Endowed professorships are the highest honor awarded to Harvard Medical School faculty.
This esteemed distinction recognizes exceptional clinicians, researchers, and educators at HMS or one of its affiliate institutions.
Some endowed professorships are intended to honor expertise within a broad field of study (e.g., psychiatry), whereas others have a more specific focus. Incumbents are appointed in recognition of their singular contributions to medical science in a particular area, as well as their national and often international reputations as leaders in education, clinical expertise, and investigation. Endowed professorships at affiliate institutions stand in perpetuity, generating invaluable support for incumbents, their institutions, and HMS while building a history of remarkable scholarship and leadership under one name.
Recently Appointed Endowed Professors