Terence R. Flotte, MD

The White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2026 took place at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester on Friday, Sept. 16. The 175 students who received their coats represent UMass Chan’s largest entering medical school class.

In his annual Convocation address to the UMass Chan Medical School community on Thursday, Sept. 16, Chancellor Michael F. Collins expressed optimism for the Medical School’s ambitious future and touted the enormous momentum moving the school forward.

Funded and launched by Doranne and Randy Hudson, MD’78, the inaugural UMass Chan Medical School Hudson Lecture will take place on Monday, Sept. 19, and is intended to help prepare third- and fourth-year medical students for leadership in their health care careers.

Chancellor Michael F. Collins welcomed the 175 students in the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2026 on Monday, Aug. 22, the same day that a new medical school curriculum was launched and the ceremonial beam was placed on top of the new education and research building.

Carrying the signatures of hundreds of community members, project leaders and members of Iron Workers Local 7, the ceremonial steel beam marking the “topping off” of the new education and research building under construction on the Worcester campus of UMass Chan Medical School was placed on Monday, Aug. 22.

UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, part of the Beth Israel Lahey Health system, announced that they have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to establish a regional campus of the commonwealth’s only public medical school at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington to help train, develop and support the next generation of health care leaders.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Chan Medical School mapped the expression and maturation of the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) with unprecedented clarity. UMass Chan gene therapy pioneer Terence R. Flotte, MD, is a co-author on the paper.

The 49th annual UMass Chan Medical School Commencement returned to campus on Sunday, June 5, under the tent on the campus green where 281 degrees were awarded.

Members of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2022 were lauded on Friday, June 3, at UMass Chan Medical School’s awards ceremony for their resilience shown during the life-changing pandemic years.

The UMass Chan Medical School chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society inducted 36 members on June 1, including 26 members from the Class of 2023 who demonstrate compassionate, patient-centered care.