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Dear
Member of the WSU School of Medicine Community: As
some of you are aware, WSU President Irvin Reid is in the process of
leading a strategic planning initiative to guide the university over the
course of the next five years. This initiative centers on four pillars
that highlight our preeminence in research and scholarship: the strength
of our urban experience, the importance of our global presence, the
implementation of new technologies and our continued commitment to
diversity. Concurrently,
I have initiated a strategic planning process for the School of
Medicine. While this plan will be specific to the needs of the school
and its diverse and specialized constituencies, it will keep at its core
the guiding principals President Reid has established for the
university. The initial program planning process will formulate and
frame strategic goals and objectives in our primary foci of research,
education and clinical care and will conclude with a business analysis
process evaluating needs for human, capital and financial resources. I
look forward to updating you on the progress of this important
initiative in the coming months and I hope to receive input from a great
many of you along the way. We each have our own vision of greatness for
the school. Working these individual ideas into one set of guiding
principles is a challenge I am looking forward to. I
have asked members of the school’s leadership team to chair committees
in our focus areas, and preliminary work is well underway. Our timeline
is roughly now through the summer, when we anticipate the release of a
guiding document that clearly addresses our three missions and places us
more closely to our goal of becoming the world's best medical school. Sincerely,
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