What the honor means to three incumbents
An endowed professorship is the highest distinction that can be bestowed upon an HMS faculty member. For more than 240 years, these exclusive honors have provided critical financial support to leaders in their fields who exemplify the School’s mission to alleviate suffering and improve health and well-being for all.
This brief history of endowed professorships at the school is narrated by HMS Dean George Q. Daley, the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, with comments from Mercedes Becerra, the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS; Jean Schaffer, the HMS Ory Family Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, the HMS Dr. Henry Isaiah Dorr Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.