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MSM/Grady: Collaboration Has Major

Impact on Acute Surgical Care/Trauma

in Atlanta

Ed Childs, M.D. joined Morehouse Healthcare practice in January of 2012 with a specific purpose
top of mind. A steward of service for most of his professional career, Dr. Childs was attracted to
MSM’s esteemed reputation and role in leading the creation of health equity. Childs brought with
him a deep passion to drive the social mission of MSM and skills to equip and sustain future
generations of healthcare professionals that share the school’s commitment to the mission.

“When you come to a place like Morehouse School of Medicine, you commit to embarking on a
social mission,” says Dr. Childs, chair of the Department of Surgery and professor for Trauma &
Critical Care. “You know that the social mission is part of the culture.”

Dr. Childs is dedicated to providing students the opportunity to gain the skills and surgical
knowledge that positions them to be successful surgeons but he also takes it a step further. Childs’
teaching philosophy includes the belief that it takes more than imparting knowledge to students
to really make a difference in shaping them as future healthcare professionals; he believes a critical
component of his work as a professor is to teach students the importance of compassion so that
they can contribute to creating health equity before and after they graduate.

Grady Hospital, MSM’s primary hospital partner, is a safety net hospital located in downtown
Atlanta. All individuals who seek service from the hospital will receive the best healthcare the
hospital offers regardless of their status or ability to pay. Grady is where Dr. Childs believes
students can best learn how to develop a passion for treating all people with the highest level of
care. Students are taught the importance of compassion from the first year of medical school at
MSM through the final year of their matriculation.

Educating all students who are part of the Morehouse Healthcare system advances and extends the
social mission of MSM beyond its doors and into the community where it can make a difference.
MSM leaders like Dr. Childs seek to expose students to as many opportunities as possible to
experience a community-centric health approach and platforms to develop compassion. This is all
with the hope of reciprocity; MSM-trained surgeons who are continuously fueling the MSM social
mission.

Clinical care and applied focus on expansive research, specific to the areas that disproportionately
affect minorities, are also ways in which Dr. Childs, the teaching staff, fellows and students
collectively contribute to the social mission at MSM.
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