Medical School Chancellor Search

Search Committee Members

University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson and the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees have established a search committee to conduct a national search for a new chancellor for the University's Medical campus.

The search committee is tasked with seeking, encouraging, interviewing and recommending to the President the strongest possible candidates for the position of Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Chaired by Trustee Philip W. Johnston, the committee includes UMass Medical School faculty members, trustees, alumni, and business and community leaders.

Chairman: Philip W. Johnston, University of Massachusetts Trustee, President of Philip W. Johnston Associates and former state legislator and gubernatorial cabinet secretary

Vice Chairman: Craig C. Mello, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and professor of molecular medicine and cell biology

Members:

  • John F. Blais, Founder and President of BlaisCo, LLC
  • Michael P. Czech, PhD, Chair, Molecular Medicine
  • Jennifer S. Daly, MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases and Immunology
  • Walter H. Ettinger, Jr., MD, MBA, President, UMass Memorial Medical Center and Associate Vice Provost for Clinical and Population Health Research
  • Marianne E. Felice, MD, Chair, Pediatrics
  • Robert W. Finberg, MD, Chair, Medicine
  • Terence R. Flotte, MD, Executive Deputy Chancellor, Dean and Provost for the School of Medicine
  • Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health; Chief Health Policy Strategist, UMMS
  • Charles J. Hoff, Former Chairman and CEO of Universal/Univis, Inc.
  • James R. Julian, Jr., JD, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, President's Office
  • Trustee James J. Karam, President, First Bristol Corporation 
  • Daniel H. Lasser, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Katherine F. Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MD, Professor, Pediatrics
  • Trustee Bharath D. Nath, Student Trustee
  • Trustee Kerri E. Osterhaus-Houle, MD, Alumna and Partner, Women's Health of Central Massachusetts
  • Linda A. Pape, MD, Professor, Medicine
  • Trustee Janet D. Pearl, MD, Co-Director of Pain Management Center at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
  • R. Norman Peters, JD, Principal, Peters & Sowyrda and member of UMass Foundation Board of Directors
  • Paulette Seymour Route, PhD, RN, MS, Alumna and Dean of Graduate School of Nursing
  • Marian Wilson, PhD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Equal Opportunity
  • Marcellette G. Williams, PhD, Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and International Relations, President's Office

Committee Staff:

  • Susan Kelly, Assistant Vice President, University of Massachusetts President's Office

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University of Massachusetts Medical School Chancellor Search