Endowed Chairs & Professorships

The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has 80 endowed chairs, distinguished professorships, and professorships.

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These vital positions support our faculty, who advance medical education, discovery, and clinical innovation. Click on the names below to learn more about UMSOM faculty members who hold endowed positions.

Investiture Ceremonies

Since 2007, UMSOM has hosted Investiture Ceremonies to celebrate these prodigious achievements with faculty, families, and friends. To watch past events, please visit our Investiture Ceremonies page.

Investiture Ceremonies

Alicia and Yaya Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Dr. Bizhan Aarabi Professor of Neurotrauma

Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurial Research

Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Translational Research

Peter Angelos Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Surgical Science

Peter Angelos Distinguished Professor of Surgery

Dr. Herbert Berger Professor of Medicine

John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean

Eugenia Brin Endowed Professor of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders

Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Professor of Translational Cancer Research

David S. Brown Professor of Trauma

Dr. Joseph Warren Burnett Professor of Dermatology

Dr. Robert W. Buxton Chair of Surgery

Frank M. Calia, MD Endowed Professor

Dr. William and Carol Carpenter Professor in Psychiatry for Mental Illness Research

CARTI Endowed Professor

Bruce and Isobel Cleland Chair of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Mary Gray Cobey Professor of Neonatology

R Adams Cowley, MD Professor of Shock and Trauma

M. Carlyle Crenshaw, Jr., MD and Lillian Ruth Blackmon, MD Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine

Dean John M. Dennis Chair of Radiology

Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor of Surgery

Charles Reid Edwards, MD Professor of Surgery

Howard M. Eisenberg, MD Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery

Isadore & Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair of Radiation Oncology

James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean's Professor

James and Carolyn Frenkil Distinguished Dean's Professor

Sylvan Frieman, MD Endowed Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Robert C. Gallo, MD Endowed Professor of Translational Medicine

Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Distinguished Professor of Oncology

Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Professor of Radiation Oncology

Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Professor of Radiation Oncology

Stewart J. Greenebaum Endowed Professor of Stroke Neurology

Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor

Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor of Transplant Surgery

Christopher R. Harman, MD Endowed Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

Dr. Martin A. Helrich Chair of Anesthesiology

Dr. J. Laurance Hill Endowed Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Maxwell Hurston, MD Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedics

Drs. Rouben and Violet Jiji Endowed Professor

Gary Jobson Professor of Medical Oncology

The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery

James Lawrence Kernan Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics

Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology

Carl M. Mansfield, MD Endowed Professor of Radiation Oncology

Paul N. Manson, MD Distinguished Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Matjasko Professor of Anesthesiology Education

Matjasko Professor of Anesthesiology Research

Dr. Joseph S. and Irene P. McLaughlin Professor of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Hamish S. and Christine C. Osborne Distinguished Professor of Advanced Pulmonary Care

Moses Paulson, MD and Helen Golden Paulson Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Professor of Pediatric Cardiology

Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor of Surgery

Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Professor of Neurology

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA Dean's Professor

Joan B. and John H. Sadler, MD Professor of Nephrology

Jane Kroh Satterfield Endowed Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science

Elijah B. Saunders, MD Professor of Hypertension

Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma

Thomas M. Scalea, MD Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery

John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor of Pediatrics

Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Professor of Surgery

Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Professor of Surgical Sciences Research in Transplantation

Albert Shapiro, MD Professor of Dermatology

Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor of Medicine

Charles Gordon Smith Endowed Professor of HIV Research

Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Richard and Kathryn Taylor Endowed Professor of Neurology

R.K. Thompson, MD Professor of Neurosurgery

Thompson-Hevey Professor of Neurosurgery

Elizabeth L. Tso, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine

John F.B. Weaver Professor

John L. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine

Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP Distinguished Professor

Celeste Lauve Woodward, MD Professor of Humanism and Ethical Medical Practice

Theodore E. Woodward Chair of Medicine

Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma