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People Working Together to Achieve Greatness
Peter G. Traber, M.D. Collaboration is our greatest tool in finding the answers for today's medical and scientific puzzles. Physicians, scientists and trainees have learned over the years that collaboration can occur quite easily and strengthen everyone. Sometimes successful collaborations stem from scientific colleagues whose research pathways merge in their investigations. Other times, it is members of our surrounding community who give of their energies and resources to help us gain more ground in the quest to alleviate human suffering. In every case, it is about people joining together in search of a common solution. This issue of Solutions features many excellent examples. In "Putting the Pieces Together," we learn how BCM faculty and staff from diverse clinical backgrounds helped a patient find answers to her rare and complex medical condition. The new Texas Adult Congenital Heart Center, featured in "When Baby Heart Patients Grow Up," offers a continuum of care for pediatric heart patients as they enter adulthood through collaborative efforts by BCM, Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. The new Women's Comprehensive Health Center featured in "A Perfect Fit" also demonstrates the importance of teamwork in addressing the unique health needs of women. Our BCM students joined forces with a diverse group of sponsors to present a special community health day that provided health assessments to residents in a disadvantaged community and helped address "A Neighborhood Need." Another story, "The Highest Honor" tells how BCM's benefactors support academic excellence by sponsoring endowed chairs and professorships. "The Ambassadors" provides insight into the incredible accomplishments of The Partnership of Baylor College of Medicine. This generosity of spirit is mirrored in "BRASS Connections Help Students Soar," an article about Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists, a volunteer organization that helps fund scholarships and training for the best and brightest young scientists in The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Perhaps the most unconventional collaboration featured in this issue is how the family of the late A. Earl Mgebroff, M.D., BCM class of 1953, and BCM will work together to educate and inspire others through a phenomenal collection of letters penned by famous physicians and scientists throughout U.S. history that the family donated to the College. The letters, including those from physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, illustrate the importance of collaboration throughout the history of medicine and what we can continue to learn from those great minds. These and the other stories found in every issue of Solutions strive to highlight how Baylor College of Medicine is working to discover the answers to unanswered questions and make the world a better place. Peter G. Traber, M.D. |
Patient CarePutting the Pieces Together: Megan's Story When Baby Heart Patients Grow Up Saying Goodnight to Sleeping Pills ResearchFrom a Sister's Illness... A Cancer Crusade EducationCommunity ServiceAlumni & DevelopmentBRASS Connections Help Students Soar College NewsPhysician Hall of Fame: College Receives One-of-a-Kind Signature Collection
People Working Together to Achieve Greatness
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Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2007 |
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