Celebrating HMS faculty who hold endowed professorships

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD, and Harvard University President Alan Garber, AB ’77, AM ’77, PhD ’82, MD, hosted a black-tie gala Jan. 9 to honor the distinguished HMS faculty members who hold endowed professorships. The event, Legacies of Excellence, featured a reception, dinner, and addresses by distinguished speakers. 

Endowed professorships represent the highest honor that HMS confers upon its faculty. Professors with these titles serve as beacons of excellence in research, clinical innovation, and educational leadership. They make extraordinary contributions to science and medicine as they shape the Harvard medical community and beyond. 

Both Daley and Garber hold endowed HMS professorships—Daley is the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, while Garber is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy. 

In addition to Daley and Garber, remarks at the event were delivered by Anne E. Becker, AB ’83, MD ’90, PhD ’90, SM ’05, dean for clinical and academic affairs, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and a professor of psychiatry at HMS; Gary R. Fleisher, MD, the Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics at HMS and physicianin- chief at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH); and Robert Smith, AB ’81, MBA ’85, benefactor of the Robert and Dana Smith Professorship at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and BCH.