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The   Next   75  Years
 

A few generations troni now, we miglrr imagine the
grandchildren of today's entering medical students
looking b,ick at the history of Columbia University
Medical CA-ntcr from zooj to 2078, just as we look back today.
They might smile with nostalgia at the old-fashioned
photographs of today's PET scanners and laser technology, and
our impossibly out-of-date clothing. Will they also feel the
same sense of pride and wonder at the progress that has been
made from this day onward that we feel as we reflect on the firsr
75 years of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center- [insuring
that they do is a t,ask that falls to all of us.

While we celebrate the successes of 75 years of Columbia-
Presbv'tcrian Medical Center, we arc taking action that is as
revolutionary today as tlie birth of the Medical C'enter was in
1928. Wc are putting into action a powerful, comprehcnsi\c new-
strategic plan aimed at making Columbia's next era its finest yet.

The new plan for Columbia University Medical Center
represents the best and boldest ideas generated by a year's worth
 

of inspiration and deliberation with Columbia Universitj-'s
College of Physicians & Surgeons, the School of Dental and
Oral Surgery, the School of Nursing, the Mailman School of
Public Health, and with our Medical Center partner,
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

The plan sets a visionary course. It calls for decades of
growth and progress that will not only build on the legacy of
our Medical Center, but will transform it into an institution of
dazzlint; achievement and unparalleled leadership. It seeks to
build new bridges between departments, disciplines and
missions, revolutionizing the traditional, sometimes rigid
structures of academic medicine. Just as we once helped invent
the academic medical center, we are now reinventing it, breaking
down old "silos" that developed around specialties and subjects
and replacing; them with a vision of connection rather than
separation. The plan for Columbia Univcrsit)- Medical Center
sets the standard for innovation, new collaborative ventures, and
leadership in such cutting-edge areas as human genetics and