The UMass Chan Medical School chancellor search is led by a 20-member search committee.

Search Committee Members:

  • (Chair) David M. Brunelle - Trustee, UMass Board of Trustees
  • Rita K. Amoah, RN, PhD '21 - Assistant Professor
  • Bethany Berry - MD/PhD Candidate; UMass Chan Student Trustee
  • Mary Burns, UMass Lowell '84 - Vice Chair, UMass Board of Trustees; Chair, UMass Building Authority Board
  • Kathrine Craven - Executive Vice President, Administration and Finance, Babson College; Director, UMass Foundation Board of Directors & Chair, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Edward H. D'Alelio, UMass Boston '74 - Treasurer & Investment Committee Chair, University of Massachusetts Foundation
  • Kathrine A. Fitzgerald, PhD - Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine; Vice Provost for Basic Science Research; Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair III
  • James R. Julian, Jr, JD - CEO, University of Massachusetts Foundation
  • Katherine Luzuriaga, MD - UMass Memorial Health Care Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research; Vice Provost for Research
  • Justin A. Maykel, MD - Joseph M. Streeter and Mary Streeter DeFeudis Chair of Surgery; Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • Craig C. Mello, PhD - Distinguished Professor; Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine; 2006 Nobel Laureate
  • Timothy P. Murray, JD - Former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts;  President and CEO, Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce
  • Noreen C. Okwara, UMass Boston '12, MD '17 - UMass Board of Trustees
  • R. Norman Peters, JD, '04 (H) - Partner, Peters & Sowydra; Director, UMass Foundation Board of Directors & Member, UMass Building Authority Board
  • Karyn Polito, JD - Former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Vice President of Business Development, UMass Memorial Health
  • Javier A. Reyes, PhD - Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Michael P. Stauff, MD - Chair, Department of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation; Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Endowed Chair in Orthopedics; Associate Professor of Orthopedics
  • A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD - Professor and Chair, Department of Systems Biology; Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research
  • Marcellette G. Williams, PhD - UMass Amherst Chancellor Emerita; Retired Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the UMass President's Office
  • Charles F. Wu - Trustee, UMass Board of Trustees; Member, UMass Building Authority Board
  • *Stephen R. Karam, ex-officio, Chair, UMass Board of Trustees