Endowed Professorships
Endowed professorships are the most prestigious faculty appointments at Duke University Medical Center.
Because they recognize both exceptional achievement and the potential for future achievement, they are awarded to our most distinguished physician- and nurse-scientists, as well as to junior faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary scholarship in advancing medical science.
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While our endowed professorships honor and celebrate the accomplishments of Duke's most stellar medical and nursing faculty, they also have much to tell us about the history of Duke University Medical Center and the individuals-both within the institution and in the larger community-who built it.
Beginning with Duke University's visionary founding benefactor, North Carolina industrialist James Buchanan Duke, many individuals and families have generously invested their resources at Duke for the benefit of future generations. Some are motivated to join with colleagues to honor a great mentor.
Others are inspired by gratitude for the medical care they or a loved one received here. Still others invest where they see potential to cure a specific disease or advance a field of biomedical science.
Those who establish endowed professorships with Duke Medicine enter into a permanent partnership with the institution.
We are deeply grateful for this legacy of support, and as you will read in these pages, Duke is making the most of every endowment through its products-research that leads to discovery; education for tomorrow's physicians, nurses, and scientists; and innovative health care for people the world over.
Sincerely,
Victor J. Dzau, M.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine
Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University
President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University Health System
Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean, Duke University School of Medicine
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Catherine Lynch Gilliss, D.N.Sc., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Dean, Duke University School of Nursing
Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs
For information about establishing an endowed professorship, please contact Sarah Nicholson, executive director of School of Medicine Development at 919-385-3160, or Fran Mauney, associate dean of Development and Alumni Affairs, School of Nursing, at 919-385-3149.
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