A message from the president and dean

Welcome to the first edition of our Geisinger College of Health Sciences magazine. In these pages, we’ll introduce you to the overarching academic umbrella organization for Geisinger that we launched in September. We brought together the innovative research enterprise and additional health profession education and training programs at Geisinger with our thriving medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth. The synergy such union creates is already reaping benefits — particularly for learners and patients.

Our vision for our academic enterprise is one that is accountable to community and is aligned with today’s needs while leading future innovations. Geisinger’s rich research tradition, coupled with a curriculum informed by our system’s unique strengths in health system science and value-based care, is the perfect environment for learners to understand and practice medicine that prizes wellness. In short, we celebrate medicine meant to make better health easier.

Friends of our School of Medicine will be energized and proud of how the seeds our community planted back in 2007 have grown. Then we dreamt of our own medical school. Today that school is the cornerstone of an entire academic enterprise dedicated to putting its communities first.

Geisinger College brings Geisinger’s health professions education, research, and the entire continuum of medical education under one banner. We have begun an exciting journey — join us as it unfolds! We need you to help move us forward. Thank you for supporting us as we meet our missions together.

Julie Byerley, MD, President and Dean, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Geisinger