Stories of Giving

David and Diana McManus met when they sat next to one another on interview day at UMass Chan Medical School in 1998. Graduates of the Class of 2002, they are celebrating their 20th reunion year this year.

Community has been a driving force for Maxim Pekarev MD’13 throughout his plastic surgery career. The founder of MP Plastic Surgery, “Dr. Max”—as he’s known to his patients—finds helping his Fort Worth, Texas, neighbors to be the most rewarding part of his practice.

For the first time in its 23-year history, October’s UMass Cancer Walk and Run took place at a new location and its main objective remained as clear and strong as ever – to raise funds supporting adult and pediatric cancer research and care, and clinical trials of potentially life-saving therapies underway at UMass Chan Medical School.

The UMass Chan Medical School community officially launched the 2021-2022 academic year with Convocation and Investiture events in September, on campus and in-person.

On September 7, 2021, the University of Massachusetts announced a history-making $175 million donation from The Morningside Foundation and the Chan family to UMass Medical School.

The Eagles Autism Foundation has awarded $400,000 to a UMass Medical School research team led by David M. Cochran, MD, PhD, to study a biomarker-driven pharmacological treatment for autism spectrum disorder.

Wagner Automotive Group of Shrewsbury has donated the lease of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van to assist UMMS Vaccine Corps volunteers in delivering COVID-19 vaccines to special populations in Massachusetts.

Thanks to a grant from DCU for Kids, the charitable arm of Digital Federal Credit Union, Jessica Griffin of the UMMS Child Trauma Training Center can develop video training tools for parents.

In mid-May 2011, the late Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci kicked off what was perhaps the most important campaign of his life: a fundraising effort at UMMS to fight the devastating disease that would eventually take his life: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Generous grant supports services provided by the Foster Child Evaluation Services (FaCES) program at UMass Medical School to area families