This newly established professorship at Harvard Medical School was celebrated on March 4, 2025, in recognition of the benefactor’s generosity and the achievements of its inaugural incumbent.

By Randy Fox
Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, enjoys a ceremony held in his honor. Image: Gretchen Ertl

Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was celebrated as the inaugural incumbent of the Timothy P. and Keli B. Walbert Professorship of Medicine in the Field of Rheumatology.

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An appointment to an endowed professorship—the highest honor Harvard Medical School can bestow on a faculty member—recognizes extraordinary clinicians, researchers, and educators at HMS or one of its affiliate institutions.