The Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and an impactful legacy in family medicine education and patient-centered primary care. Illuminating the milestone year is a new fund honoring the department’s former chair, Daniel H. Lasser, MD, MPH, which will boost efforts to train the next generation of family physicians and pursue innovations in medical education and practice. 

As executive director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School, Jean A. Frazier, MD, led the center’s innovative work to improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and/or behavioral health disorders, and their families, for nearly a decade. 

On March 28, second-year students in the T.H. Chan School of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School packed the multipurpose room in the Albert Sherman Center and got a crash course in leadership from Gerard R. (Gerry) Cox, MD’83, MHA, who led a distinguished medical career in government and military service.