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(Peter Buckley, MCG Dean, presenting Medallion to Dr. Neal Weintraub, GRA Herbert S. Kupperman, MD Eminent Scholar in Cardiovacular Medicine, 6/13/2013)


The Medical College of Georgia hosted an Investiture Ceremony on June 13, 2013 to honor those who have recently been named to endowed chairs. The ceremony also honored those named Professor Emeriti and Regents’ Professors in the same time period. “Holding an endowed chair is a great honor at MCG, signifying tremendous achievement and great respect among one’s colleagues,” Dean Peter F. Buckley said. Chairs are established with $500,000 endowments. A Distinguished Chair signifies a $1 million endowment, and a University Distinguished Chair signifies a $2 million endowment. Chairs are typically named for an outstanding faculty member or other distinguished member of the Georgia Regents University community who has inspired those in the department housing the chair. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has the final naming approval. Endowed chairs enhance faculty recruitment and retention by providing additional incentives, including enhanced prestige, for those who hold the chair.

Endowed chairs honor their namesakes as well as those who hold the chairs, and they reward excellence while enhancing the university’s reputation and inspiring excellent faculty or potential faculty who hope to follow in the footsteps of the honorees. The Medical College of Georgia Foundation currently has 47 endowed chairs.

Five distinguished faculty were named to endowed chairs and seven received Professor Emeritus status, on June 13, 2013, for their outstanding academic, clinical, and research achievements. Those honored include:

2012-13 New Endowed Chairs

Michael P. Diamond, MD - William H. Brooks, MD Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Julietta U. Frey, PhD - Charbonnier Professor

W. Vaughn McCall, MD - Case Distinguished Chair of Psychiatry and Health Behavior

Joseph P. McEvoy, MD - I. Clark Case, MD Distinguished Chair in Psychotic Disorders

Neal L. Weintraub, MD - GRA Herbert S. Kupperman, MD Eminent Scholar in Cardiovascular Medicine

2012-13 New Professors Emeriti

Sally S. Atherton, PhD - Regents' Professor Emeritus

John D. Catravas, PhD - Regents' Professor Emeritus

Adarsh K. Gulati, PhD - Professor Emeritus

Anthony L. Pearson-Shaver, MD - Professor Emeritus

Dale W. Sickles, PhD - Professor Emeritus

Sandra P.T. Tho, MD - Professor Emeritus

Christopher B. White, MD - Professor Emeritus

Alvin V. Terry Jr, PhD - Regents' Professor