The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has 77 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.
![Mathew Frieman, PhS](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/FRIEMAN_MATTHEW.jpg)
Alicia and Yaya Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Matthew B. Frieman, PhD
![Simard_Marc](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Simard_Marc.jpg)
Dr. Bizhan Aarabi Professor of Neurotrauma
J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD
![Konstantin G. Birukov, MD, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Birukov_Konstantin.jpg)
Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurial Research
Konstantin G. Birukov, MD, PhD
![Chao_Wei](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Chao_Wei.jpg)
Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Translational Research
Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHA
![Zhongjun Jon Wu, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Wu_Zhongjun-Jon.jpg)
Peter Angelos Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Surgical Science
Zhongjun Jon Wu, PhD
![Alexander Krupnick](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Krupnick_Alexander.jpg)
Peter Angelos Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Alexander S. Krupnick, MD
![Jeffrey D. Hasday, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Hasday_Jeffrey.jpg)
Dr. Herbert Berger Professor of Medicine
Jeffrey D. Hasday, MD
![Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Gladwin_Mark.jpg)
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
![Lisa M. Shulman, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Shulman_Lisa.jpg)
Eugenia Brin Endowed Professor of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
Lisa M. Shulman, MD
![Stuart Martin](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Martin_Stuart.jpg)
Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Professor of Translational Cancer Research
Stuart S. Martin, PhD
![Alan Faden, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Faden_Alan.jpg)
![Shawn Gaurav Kwatra](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Kwatra_Shawn-Gaurav.jpg)
Dr. Joseph Warren Burnett Professor of Dermatology
Shawn Gaurav Kwarta, MD
![Christine Lau, MD, MBA](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Lau_Christine.jpg)
![](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Chen_Wilbur.jpg)
![Deanna Kelly](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Kelly_Deanna.jpg)
Dr. William and Carol Carpenter Professor in Psychiatry for Mental Illness Research
Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP
![E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Reece_Albert.jpg)
CARTI Endowed Professor
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
![Dr. Rodney Taylor](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Taylor_Rodney.jpg)
Bruce and Isobel Cleland Chair of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Rodney Taylor, MD, MPH
![Dina El-Metwally](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/El-Metwally_Dina.jpg)
Mary Gray Cobey Professor of Neonatology
Dina El-Metwally, MB,BCh, MS, PhD
![](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Stein_Deborah-1.jpg)
R Adams Cowley, MD Professor of Shock and Trauma
Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH
M. Carlyle Crenshaw, Jr., MD and Lillian Ruth Blackmon, MD Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Ozhan Mehmet Turan, MD, PhD
![Elias Melhem](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Melhem_Elias.jpg)
Dean John M. Dennis Chair of Radiology
Elias R. Melhem, MD
![Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Sarkar_Rajabrata-230.jpg)
Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor of Surgery
Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD
![Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Bromberg_Jonathan-1-400x500.jpg)
Charles Reid Edwards, MD Professor of Surgery
Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD
![Graeme F. Woodworth, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Woodworth_Graeme.jpg)
Howard M. Eisenberg, MD Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery
Graeme F. Woodworth, MD
![William Regine, MD, FACR, FACRO](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Regine_William.jpg)
Isadore & Fannie Schneider Foxman Chair of Radiation Oncology
William F. Regine, MD, FACR, FACRO
![Margaret McCarthy](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/McCarthy_Margaret.jpg)
James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean's Professor
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
![James Kaper, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/kaper_james.jpg)
James and Carolyn Frenkil Distinguished Dean's Professor
James B. Kaper, PhD
![Irina Burd](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Burd_Irina.jpg)
Sylvan Frieman, MD Endowed Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Irina Burd, MD, PhD
![George Lewis](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Lewis_George-1.jpg)
Robert C. Gallo, MD Endowed Professor of Translational Medicine
George K. Lewis, PhD
![Taofeek Owonikoko](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/TKO-Updated-Headshot_12.19.23.jpg)
Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Distinguished Professor of Oncology
Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD
![Mohan Suntha](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Suntharalingam_Mohan.jpg)
Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Professor of Radiation Oncology
Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA
Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Professor of Radiation Oncology
![Seemant Chaturvedi, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Chaturvedi_Seemant.jpg)
Stewart J. Greenebaum Endowed Professor of Stroke Neurology
Seemant Chaturvedi, MD
![LEVINE_Mike](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/LEVINE_Mike-.jpg)
Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professor
Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH
Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor of Medicine
![Bartley P. Griffith, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Griffith_Bartley.jpg)
Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor of Transplant Surgery
Bartley P. Griffith, MD
![Peixin Yang, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Yang_Peixin.jpg)
Christopher R. Harman, MD Endowed Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Peixin Yang, PhD
Dr. Martin A. Helrich Chair of Anesthesiology
![Masahiro Iwamoto, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Iwamoto_Masahiro.jpg)
Maxwell Hurston, MD Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedics
Masahiro Iwamoto, PhD
![Steven Czinn](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Czinn_Steven.jpg)
Drs. Rouben and Violet Jiji Endowed Professor
Steven J. Czinn, MD
![Aaron Rapoport](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/rapoport_aaron.jpg)
Gary Jobson Professor of Medical Oncology
Aaron P. Rapoport, MD
![Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS, MCCM](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Scalea_Thomas.jpg)
The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery
Thomas M. Scalea, MD
![Andrew N. Pollak, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Pollak_Andrew-1.jpg)
James Lawrence Kernan Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics
Andrew N. Pollak, MD
Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology
Carl M. Mansfield, MD Endowed Professor of Radiation Oncology
![](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Grant_Michael_Investiture-Pgm3.jpg)
Paul N. Manson, MD Distinguished Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Michael P. Grant, MD, PhD
Matjasko Professor of Anesthesiology Education
Mary J. Njoku, MD
![Gary M. Fiskum, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Fiskum_Gary2.jpg)
Matjasko Professor of Anesthesiology Research
Gary M. Fiskum, PhD
![Bradley Taylor, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Taylor_Brad-400x500.jpg)
Dr. Joseph S. and Irene P. McLaughlin Professor of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Bradley S. Taylor, MD, MPH
![Nader M. Habashi](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/offices-of-the-dean/officeofdevelopment/images/Habashi02.jpg)
Hamish S. and Christine C. Osborne Distinguished Professor of Advanced Pulmonary Care
Nader M. Habashi, MD, FACP, FCCP
![Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Raufman_Jean-Pierre.jpg)
Moses Paulson, MD and Helen Golden Paulson Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD
Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
![Kavic_Stephen](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Kavic_Stephen.jpg)
Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor of Surgery
Stephen M. Kavic, MD
![Stephen G. Reich, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Reich_Stephen.jpg)
Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Stephen G. Reich, MD
![Claire M. Fraser, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Fraser_Claire.jpg)
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA Dean's Professor
Claire M. Fraser, PhD
![Terry Watnick, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Watnick_Terry.jpg)
Joan B. and John H. Sadler, MD Professor of Nephrology
Terry J. Watnick, MD
![Tori Marchese, PhD, PT](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Marchese_Victoria.jpg)
Jane Kroh Satterfield Endowed Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Victoria G. Marchese, PhD, PT
Elijah B. Saunders, MD Professor of Hypertension
![Sharon Henry, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Henry_Sharon.jpg)
Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma
Sharon M. Henry, MD
![David T. Efron, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Efron_David.jpg)
Thomas M. Scalea, MD Distinguished Professor of Trauma Surgery
David T. Efron, MD
![Karen Kotloff, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Kotloff_Karen.jpg)
John A. Scholl, MD and Mary Louise Scholl, MD Professor of Pediatrics
Karen L. Kotloff, MD
![Wang_Jian_Ying_](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Wang_Jian_Ying_.jpg)
Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Professor of Surgery
Jian-Ying Wang, MD, PhD
![Valeria Mas](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Mas_Valeria.jpg)
Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Professor of Surgical Sciences Research in Transplantation
Valeria R. Mas, MS, PhD
Albert Shapiro, MD Professor of Dermatology
Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor of Medicine
![Lishan Su, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Su_Lishan.jpg)
Charles Gordon Smith Endowed Professor of HIV Research
Lishan Su, PhD
Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry
Jill RachBeisel, MD
![Peter Crino](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Crino_Peter.jpg)
Dr. Richard and Kathryn Taylor Endowed Professor of Neurology
Peter B. Crino, MD, PhD
![Eisenberg_Howard](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Eisenberg_Howard.jpg)
R.K. Thompson, MD Professor of Neurosurgery
Howard M. Eisenberg, MD
Thompson-Hevey Professor of Neurosurgery
Elizabeth L. Tso, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine
John F.B. Weaver Professor
John L. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine
Alan R. Shuldiner, MD
![Asaf Keller, PhD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Keller_Asaf.jpg)
Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP Distinguished Professor
Asaf Keller, PhD
Celeste Lauve Woodward, MD Professor of Humanism and Ethical Medical Practice
Susan D. Wolfsthal, MD
![Stephen Davis, MBBS](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Davis_Stephen.jpg)
Theodore E. Woodward Chair of Medicine
Stephen N. Davis, MBBS
Hansjörg Wyss Medical Foundation Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma
Robert V. O'Toole, MD
![Michael J. Naslund, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Naslund_Michael.jpg)
John D. Young Jr. Professor of Urology
Michael J. Naslund, MD
![Curt I. Civin, MD](https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/faculty/faculty-portraits/Civin_Curt_2.jpg)