UMass Medical School has announced six members of the Medical School faculty who comprise the 2020-21 cohort of Dr. Marcellette G. Williams Distinguished Scholars, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Dean Terence R. Flotte.

I am saddened to learn of the passing of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants. Over the course of his 40-year legal career, Chief Justice Gants distinguished himself as a trailblazer in the legal profession and an outspoken defender of civil rights. It was a great privilege to present the Chief Justice with a UMass School of Law honorary degree in 2016.

Kimberly A. Yonkers, MD, an innovative and visionary leader in the interdisciplinary fields connecting psychiatry and women’s health, will join UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care as chair and professor of psychiatry on Nov. 1, according to Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine.

Oluwabunmi Emidio, MD, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the Clinical and Population Health Research Program, and a postdoctoral fellow in a National Cancer Institute-funded training program Prevention and Control Cancer: Postdoctoral Training in Implementation Science (PRACCTIS). Dr. Emidio wears many hats: doctor, scientist and mother.

Adam Corl, a Graduate Entry Pathway Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the Graduate School of Nursing, found his passion for medicine and health care through his undergraduate experiences at UMass Amherst, and then UMass Boston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 2010.

Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, professor of population & quantitative health sciences in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created position of vice provost for health equity at UMass Medical School, according to announcement by Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Provost Terence R. Flotte. In her new role, which begins immediately, Dr. Rosal reports to the provost with a direct advisory role to the chancellor.

Anne Carlisle, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, came to Massachusetts from Nebraska in 2015. After attending three undergraduate colleges in five years, it had come time for her to make a decision on where she’d pursue a graduate degree. She discovered UMass Medical School through a GSBS Career Eco-Virtual Fair.

The University of Massachusetts campuses recognizes that this year in college admissions will be unlike any other. With that in mind, we invite you and your colleagues to join the Directors of Admissions from all of the University of Massachusetts campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell) for a virtual information session.