The highest honor that a department can bestow upon a faculty member is a named professorship. Within the Department of Internal Medicine, the tradition of this honor began almost 50 years ago with a gift from a Michigan alumnus, John Gideon Searle, in 1968. Since then, more than 80 professorships have been established in the Department of Internal Medicine. Faculty members who currently hold professorships are listed below.
Professorships are made possible by the generosity of our donors and bring many practical benefits to the recipient. These include funding to support and advance the faculty member's research, time to pursue novel or early areas of inquiry, and more opportunities to help develop younger colleagues and students.
If you have questions or would like more information about the Department of Internal Medicine’s professorships, please contact our development team.
Department of Internal Medicine
John M. Carethers, MD
John G. Searle Professorship in Internal Medicine
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
James R. Baker, Jr., MD
Ruth Dow Doan Professorship in Biologic Nanotechnology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Keith D. Aaronson, MD
Bertram Pitt, MD, Collegiate Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
William F. Armstrong III, MD
Franklin Davis Johnston Collegiate Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
David S. Bach, MD
Park W. Willis III Collegiate Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Yuqing Eugene Chen, MD, PhD
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanley J. Chetcuti, MD
Eric J. Topol Collegiate Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Kim A. Eagle, MD
Albion Walter Hewlett Professorship in Internal Medicine
Daniel R. Goldstein, MD
Eliza Maria Mosher Collegiate Professorship in Internal Medicine
Jose Jalife, MD
Cyrus and Jane Farrehi Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Kenneth A. Jamerson, MD
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Collegiate Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Daniel A. Lawrence, PhD
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Collegiate Professorship of Basic Research in Cardiovascular Medicine
Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD
Kim A. Eagle, MD, Endowed Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Fred Morady, MD
McKay Professorship in Cardiovascular Disease
Hakan Oral, MD
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Faculty Research Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
David J. Pinsky, MD
J. Griswold Ruth, MD and Margery Hopkins Ruth Professorship in Internal Medicine
Hector H. Valdivia, MD, PhD
Frank Norman Wilson Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
William D. Chey, MD
Timothy T. Nostrant, MD, Collegiate Professorship in Gastroenterology
Grace H. Elta, MD
H. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professorship in Gastroenterology
Joseph C. Kolars, MD
Josiah Macy, Jr. Professorship in Health Professions Education
Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD, FRCP
Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology
Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD
H. Marvin Pollard Professorship in Gastrointestinal Sciences
M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD
H. Marvin Pollard Professorship in Gastroenterology
Chung Owyang, MD
H. Marvin Pollard Professorship in Internal Medicine
Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD
H. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professorship in Endoscopy Research
General Medicine
John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
Alice Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Medicine, Medical School
Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD
Victor Vaughan Collegiate Professorship in the History of Internal Medicine
Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH
Louis Newburgh Research Professorship in Internal Medicine
Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN
Rensis Likert Collegiate Research Professorship
Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD
Cyrus Sturgis Research Professorship in Internal Medicine
Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, MD
Marguerite S. Roll Professorship in Medical Education
James O. Woolliscroft, MD
Lyle C. Roll Professorship in Medicine
Genetic Medicine
Eric R. Fearon, MD, PhD
Emanuel N. Maisel Professorship in Oncology
David Ginsburg, MD
Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis Professorship in Medicine
Cheng-yu Lee, PhD
Robert H. Bartlett Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences
Stephen J. Weiss, MD
E. Giford and Love Barnett Upjohn Professorship in Internal Medicine and Oncology
Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
Neil Alexander, MD, MS
Ivan Duff MD Collegiate Professorship in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
Lona Mody, MD, MSc
Amanda Sanford Hickey Collegiate Professorship in Internal Medicine
Raymond L. Yung, MB, ChB
Jeffrey B. Halter, MD, Professorship in Geriatrics Medicine
Hematology and Oncology
Laurence H. Baker, DO
Collegiate Professorship in Cancer Developmental Therapeutics
Dean E. Brenner, MD
Moshe Talpaz, MD, Professorship in Translational Oncology
Ronald J. Buckanovich, MD, PhD
Thomas H. Simpson Collegiate Professorship, Medical School
Shirish M. Gadgeel, MBBS
Marylou Kennedy Research Professorship in Thoracic Oncology
Daniel F. Hayes, MD
Stuart B. Padnos Professorship in Breast Cancer
James M. Rae, PhD
Thomas H. Simpson Collegiate Professorship in Cancer Research, Medical School
Pavan R. Reddy, MD
Frances and Victor Ginsberg Professorship in Hematology/Oncology
Moshe Talpaz, MD
Alexander J. Trotman Professorship in Leukemia Research
Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD
Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence M. Sprague Memorial Research Professorship
Shaomeng Wang, PhD
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professorship in Medicine
Max S. Wicha, MD
Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology
Hospital Medicine
Sanjay K. Saint, MD, MPH
George Dock Collegiate Professorship in Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Kathleen L. Collins, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine Collegiate Professorship in HIV Research
Vincent B. Young, MD, PhD
William Henry Fitzbutler Collegiate Professorship in Internal Medicine
Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes
Peter Arvan, MD, PhD
William K. and Delores S. Brehm Professorship in Type 1 Diabetes Research
Charles F. Burant, MD, PhD
Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professorship in Metabolism
Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD
Millie Schembechler Professorship in Adrenal Cancer
William H. Herman, MD, MPH
Stefan S. Fajans, MD/GlaxoSmithKline Professorship in Diabetes
Martin G. Myers, Jr., MD, PhD
Marilyn H. Vincent Professorship in Diabetes Research
Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine Collegiate Professorship in Diabetes Complications
William E. Rainey, PhD
Jerome W. Conn Collegiate Professorship
Nephrology
Matthias Kretzler, MD
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professorship in Medicine
Subramaniam Pennathur, MD
Norman Radin Professorship in Nephrology
Rajiv Saran, MBBS, MD, DTCD, MRCP, MS
Florence E. Bingham Research Professorship in Nephrology
James A. Shayman, MD
Agnes C. and Frank D. McKay Professorship
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Gary B. Huffnagle, PhD
Nina and Jerry D. Luptak Research Professorship
Vibha N. Lama, MD, MS
Henry Sewall Research Professorship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Bethany B. Moore, PhD
Galen B. Toews, MD, Collegiate Professorship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Theodore J. Standiford, MD
Henry Sewall Professorship in Medicine
Rheumatology
David A. Fox, MD
Frederick G.L. Huetwell and William D. Robinson, MD, Professorship in Rheumatology
Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professorship in Rheumatology
W. Joseph McCune, MD
Michael H. and Marcia S. Klein Professorship in Rheumatic Diseases
Bruce C. Richardson, MD, PhD
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Research Professorship in Rheumatology
Amr H. Sawalha, MD
Marvin and Betty Danto Research Professorship in Connective Tissue Research
Pei-Suen (Eliza) Tsou, PhD
Edward T. and Ellen K. Dryer Early Career Professorship In Rheumatology
