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Just as likely: University of Notre Dame, Charlotte Campus
That is my concern, we don't know what the long term plan is. Are we merging, being acquired, taken over, affiliating etc. There are still a lot of different ways this could play out.
Is Wake still collaborating with VT in neurobiology research? VT is expanding the research facilities at its med school. Will the schools be chasing the same dollars. Linking with Atrium may make it easier for Wake to tell VT "sorry, we don't need you any more."
Charlotte doctors can study opioids, childhood obesity, and syphyllis in W-S. W-S will always have cheap real estate which will make it more cost effective to keep a lot of programs there.
Wake gets new surgery tower at hospital campus and new eye center tower in innovation quarter. Research hub in Innovation quarter should explode.
I don't know where they are going to find room for it, but somehow they always manage to cram one more building on that site.
Does this hurt the WS Med School? Is there going to be pressure to take some of their top talent and move them to Charlotte?
Officials said construction would begin early next year and that the first students would be seated in 2024.
In a news conference, Atrium CEO Gene Woods described the new medical school campus in Charlotte as part of the company’s commitment to improve healthcare in the communities it serves, and he announced a $10M scholarship fund that would allow “our black and brown brothers and sisters” to pursue careers in health sciences.
He played a video featuring Mayor Vi Lyles, U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, county commission chairman George Dunlap and Gov. Roy Cooper heaping praise on Atrium and the medical school and predicting it would have a profound effect on health and the economy.
“This is a place where excellence lives and excellence is learned,” Woods said. He said “just seeing these artistic renderings gets me fired up.”