Meet Chancellor David McManus Descriptive Transcript

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I'm David McManus, the chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School.

I'm a Massachusetts native.

I grew up in the Boston area to two public school teachers, who instilled in me a love of education from an early age.

DAVID D. MCMANUS, MD'02, SCM'12, MBA, CHANCELLOR
I became first interested in science because I was working in a professor's laboratory working on a gene called protein phosphatase and trying to understand its influence on cellular function.
I started taking pre-med classes with the idea that I would be a physician-scientist. I had a really great pre-med advisor in college.
And I started telling him I was interested in being a scientist and in service, and that I was from Massachusetts. And he said, stop. We don't need to talk anymore.
You need to apply to UMass Chan Medical School. So I applied, early decision. And the rest is history.

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UMass Chan is also where I met my wife, Diana McManus.

I had convinced her to study with me. That was my in.

DIANA MCMANUS, MD'02
I was really excited to see him, and talk to him, and have a one on one conversation with him because one on one, he really connects with people and makes you feel calm and heard.

GERARD AURIGEMMA, MD PROFESSOR, MEDICINE AND FELLOWSHIP MENTOR OF DR. MCMANUS
Dave's commitment to excellence in everything he does, everything he does, he does well.
He's fair.
He's got remarkable vision and an abiding passion for this institution.

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MELANIE BARBINI MD/PHD, AND MENREE OF DR. MCMANUS
I've been working with Dr. McManus for the past three years.
He's shown me that it's not only important, as a physician scientist, to know the science and the medicine that goes behind helping patients, but more importantly, to be personable with them, and understand their life story, as they're more than a disease.

NATE HAFER, PHD CO-DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ADVANCING POINT OF CARE TECHNOLOGIES
We were developing point-of-care technologies in the heart, lung, and blood space. And when COVID began, we were approached by NIH.
What we were doing could be applied for SARS-COV-2 diagnostics.
We were able to bring in this award, which was the largest in UMass system history, meeting with scientists and people developing different diagnostic technologies and helping them move their products from idea to the bench to clinical studies to the market.

DAVID D. MCMANUS, MD'02, SCM'12, MBA, CHANCELLOR
I remember from a very early age, the importance of team. My parents were strongly influential in this. They emphasized that for a person to be successful, you have to lift up the group around you.
The characteristic of my leadership has always been to prioritize trying to think about how to advance the whole team and make sure that everybody is brought along.

DIANA MCMANUS, MD'02
To have him leading an institution that means so much to both of us as individuals, but also to our family and our community. We couldn't be prouder.

DAVID D. MCMANUS, MD'02, SCM'12, MBA, CHANCELLOR
It means the world to me to have the privilege of leading my medical school. It's just a tremendous honor.

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