Bromberg Investiture Program

JONATHAN S. BROMBERG, MD, PHD
Jonathan S. Bromberg, MD, PhD is a professor
in the Departments of Surgery and Microbiology
and Immunology at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. Dr. Bromberg earned his AB
in Biology from Harvard College in 1977 and his
MD from Harvard Medical School and PhD from
the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
in 1983. He has held numerous positions
throughout his career, including Instructor at the
University of Pennsylvania; Chief of Pancreas
Transplant, and Assistant to Associate Professor at the Medical University of South
Carolina; Chief of Liver Transplant and Associate to Full Professor at the University
of Michigan; Chief of Kidney Transplant and the Transplant Institute and Professor
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has been a Professor at UMSOM since 2010,
variously serving as Division Chief for Transplantation, Chief of Kidney Transplant,
Chief of Pediatric Kidney Transplant, and Vice Chair for Research in the
Department of Surgery.
For 30 years, Dr. Bromberg has received continuous funding for his research and
practice in basic cellular and molecular transplant immunology. His basic research
has consistently focused on T-cell immunobiology, and for more than 20 years has
also focused on issues of migration, trafficking, secondary lymphoid organ structure
and function, and lymphatic structure and function, and how these processes and
structures influence T-cell immunity and T-cell tolerance in models of
transplantation.
Dr. Bromberg has maintained an active clinical practice in solid organ
transplantation and is thus constantly exposed to the problems of patients and their
immune systems, including cellular and humoral rejection, opportunistic infections,
chronic viral disease, autoimmune organ failure, and side effects of
immunosuppression medication.
Dr. Bromberg’s research has delved into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of
suppression and tolerance. These investigations have resulted in over 300 peerreviewed
publications, numerous international and national presentations, and
currently four primary NIH RO1s or PO1s in the lab along with another five RO1s in
which he is a co-investigator. His numerous awards and honors include a NIAID
MERIT Award, National Kidney Foundation of Maryland Kidney Champion, and
American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Established Investigator Award.
Dr. Bromberg is a much sought-after editor, currently serving as the Transplantation
Clinical Sciences Executive Editor. He has also served on multiple NIH study
sections and advisory boards, and serves for many grant and award committees for
foundations and governmental boards in the United States and the European Union.

WELCOME
Mary Pooton
Associate Dean for Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Christine L. Lau, MD, MBA
Dr. Robert W. Buxton Chair of Surgery
University of Maryland School of Medicine
REMARKS
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, UM Baltimore
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
DONOR RECOGNITION
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
REMARKS
Dianne Kendrick
Dr. Charles Reid Edwards’ Granddaughter
SPEAKERS
Bruce Kaplan, MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Medical and Scientific Director
Colorado Center for Transplantation Care, Research and Education (CCTCARE)
University of Colorado
Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD
Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre
Professor of Medicine & Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Alberta
Jeremy Chapman, AC, FRACP, FRCP, FAHMS
Professor, Sydney University
Editor in Chief Transplantation Journals
Chair, Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry,
Chair, Westmead Research Hub Sydney
MEDAL PRESENTATION
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
REMARKS
Jonathan S. Bromberg, MD, PhD
The Charles Reid Edwards, MD Professor of Surgery
CLOSING REMARKS
Christine L. Lau, MD, MBA

T
he first endowed professorships were established more than
500 years ago with the creation of the Lady Margaret chairs
in divinity at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The
original endowed chairs were sponsored by Lady Margaret,
countess of Richmond, and grandmother of Henry VIII in 1502.
Subsequently, private individuals began making financial contributions
to establish other endowed professorships and chairs such as the
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, which Sir Isaac Newton held beginning
in 1669. Professor Stephen Hawking, the internationally renowned
physicist and recipient of the 2010 US Medal of Freedom, was another
prominent holder of this endowed chair.
The honor associated with appointment to an endowed position has
remained unchanged for the last 500 years and is recognized as one of
the highest tributes that an academic institution can bestow upon its
most distinguished faculty. These endowed professorships and chairs
continue to reward exceptional scholars uninterrupted to the present
time.
The Office of Development is charged with securing private gifts to
ensure the School’s tradition of excellence is sustained through robust
research, clinical, and educational programs and initiatives. The
University of Maryland School of Medicine is fortunate to have nearly
85 endowed chairs & professorships in various stages of completion
and held by esteemed faculty members.

Charles Reid Edwards, MD
Charles Reid Edwards was born in Medley,
West Virginia in 1888. As was common at that
time, he entered medical school directly after
graduating from high school in Adamstown,
Maryland. Dr. Edwards graduated from the
University of Maryland School of Medicine in
1913, followed by an internship and residency,
which included acting as resident surgeon of the
then 62-bed Kernan Hospital. Dr. Edwards entered the Army in 1917 and
served at Hospital Central in Belfort, France. Upon discharge he returned to
the University of Maryland School of Medicine, becoming Clinical Professor
of Surgery in 1931 and Professor of Surgery and Acting Head of the
Department of Surgery from 1948 until 1955.
Dr. Edwards is remembered as a dexterous, rapid and almost faultless
surgeon in the operating room, and an imposing, capable and confident
physician. Dr. Edwards’ 15 medical papers dealt with clinical problems: his
interest and his strength as a teacher lay in clinical training and clinical
experience; his bedside teaching was thought by his peers to be unsurpassed.
He was a Fellow of the Southern Surgical Association and the American
College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Association of Trauma,
the American Medical Association, and the Society for Clinical Surgery. In
1957, the University of Maryland Medical Alumni Association awarded the
Gold Key Award to Dr. Edwards for his contributions to medicine and his
distinguished service to mankind.
In 1962, Dr. Edwards chaired a committee whose work resulted in the
reorganization of the Baltimore City Health Department. He continued in
private practice until several years before his death in 1965. His great
capacity for work, his fine intuition, and his tactfulness and truthfulness as a
surgical consultant brought him many friends among both physicians and
patients. (Excerpt: University of Maryland Medical Alumni Association
Bulletin, Professors of Surgery 1807-1970, written by Harry Hull, MD '32)

Alston Gordon Lanham, MD
Alston Gordon Lanham was born in Upshur,
West Virginia and attended the University of
West Virginia for the first two years of college.
He transferred to the University of Maryland
School of Medicine in 1929 and graduated in
1931, the same year that Dr. Charles Reid
Edwards was made Clinical Professor of
Surgery. Following graduation, Dr. Lanham completed his internship at
University Hospital. He then returned to his roots in Ronceverte, West Virginia,
as a general practitioner.
Dr. Lanham was one of several Ronceverte physicians associated with the
Greenbrier Hospital, which was awarded the highest rating from the American
College of Surgeons in 1937 and where, Dr. Lanham is remembered as one of
several physicians of the "highest experience." He later centered his medical
practice in the nearby town of Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Dr. Lanham was married to Katharine Irene Lough (Katie) in 1933. Mrs. Lanham
received a Bachelor's Degree in Music at West Virginia University where she
was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, University Choir, Girls' Glee Club and
Phi Chi Delta.
Dr. Lanham passed away in 1972 and Mrs. Lanham passed away in 1988. The
Charles Reid Edwards Professorship was established through the Lanham Family
Residual Trust and made known to the University of Maryland School of
Medicine in 2011.