Front from left, Joel Katz and Marshall Wolf are joined by, back from left, Joseph Loscalzo and Eugene Braunwald.
BWH honored one of academic medicine’s most influential educators, Vice Chairman for Medical Education Marshall Wolf, MD, by endowing a chair in his name to ensure that his legacy of superior medical education continues. Wolf has trained nearly 2,000 of today’s leading clinicians and academic physicians.
Staff, patients, family and friends in November celebrated the establishment of the Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medicine and its first incumbent, Joel Katz, MD, director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
“Marshall’s innovative teaching methods and his unparalleled dedication to his trainees have garnered him a well-deserved reputation as one of the best and most influential medical educators of our time,” BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, said. “The Wolf chair will ensure our ability to recruit and retain the best clinicians and medical educators.”
Eugene Braunwald, MD, chair of the TIMI Study Group, introduced Wolf, noting that BWH’s program attracted many talented students under his leadership. “What distinguishes Marshall from other medical education directors is that for him, this has been a destination position, not a preparation for his next job,” Braunwald said.
Wolf, who received a standing ovation, thanked those who contributed to the endowment of the chair, including donors, patients and residents. “Generations of residents and patients will benefit from what you have done,” he said, thanking Katz for “making the Brigham residency program even better than the one I directed.”
Katz trained under Wolf and served as chief resident during Wolf’s tenure as director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. “Marshall inspired in me a passion for medicine and a passion for helping others become the best possible physicians and scientists,” Katz said. “To hold a position named for the man who has inspired and motivated my career is truly the highest honor I could hope for.”
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Medicine, presented Wolf and Katz with a framed photograph and chairs inscribed with “Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medicine.”