About @umasschan

@umasschan is the magazine of UMass Chan Medical School, one of five campuses of the UMass system. The magazine is distributed periodically to members, benefactors and friends of the UMass Chan community. It is produced and published by the Office of Communications. Readers are invited to comment on the contents of the magazine, via email to UMassChanCommunications@umassmed.edu

Chancellor and Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences: Michael F. Collins, MD
Executive Deputy Chancellor and Provost, Dean of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine: Terence R. Flotte, MD
Executive Vice Chancellor for Communications: Jennifer Berryman
Editor: Ellie Castano
Design: Dan Lambert
Photography: UMass Chan Office of Communications except as noted
Office of Communications staff contributors: Samuella Akaab, Joanna Alizio, Jim Fessenden, Bryan Goodchild, Janjay Innis, Lisa Larson, Hallie Leo, Colleen Locke, Hayley Mignacca, Pat Sargent, Susan E.W. Spencer, Sarah Willey

Mission
UMass Chan Medical School is the commonwealth’s first and only public academic health sciences center, home to three graduate schools. Our mission is to advance the health and wellness of our diverse communities throughout Massachusetts and across the world by leading and innovating in education, research, health care delivery and public service.

Land acknowledgment
UMass Chan Medical School acknowledges that its campus is located on lands that were once part of the original homeland of the Nipmuc people. We denounce the violence that stripped these original stewards of lands that were their ancestral home and denied their descendants the opportunity for an authentic connection to it. In making this acknowledgment, we announce our intention to listen to and follow the lead of our Indigenous neighbors and work together to create new legacies of equity and respect.