EVMS Foundation Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Distinguished Chair

David L. Bernd Distinguished Chair for Cardiovascular and Diabetes
Elias S. Siraj, MD

John Franklin Distinguished Chair for Geriatrics
Marissa C. Galicia-Castillo, MD (MD'97, Internal Medicine Residency '00), MSEd

Chairs

Anne Armistead Robinson Chair in Psychiatry of EVMS
David Spiegel, MD 

Arthur and Marie Kirk Family Chair
Jay N. Collins, MD (Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship '98)

Charles F. Burroughs Jr. Chair in Family & Community Medicine
Margaret Y. Baumgarten, MD (Family and Community Medicine Residency '99)

The Chidester Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine
Barry Knapp, MD

Devine Chair in Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery
Kurt A. McCammon, MD (Urology Residency '98, MPH '12)

Edward J. Brickhouse Chair in Surgery
L.D. Britt, MD, MPH

EVMS Foundation Chair in Psychiatry
Shriti B. Patel, MD, (MD ’06)

EVMS Foundation Chair in Biomedical Sciences
Gerald J. Pepe, PhD

EVMS Foundation Chair in Women's Health
George R. Saade, MD

EVMS Foundation Chair in Pediatrics
C.W. Gowen Jr., MD

EVMS/Sentara Endowed Chair for Academic Leadership Advancement in Internal Medicine
Sami G. Tahham, MD (MD`99)

EVMS/Sentara Endowed Chair for Academic Leadership Advancement in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Gloria T. Too, MD (MD`10)

EVMS/Sentara Endowed Chair for Academic Leadership Advancement in Otolaryngology
Stephanie A. Moody Antonio, MD

EVMS/Sentara Endowed Chair for Academic Leadership Advancement in Psychiatry
Shriti B. Patel, MD (MD`06)

EVMS/Sentara Endowed Chair for Academic Leadership Advancement in Surgery
Jessica R. Burgess, MD (MD`09)

Glenn R. Mitchell Chair in Generalist Medicine
John E. Snellings, MD (MS '05, MD '10, Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Residency '14)

Harry H. Mansbach Chair in Internal Medicine
Rehan Qayyum, MBBS, MHS

Henry Clay Hofheimer II Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Peter Takacs, MD, PhD

Margaret Moore Hall Chair in Surgical Oncology
Marybeth S. Hughes, MD

The Murray Waitzer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
Recruiting

Robert L. Payne Chair in Surgery
Rebecca C. Britt, MD, FACS (MD '98, Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship '04)

The Prudence and Louis Ryan Chair of Research
Milton Brown, MD, PhD

Sentara Healthcare Chair for EVMS Otolaryngology
Barry Strasnick, MD, FACS

Distinguished Professorships

Al Abiouness Distinguished Professorship in Geriatrics
Hamid R. Okhravi, MD

Kay W. Abiouness Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD

Anthem Distinguished Professorship for Cancer Research
O. John Semmes IV, PhD

EVMS Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Biomedical Sciences
Julie A. Kerry, PhD

EVMS Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Emergency Medicine
Donald Byars II, MD (MD'99, Emergency Medicine Residency'02)

EVMS Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine
Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc

Fine Family Distinguished Professorship in Adolescent and Pediatric Psychiatry
Recruiting

James E. Etheridge Jr. Distinguished Professorship
Ronald W. Flenner, MD (MD '89)

Mason C. Andrews Distinguished Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Alfred Abuhamad, MD

Oscar Edwards, MD Memorial Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine
Thomas J. Manser, MD (Internal Medicine Residency '84)

Redwood Distinguished Professorship of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
Nana K. Cudjoe, MD, MPH

Sue Faulkner Scribner Distinguished Professorship in Geriatrics
Mily Kannarkat, MD, FACP

Professorships

Aaron Vinik, MD Professorship in Endocrinology and Diabetes 
David Lieb, MD

Ann & Paul F. Schellhammer, MD Professor in Cancer Research
Robert W. Given, MD

Antoinette F. Hood, MD Professorship in Dermatology
Alice Roberts, MD, PhD

Daniel W. Karakla, MD, FACS Professorship in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Matthew Bak, MD

EVMS Ophthalmology Professorship
Shannon M. McCole, MD (Ophthalmology Residency '97)

Fine Family Professorship in Otolaryngology
John T. Sinacori, MD

Henry Ford Professor of Surgery
L.D. Britt, MD, MPH

John and Lillian Norfleet Professorship in Internal Medicine
Nancy D. Morewitz, MD (MD '81)

Lydia I. Myers Endowed Professorship in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Beverly Roberts-Atwater, DO, PhD 

The McKinnon Family Professorship in Palliative Medicine
Kelly A. Thomson, MBBS

Rosemary Fenton and Garnett Jordan Professorship in Geriatrics
Bahar Niknejad, MD

Toy Savage Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics
Kelli J. England, PhD

Westminster-Canterbury Endowed Professorship in Geriatrics
Richard Whalen, MD (MD '85, Internal Medicine Residency '88)

Zora M. & Gilmer A. Warfield Professorship for Humanities in Medicine
Sahira A. Humadi, MD (Family and Community Medicine Residency '00)

Updated February 2024