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Named Professorships

The Feinberg School of Medicine, like many other medical schools, honors outstanding faculty members by appointing them to named professorships. These professorships are established with an endowment, and the generated interest helps support the faculty member's research or educational activities. Feinberg School named professorships are listed below both by the professorship name and the incumbent's name.

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Abbott Laboratories Duane and Susan Burnham Research Professor of Genetic and Molecular Medicine
Lester I. Binder, PhD

Dr. John Sherman Appleman Professor of Medical Education
Diane Wayne, MD 

Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell, Molecular, and Anatomical Sciences
Vladimir I. Gelfand, PhD

Norman and Helen Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
(vacant)

Violet R. and Charles A. Baldwin Professor of Vascular Surgery
William H. Pearce, MD

Dr. Marjorie C. Barnett Professor
Hau C. Kwaan, MD

Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Asthma and Related Disorders
Jacob I. Sznajder, MD

Bluhm Family Professor of Cancer Research
Seema Khan, MD

Robert Bonow, MD Professor
Neil J. Stone, MD

Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology
(vacant)

Drs. Frederick John Bradd and William Kennedy Memorial Professor of Radiology
Eric J. Russell, MD

Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology
William J. Gradishar, MD

John and Ruth Brewer Professor of Gynecology and Cancer Research
Julian C. Schink, MD

Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Linda L. Emanuel, MD, PhD

Joseph C. Calandra Endowed Research Professor of Pathology and Toxicology
Jill C. Pelling, PhD

Chester C. and Deborah M. Cooley Distinguished Professor of Cardiology
Bradley P. Knight, MD

Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry
Linda A. Teplin, PhD

Lillian Sherman Cowen Reiger and Harold L.S. Cowen Research Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology
Marilyn B. Mets, MD

Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine
Douglas E. Vaughan, MD 

Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Lewis Landsberg, MD

Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology
John A. Kessler, MD

Loyal and Edith Davis Professor of Surgery
Nathaniel J. Soper, MD

Nathan Smith Davis Professor of Physiology
D. James Surmeier, PhD

Diana, Princess of Wales Professor of Cancer Research
Charles V. Clevenger, MD, PhD

Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology
Philip Greenland, MD

Johanna Dobe Professor of Hematology/Oncology
Jonathan D. Licht, MD

Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
M.-Marsel Mesulam, MD

Earle, del Greco, Levin Professor of Nephrology/Hypertension
Daniel Batlle, MD

James E. Eckenhoff Professor of Anesthesiology
M. Christine Stock, MD

George M. Eisenberg Professor of Pediatrics
Philip M. Iannaccone, MD, PhD

Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research
Melina Kibbe, MD

Louis Feinberg, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology
Lee M. Jampol, MD

Marie A. Fleming Research Professor of Pathology
William J. Karpus, PhD

Eileen Foell Professor of Heart Research
(vacant)

Vincent W. Foglia Family Research Professor of Dermatology
Dennis P. West, PhD

Ruth K. Freinkel Professor of Dermatology
(vacant)

Abby and John Friend Professor of Oncology Research
Leo I. Gordon, MD

John P. Gallagher Research Professor of Rheumatology
Christian Stehlik, PhD

George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology
Serdar E. Bulun, MD

Albert B. Gerbie, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sharon L. Dooley, MD, MPH

Michael A. Gertz Professor of Medicine
David M. Baker, MD, MPH

Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
John G. Csernansky, MD

Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology
Robert O. Bonow, MD

John T. Grayhack, MD, Professor of Urological Research
(vacant)
 

Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunology 
Stephen D. Miller, PhD

Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology
Amy S. Paller, MD

Heller-Sacks Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD

Lawrence Hicks Professor of Critical Care Medicine
Richard Davison, MD

James R. Hines, MD, Professor of Surgery
David M. Mahvi, MD

John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor of Rheumatology
John Varga, MD

Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Andrea E. Dunaif, MD

Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine
Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD

Lester B. and Frances T. Knight Professor of Cardiology
(vacant)

Herman L. Kretschmer Professor of Urology
Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD

Raymond J. Langenbach, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine
Gary Joseph Martin, MD

Anna Lapham Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lee P. Shulman, MD

Adam and Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics
Rex L. Chisholm, PhD

Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin, and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology
Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD

Robert I. Lurie, MD, and Lora S. Lurie Research Professor
(vacant)

Magerstadt Professor
Clyde Yancy, MD

Magerstadt Professor of Ophthalmology
Vijay Sarthy, PhD

Magerstadt Professor of Pathology
William A. Muller, MD, PhD

Ernest J. and Hattie H. Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor of Physiology
John F. Disterhoft, PhD

Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Elliot J. Roth, MD

Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurosurgery
H. Huntington Batjer, MD

Gilbert H. Marquardt Professor of Medicine
Peter J. Kahrilas, MD

John F. Marquardt, MD, Clinical Research Professor of Vascular Surgery
Mark D. Morasch, MD

Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology
Kathleen J. Green, PhD

Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery
(vacant)

Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery
Malcolm M. DeCamp, Jr., MD

Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Research Professor of Surgery
David J. Bentrem, MD

James Roscoe Miller Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Michael Abecassis, MD

Dr. Charles L. Mix Research Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
Jane Wu, MD, PhD

Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology
Richard M. Pope, MD

Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Research Professor of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders
Tanya Simuni, MD

O'Connor Family Research Professor of Urology
Olga Volpert, PhD

Floyd Elroy Patterson Research Professor of Pathology
Charles Goolsby, PhD

Dr. Roy Patterson Professor of Medicine
Robert P. Schleimer, PhD

John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases
Robert L. Murphy, MD

John Edward Porter Professor of Biomedical Research
Richard M. Longnecker, PhD

Potocsnak Family C.S.C. Research Professor
Frank Palella, MD

Clifford C. Raisbeck, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Li-Qun Zhang, PhD

Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology
Robert D. Goldman, PhD

Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy
Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, PhD

Janardan K. Reddy, MD, Professor of Pathology
(vacant)

Jules J. Reingold Research Professor
John Andrew Wasserstrom, PhD

Alfred Newton Richards Professor of Pharmacology
Richard J. Miller, PhD

Lee F. Rogers, MD, Professor of Medical Education
Ellen B. Mendelson, MD

Edwin Warner Ryerson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Michael F. Schafer, MD

Samuel Jefferson Sackett Professor of Infectious Diseases
Steven M. Wolinsky, MD

Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD, Professor of Urology
(vacant)

John J. Sciarra, MD, PhD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(vacant)

John G. Searle Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
D. Martin Watterson, PhD

Martha Leland Sherwin Professor
Mark E. Molitch, MD

David Shoch, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology
Steven H. DeVries, MD, PhD

Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Professor of Medicine
Syamal K. Datta, MD

Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Research Professor
Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, MD, DrPH


Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Research Professor 
Leena Sharma, MD

Tom D. Spies Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism
Boyd E. Metzger, MD

David Lawrence Stein Research Professor of Psychiatric Diseases Affecting Children and Adolescents
Eva E. Redei, PhD

Paul E. Steiner Research Professor of Pathology
LoAnn C. Peterson, MD

Marcia Stenn Professor of Gynecologic Oncology
John Robert Lurain, III, MD

Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
Lee Miller, PhD

Orion H. and Lucille W. Stuteville Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Thomas A. Mustoe, MD

Jacob R. Suker, MD, Professor of Medical Education
William C. McGaghie, PhD

Elsa A. Swanson Research Professor
(vacant)

George and Edwina Tarry Professor of Ophthalmology
Nicholas J. Volpe, MD

Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine
Steven T. Rosen, MD

Les Turner ALS Foundation/Herbert C. Wenske Foundation Professor
Teepu Siddique, MD

Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Kathryn Montgomery, PhD

Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Michael L. Socol, MD

Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD

James S. T. Yao, MD, PhD, Professor of Education in Vascular Surgery
Mark K. Eskandari, MD

Guy and Anne Youmans Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
Laimonis Laimins, PhD

Listing by Incumbent

Michael Abecassis, MD
James Roscoe Miller Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, PhD
Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy

David M. Baker, MD, MPH
Michael A. Gertz Professor of Medicine

Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD
Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine 

H. Huntington Batjer, MD
Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurosurgery

Daniel Batlle, MD
Earle, del Greco, and Levin Professor of Nephrology/Hypertension

David J. Bentrem, MD
Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Research Professor of Surgery

Lester I. Binder, PhD
Abbott Laboratories Duane and Susan Burnham Research Professor of Genetic and Molecular Medicine

Robert O. Bonow, MD
Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology

Serdar E. Bulun, MD
George H. Gardner, MD, Professor of Clinical Gynecology

Rex L. Chisholm, PhD
Adam and Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics

Charles V. Clevenger, MD, PhD
Diana, Princess of Wales Professor of Cancer Research

John G. Csernansky, MD
Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Syamal K. Datta, MD
Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Professor of Medicine

Richard Davison, MD
Lawrence Hicks Professor of Critical Care Medicine

Malcolm M. DeCamp, Jr., MD
Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery

Steven H. DeVries, MD, PhD
David Shoch, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology

John F. Disterhoft, PhD
Ernest J. and Hattie H. Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor of Physiology

Sharon L. Dooley, MD, MPH
Albert B. Gerbie, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Andrea E. Dunaif, MD
Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Linda L. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine

Mark K. Eskandari, MD
James S. T. Yao, MD, PhD, Professor of Education in Vascular Surgery

Vladimir I. Gelfand, PhD
Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell, Molecular, and Anatomical Sciences

Robert D. Goldman, PhD
Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology

Charles Goolsby, PhD
Floyd Elroy Patterson Research Professor of Pathology

Leo I. Gordon, MD
Abby and John Friend Professor of Oncology Research

William J. Gradishar, MD
Betsy Bramsen Professor of Breast Oncology

Kathleen J. Green, PhD
Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology

Philip Greenland, MD
Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology

Philip M. Iannaccone, MD, PhD
George M. Eisenberg Professor of Pediatrics

Lee M. Jampol, MD
Louis Feinberg, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology

Peter J. Kahrilas, MD
Gilbert H. Marquardt Professor of Medicine

William J. Karpus, PhD
Marie A. Fleming Research Professor of Pathology

John A. Kessler, MD
Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology

Seema Khan, MD
Bluhm Family Professor of Cancer Research

Melina Kibbe, MD
Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research

Bradley P. Knight, MD
Chester C. and Deborah M. Cooley Distinguished Professor of Cardiology

Hau C. Kwaan, MD
Dr. Marjorie C. Barnett Professor

Laimonis A. Laimins, PhD
Guy and Anne Youmans Professor of Microbiology-Immunology

Lewis Landsberg, MD
Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine Emeritus

Jonathan D. Licht, MD
Johanna Dobe Professor of Hematology/Oncology

Richard M. Longnecker, PhD
John Edward Porter Professor of Biomedical Research

John Robert Lurain, III, MD
Marcia Stenn Professor of Gynecologic Oncology

David M. Mahvi, MD
James R. Hines, MD, Professor of Surgery

Gary J. Martin, MD
Raymond J. Langenbach, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine

Patrick M. McCarthy, MD
Heller-Sacks Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

William C. McGaghie, PhD
Jacob R. Suker, MD, Professor of Medical Education

Ellen B. Mendelson, MD
Lee F. Rogers, MD, Professor of Medical Education

M.-Marsel Mesulam, MD
Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Marilyn B. Mets, MD
Lillian Sherman Cowen Reiger and Harold L.S. Cowen Research Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology

Boyd E. Metzger, MD
Tom D. Spies Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism

Lee Miller, PhD
Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience

Richard J. Miller, PhD
Alfred Newton Richards Professor of Pharmacology

Stephen D. Miller, PhD
Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunology

Mark E. Molitch, MD
Martha Leland Sherwin Professor

Kathryn Montgomery, PhD
Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics

Mark D. Morasch, MD
John F. Marquardt, MD, Clinical Research Professor of Vascular Surgery

William A. Muller, MD, PhD
Magerstadt Professor of Pathology

Robert L. Murphy, MD
John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases

Thomas A. Mustoe, MD
Orion H. and Lucille W. Stuteville Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Amy S. Paller, MD
Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology

Frank Palella, MD
Potocsnak Family C.S.C. Research Professor

William H. Pearce, MD
Violet R. and Charles A. Baldwin Professor of Vascular Surgery

Jill C. Pelling, PhD
Joseph C. Calandra Research Professor of Pathology and Toxicology

LoAnn C. Peterson, MD
Paul E. Steiner Research Professor of Pathology

Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD
Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin, and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology

Richard M. Pope, MD
Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology

Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, MD, DrPh
Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Research Professor

Eva E. Redei, PhD
David Lawrence Stein Research Professor of Psychiatric Diseases Affecting Children and Adolescents

Steven T. Rosen, MD
Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine

Elliot J. Roth, MD
Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

Eric J. Russell, MD
Drs. Frederick John Bradd and William Kennedy Professor of Radiology

Vijay P. Sarthy, PhD
Magerstadt Professor of Ophthalmology

Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD
Herman L. Kretschmer Professor of Urology

Michael F. Schafer, MD
Edwin Warner Ryerson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Julian C. Schink, MD
John and Ruth Brewer Professor of Gynecology and Cancer Research

Robert P. Schleimer, PhD
Dr. Roy Patterson Professor of Medicine

Leena Sharma, MD
Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Research Professor

Lee P. Shulman, MD
Anna Lapham Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Teepu Siddique, MD
Les Turner ALS Foundation/Herbert C. Wenske Foundation Professor

Tanya Simuni, MD
Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Research Professor of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders

Michael L. Socol, MD
Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Nathaniel J. Soper, MD
Loyal and Edith Davis Professor of Surgery

Christian Stehlik, PhD
John P. Gallagher Research Professor of Rheumatology

M. Christine Stock, MD
James E. Eckenhoff Professor of Anesthesiology

Neil J. Stone, MD
Robert Bonow, MD Professor

D. James Surmeier, PhD
Nathan Smith Davis Professor of Physiology

Jacob I. Sznajder, MD
Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Asthma and Related Disorders

Linda A. Teplin, PhD
Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

John Varga, MD
John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor of Rheumatology

Douglas E. Vaughan, MD 
Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine

Nicholas J. Volpe, MD
George and Edwina Tarry Professor of Ophthalmology

Olga Volpert, PhD
O'Connor Family Research Professor of Urology

John A. Wasserstrom, PhD
Jules J. Reingold Research Professor

D. Martin Watterson, PhD
John G. Searle Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Diane Wayne, MD
Dr. John Sherman Appleman Professor of Medical Education

Dennis P. West, PhD
Vincent W. Foglia Family Research Professor of Dermatology

Steven M. Wolinsky, MD
Samuel Jefferson Sackett Professor of Infectious Diseases

Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD
Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jane Wu, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles L. Mix Research Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry

Clyde Yancy, MD
Magerstadt Professor

Li-Qun Zhang, PhD
Clifford C. Raisbeck, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery