John M. Daly, Dean, School of Medicine

Pulmonary care, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, neurology and neuroscience are particularly important roles that we play in medical care in the community and in the region. I think entrepreneurialism is very important; it’s a way for the discoveries that the faculty are contributing to can get out to the world.

Our alumni are dedicated people. They remember the School of Medicine warmly, they recognize the role it’s played in their careers and they tend to give back. Our faculty was asked to raise a million dollars towards construction of the new medical school building and in fact they raised two million dollars. We’ve developed brand new research centers, we have a new center for obesity research and education led by Dr. Gary Foster. We have a new center for neurovirology, and a center for minority health.

In the last six years, we’ve recruited over three hundred new faculty — about thirty percent increase in the basic science faculty as well as the clinical faculty at the School of Medicine. We have eleven new department chairs and other major leaders that have been recruited during these past six years.

Well, I graduated from Temple, its School of Medicine, in 1973. After I had trained in surgery at the University of Texas and have been to such outstanding institutions as Cornell, Memorial Sloan Kettering, the University of Pennsylvania, that this was an opportunity for me to come and give back to the institution which really launched me in my medical career.

At Temple Hospital , we see over half a million outpatients every year; we provide care to thousands upon thousands of inpatients from all walks of life and from all different complexities of care. About one out of six physicians practicing in the southeastern portion of Pennsylvania had either had their residency training at Temple Hospital or had gone to school at Temple School of Medicine. So, we play a significant role in the Commonwealth in the medical care of Pennsylvanians.