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“The Keck School of Medicine in the 21st Century will be characterized
by creative leadership, discovery, innovation, imagination and partnerships.
Success will be a magnet for the very best faculty and students,
and will stimulate increased support from the private and public
sectors.”
–Summary of Strategic Initiatives, November 2000
In November 2000, the Keck School of Medicine published an ambitious
Strategic Plan for the new millennium.
Led by Ronald Smith, M.D., chair of ophthalmology, a task force
of 12 faculty leaders developed the plan in consensus with Keck
School faculty, and with essential feedback from staff, University
leadership and the Keck School’s distinguished Board
of Overseers.
The document, an important achievement in itself, serves as the
definitive road map for the future of the Keck School, helping school
leaders to maintain a steady course for the School’s transformation
into one of the nation’s top-ranked medical schools. The goals
and priorities outlined in the plan have already been used to measure
the progress of the School’s success.
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The central vision of the Keck School of Medicine’s strategic
plan is that the Keck School “will rank among the top private
research medical schools. This will be achieved through groundbreaking
discoveries in basic science and clinical research targeted to prevent
and relieve human suffering and enrich the human mind and spirit.”
The Strategic Plan will help the Keck School leadership maintain
a steady course and vision for the School’s transformation
into a top research medical school.
Following the $110 million gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation
to the School in 1999, the plan’s goals were significantly
ramped up to meet the Foundation’s charge to become a top-ranked
medical school in 10 years.
It was determined that with an ambitious 15 percent compounded
growth in research funding, it would be possible for the Keck School
to move up to the top 10. But to accomplish 15 percent growth requires
a significant increase in research space and additional faculty
members. The School’s financial projections also were revamped
to reflect the growth required to achieve the stated goals.
Plan Highlights
- Plan and build four new research buildings totaling 585,000
square feet of research space: a neurogenetic institute, a cancer
research tower, a heart and transplantation biology institute
and a biosciences research center.
- Recruit 135 new faculty members, including nationally recognized
leaders as chairs in pediatrics, psychiatry, anesthesiology and
molecular microbiology and immunology.
- Raise $1 billion over the next 10 years.
- Develop a Biomedical Research Park adjacent to the Health Sciences
Campus.
- Increase scholarship endowment to $30 million.
- Improve the effectiveness of the Office of Technology Transfer.
- Expand and support interdisciplinary faculty collaborations
among institutes, campuses and hospitals
- The major research priorities include:
- Neurogenetics
- Genetics
- Cancer
- Transplantation and cardiovascular disease
- Metabolic disease (liver and diabetes research programs)
- Children’s and Women’s health
- Infectious disease
When the 2000 Strategic Plan was introduced many elements were
already being achieved, including the groundbreaking on the first
of four research buildings outlined in the plan, the recruitment
of outstanding department chairs of pediatrics and anesthesiology,
and many others.
The Keck
School’s Board of Overseers rapidly engaged in the revised
Strategic Plan and has continued to invest time and offer counsel
on how the Keck School can become a truly great medical school.
This group of Los Angeles business leaders, philanthropists and
civic icons lends an impressive degree of credibility to the School.
The School’s upward momentum has been marked over the last
decade. The Strategic Plan provides a clear vision for its continued
success.
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