Hatcher Award

Rollins Dean James Curran presented Thomas Lawley, who stepped down as dean of the medical school in 2012, with the Charles R. Hatcher Jr. M.D. Award for Excellence in Public Health. "Tom and I were deans together for a long time. The Rollins School of Public Health would not be as good as it is without Tom having been dean of the medical school," Curran said. The schools have worked together to increase the number of students graduating with MD/MPH degrees to approximately 20 a year, Lawley said. The RSPH opened during Hatcher’s tenure as Emory vice president of health affairs.