Highlights of achievements for 2011 at Emory University School of Medicine, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the Rollins School of Public Health and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Excerpt of the "State of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center" delivered by Dr. Wright Caughman on Feb. 24, 2011, at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.