for brand advertisers including fi rst democratic, non-racial elections in 1994, resulting Gatorade and video game company EA, and on behalf of in the election of President Nelson Mandela and the properties such as Time Inc. and SI.com. Just before founding transition from apartheid. McDougall served as the fi rst Dollar Shave Club, Dubin worked in the video seeding space, United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues creating and driving engagement to branded content made by from 2005 through 2011. companies including LG, Ford, Capital One and Taco Bell.

Dubin is passionate about content, comedy and entertainment and studied improv and sketch comedy for more than eight years at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. Traffi c Alert

Honorary degree recipients mory’s Commencement is on Monday, May 14. Expect traffi c Emory will confer honorary degrees to three other individuals at E congestion around campus that the commencement ceremony: morning.

• Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Food Bank. Bolling led the organization’s distribution of more than half a billion pounds of food and grocery products through a network of more than 600 local and regional partner nonprofi t organizations that feed the hungry across 29 counties. As a charter member of Feeding America, the national network of food banks, Bolling was instrumental in the start-up of food banks across the celebrating country. years shop. donate. volunteer. • Carmen de Lavallade, artist of dance, theater, fi lm and 7 television. Her dance career includes having ballets Two upscale thrift stores created for her by Lester Horton, Geoff rey Holder, Alvin Ailey, Glen Tetley, John Butler and Agnes de Mille. De benefiting homeless pets Lavallade was the principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera and a guest artist with the American Ballet Th eater. She has choreographed for the Dance Th eatre of Harlem, Philadanco, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Th eater and the Metropolitan Opera.

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www.cliftoncommunitypartnership.org Community update | page 4 Campus Life Center Construction Continues on Pace ith extensive site preparation and foundation work large concrete box that was buried just steps away from the DUC in place, the construction of Emory’s new Campus terraces in 1986. Life Center (CLC) continues on pace this Spring. Th e Winstallation of massive steel beams will provide the architectural Intended to honor the 150th anniversary of Emory’s founding, the bones of the new facility to be located on the interior of time capsule was fi lled with 150 items, believed to include cans of Emory’s campus near the Woodruff Physical Education Center Classic Coke, Cherry Coke and Diet Coke; a copy of a speech by (WoodPEC). then-President James T. Laney titled “Th e Education of the Heart”; a Chemistry 141 exam; a videotape of a Rathskellar performance; Work began last summer on the new CLC, which is slated to open and a signed photograph of Emory’s fi rst intercollegiate basketball in May 2019. team.

Developed in partnership between Emory’s divisions of Campus Since the original plan was to unearth the time capsule in 50 years Life and Campus Services, plans for the new structure were on Emory’s 200th anniversary, that intention will be honored. Now driven by growing space needs, a desire for more fl exible and in storage, the capsule will eventually be replanted in a campus effi cient dining services, and the need for more room for student location at a later date. organizations and gathering spaces. Moving forward, spectators can expect to see more concrete pours Once completed, the three-story building will cover nearly this Spring and the continual rise of steel beams and columns as 115,000 square feet, featuring student lounges and recreational the building grows, fl oor by fl oor. spaces, a campus restaurant with approximately 800 seats, and a nearly 1,600-seat multipurpose room. All the steel should be in place by mid-spring and then work will begin on skin of the building — block walls and window One of the more unusual challenges faced by construction crews assemblies — by September. has been removing Emory’s Sesquicentennial Time Capsule, a

www.cliftoncommunitypartnership.org Community Update | Page 5 Emory Ranks 7th on Forbes List of America’s Best Employers for Diversity mory University is ranked 7th on Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity. Emory was the top ranked employer in Georgia and second only to Harvard UniversityE (No. 5) among universities.

Other organizations in the top 10 included Northern Trust, Smithsonian Institution, Levy, Inuit and Principal Financial Group.

Forbes worked with research firm Statista to compile the list of 250 of the best employers for diversity in America. Statista surveyed 30,000 U.S. employees in August 2017 to inform the list, asking questions about diversity, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and disability. Responses among underrepresented ethnic minorities, women and people aged 50 and older received greater weight in the ranking.

Other factors included the gender split of companies’ management teams and boards, and whether a company proactively communicates about diversity. Only companies with 1,000 or more workers were eligible to qualify for the list.

www.cliftoncommunitypartnership.org Community Update | Page 6 Campus Life Leader Named President of Arcadia University jay Nair, Emory’s senior Avice president and dean of Campus Life for more than five years, will serve as the next president of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania effective April 2.

Prior to joining Emory, Nair held executive leadership positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the University of Virginia. A Philadelphia native, he earned his bachelor’s degree and PhD from Pennsylvania State University. He will be the first person of color to serve Ajay Nair (second from left), Emory’s senior vice president and dean of Campus Life, poses with students. Nair as Arcadia’s president and one of the first will leave Emory to become the next president of Arcadia University. American-born university presidents of Indian descent nationwide, according to Student Success Programs and Services; creating the Emory Commission on Arcadia. Parent and Alumni Relations; Belonging Racial and Social Justice. and Community Justice; Student Since his arrival in 2012, Nair has Involvement, Leadership and Transitions He also provided leadership for the reshaped Campus Life. Under his (SILT); Racial and Cultural Engagement development and completion of several leadership and it has become a national (RACE); and the Respect Program. living and learning spaces, including pacesetter on issues of social justice. the first-year residential village, Nair provided strategic direction construction of a new Campus Life As senior vice president and dean on cultivating an ethically engaged Pavilion and a new Campus Life Center, of Campus Life, Nair led more than community; co-chaired the task force renovations to athletic fields and several 20 departments, from intercollegiate that resulted in the development of dining and student union facilities. athletics and the Greek experience to Emory’s nationally recognized open Student Health Services, Residence Life expression policy and educational and more. program to foster debate, dialogue and Campus Life offices and initiatives deliberation; and was instrumental in created under his leadership include

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Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

(Continued from cover) be a laboratory-focused facility housing faculty on Emory’s Druid Hills campus, the Robert and staff who are charged with developing a W. Woodruff Foundation’s generosity will help pipeline of cures, interventions and prevention advance new solutions for some of medicine’s methods, all aimed at improving the health of most challenging diagnoses, even changing patients. Research teams working in the state- the meaning of what it means to receive those of-the-art facility will partner with Emory diagnoses for future generations. colleagues to target five emerging priorities in 21st century medicine: brain health; cancer; heart For many decades — at each phase of Emory’s and vascular health; immunology and infectious growth and development — the Robert W. diseases; and radiology, biomedical engineering, Woodruff Foundation has served as the and imaging sciences. In a continuing university’s chief advocate and partner, partnership with Children’s Healthcare of transforming health care, supporting education Atlanta, Emory researchers in the new building and making greater quality of life possible for also will investigate childhood diseases, focusing patients who pass through Emory’s doors. on discoveries that advance treatments and cures for our youngest patients. The Winship Cancer Institute Tower in Midtown will provide urgently needed infusion facilities, operating rooms, clinical Robert W. Woodruff, the late legendary leader of The Coca-Cola examination rooms, spaces for rehabilitation, imaging technology Company, became a major benefactor of Emory beginning in and clinical research capacity. In April 2017, Winship Cancer 1937. In 1979, he and his brother, George Woodruff, gave Emory Institute became Georgia’s first and only National Cancer Institute the then-record sum of $105 million, the first nine-figure gift to (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, joining an elite an institution of higher education, empowering the university group, the top 1 percent of cancer centers nationwide. to create, preserve, teach and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. The new Health Sciences Research Building will be located adjacent to a similar research building on Haygood Road. It will

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Emory Healthcare and Atlanta Dream

(Continued from cover) Emory Sports Medicine Center, a division of Emory Orthopaedics research and performance measurement expertise at the new & Spine Center, comprises 14 sports medicine physicians Emory Sports Medicine Complex in Brookhaven. throughout the Metro Atlanta area and is supported by athletic trainers and therapists helping to care for the most professional, As part of the partnership, Emory Healthcare will also provide elite, and collegiate athletes in Georgia, including the Atlanta the Dream with a team doctor and full-time athletic trainer. Hawks, Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Braves. Emory Healthcare and Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center is one of the nation’s leading academic medical Emory Healthcare, with more than 16,000 employees, is the most centers. The Atlanta Dream, which enters its 11th season in 2018, comprehensive, academic health system in Georgia. System-wide, will play its home games in McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia it has 1,976 licensed patient beds. Emory Healthcare is the only Tech campus. Atlanta has qualified for the playoffs seven times, health system in Georgia with three Magnet-designated hospitals, winning conference titles in 2013, 2011 and 2010. Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Emory University Hospital, and Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital

www.cliftoncommunitypartnership.org Community update | page 10 Emory Healthcare Provided $73.5 Million in Charity Care in 2016-2017 n fi scal year 2017, Emory Healthcare provided $73.5 to care, advance medical knowledge, and relieve or reduce million in charity care, which includes care for patients dependence on taxpayer-funded community eff orts. with no health insurance, not even Medicare or Medicaid, andI no resources of their own. Th e term also includes Th e charity care report, Critical Contributions in Care, covers catastrophic care for patients who may have some coverage community impact of the entire Woodruff Health Sciences but for whom health care bills are so large that paying them Center, which includes not only Emory Healthcare, but would be life-shattering. Over this same time, Emory medical Emory School of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health, faculty also provided $24.6 million in unreimbursed care at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Yerkes National Grady Memorial Hospital. Primate Research Center, and Winship Cancer Institute, as well as a large presence at Grady, Atlanta VA Medical Center, In addition to such care, Emory last year provided another and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. $70.4 million in services to help improve access

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