Vision and Values

Our 10-year vision is to: Be a leader in transformative discovery, education, and care in psychiatry, behavioral health and neuroscience.

• Provide outstanding, innovative, and holistic care to our patients and their families
• Facilitate faculty, staff and trainees in thinking critically, acting compassionately, and becoming leaders in scholarship, clinical care and education.
• Be leaders in creative research that spans all phases of the life cycle and the breadth of discovery from basic science to health outcomes
• Drive meaningful community service, advocacy and policymaking

Excellence, integrity, inclusivity, innovative scholarship, social responsibility

• Establish a transparent and team-oriented culture that promotes shared values, goals and accountability
• Welcome diverse voices and perspectives
• Be leaders in promoting Brain Health

• Be the leader in developing, testing and implementing new models of behavioral health care
• Integrate behavioral health services throughout all the healthcare systems associated with the department
• Create team-based programs that integrate clinical, research, and training missions to further patient access, continuity of care and quality of care 

• Support career growth and development of all faculty, staff and trainees
• Design and/or adopt innovative educational techniques and programs.
• Advance international education collaborations

• Lead in behavioral, mental health and neuroscience discovery from bench to bedside to community
• Create a culture to increase the participation of all members of the Department in scholarly activities
• Improve research collaborations within Emory and with other institutions

• Foster community engagement and education
• Cultivate and sustain mutually beneficial, collaborative relationships with the local community, regional, national and international partners
• Enhance philanthropy