The University of Toledo

At his second biannual State of the Health Science Campus Address Friday, Nov. 20, Dr. Jeffrey P. Gold, provost and executive vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine, said the campus and the clinical enterprise is strong and seeing continuous improvement.

During his recent address, Dr. Jeffrey Gold talked about the continued progress made in education, research and patient care on Health Science Campus.

Gold recognized the ongoing progress made in the areas of education, research and patient care, even in the face of significant external challenges.

“We strive to be a distinctive organization on the academic side, on the physician practice side, and on the clinical side,” he said. “We have continued to build more structure and better communication in all areas despite the hardships in the current economy.”

Gold also laid out aspirational goals for the academic health center such as the continued globalization of scholarship and economic development programs, a more all-encompassing embodiment of the mission, vision and values of the University, and the need to transition from the ownership of knowledge to the application of knowledge.

“You and I and everyone else must own the culture of this academic health center,” Gold said. “We must talk and walk and live this culture here. We must embrace the present and look forward to the future with pride. We have to control our future with vision, strategy and dreams.”

Also emphasized in the address was an appreciation for what Gold called the great amount of hard work being done on the part of the staff, faculty, residents, students and others who have helped sustain and continually improve the state of academic health science centers at the University.

“Times are challenging, but our people are doing great things,” Gold said after the address. “With their hard work and our combined resolve to make it through with our eyes never veering from our mission, I think we’re poised to become one of the best academic health centers in the nation.”

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