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Your generosity has made an impact on our work to advance learning, discovery and healing throughout Massachusetts and across the world.


 

Message from the Chancellor

"At UMass Chan Medical School, we are striving to achieve our most ambitious future. The citizens of Massachusetts—and people across the globe—rely on UMass Chan to be a world-class academic health sciences center training the next generation of biomedical science and healing professionals dedicated to transforming health care. As a donor and partner, you are with us on this momentous journey, emboldening our role as current stewards of the public medical school of the commonwealth." 

 

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Chancellor Michael F. Collins

Stories of your support

The stories of support and lists of donors presented here reflect giving between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. 

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    Grateful for his education, Mark Eastham, MD’82, gives back to UMass Chan through a new scholarship

    For Mark Eastham, MD'82, the course to a fulfilling medical career took a somewhat unusual route. It was first set on a summer day in the waters off Cape Cod, after a preliminary stop at the Hyannis Port estate of a rather well-known Massachusetts family. Many years later, the Lowell native is funding a scholarship at UMass Chan Medical School to help aspiring physicians launch their own careers in medicine.

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    Shaff Family Scholarship reflects gratitude and the spirit of educational opportunity

    Leslie Shaff, MD’84, P'99, and Harvey Shaff, DMD, and their family, including David Shaff, MD’99, Heidi Shaff, MD’00, Eric Shaff, MBA, and Sharon Shaff, CPA, fund new scholarship.

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    Leading advocate for emergency medicine, David E. Wilcox, MD, FACEP, establishes research award at UMass Chan

    A longtime leader in emergency medicine, David E. Wilcox, MD, FACEP, is funding a new award that will support research in the specialty at UMass Chan Medical School, where he was a valued faculty member for more than 15 years.

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Advancing Together: The Campaign for UMass Chan

At UMass Chan, we’re Advancing Together.

That’s the name of our ambitious $500 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, which dovetails with UMass Chan’s first brand campaign of the same name and is the largest fundraising initiative in school history.

The Advancing Together campaign will attract philanthropic resources to foster innovation, drive discoveries and educate future leaders in medicine, nursing and science—all so that we can build healthier communities here in Massachusetts and across the world.

Find out how we're Advancing Together

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