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investitures Honoring the Col lege of Medicine's f ines t N 10 | WINT ER 2 011 COLLEGE REACHES NEW HEIGH AMED CHAIRS AND PROFESSORSHIPS carry a strong endorsement that a faculty member is an intellectual achiever, an excellent teacher and a dedicated learner. The Brilliant Futures campaign at the College of Medicine recognizes that faculty are the core resource for any college and continuously underscores the importance of investiture support in recruiting and retaining top-flight researchers and scholars. The college has succeeded as never before in this en- deavor during the last six months, adding 10 investitures to its previous list of 45. Five are in ophthalmology and visual sciences, three in psychiatry, one in surgery and one in medicine. In addition to the Berger-Colbeth Term Chair in Child Psychiatry, awarded to Mani Pavuluri, MD, PhD (see "Benefactors Share Pavuluri's Sense of Personal Mission," page 22), the College of Medicine is proud to announce this fall's investitures. For those who are interested in establishing a named chair or professor- ship that advances science and health care delivery in the College of Medi- cine, the Office of Medical Advancement can help. You may contact the office at (312) 996-4470, to discuss how to give this ultimate recognition. Morton F. Goldberg, MD, FACS, former chairman of the UIC Department of Ophthalmology, stands next to five faculty members who were invested on Oct. 17 (left to right): Jennifer I. Lim, MD; Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD; Jacob T. Wilensky, MD; Deepak Shukla, PhD; and Joel Sugar, MD. THE MARION H. SCHENK, ESQ., CHAIR AND PROFESSORSHIP IN OPHTHALMOLOGY FOR RE- SEARCH OF THE AGING EYE was awarded on Oct. 17 to two faculty members: Jennifer I. Lim, MD, and Deepak Shukla, PhD. Lim, profes- sor of ophthalmology and director of the retina service, treats and performs research on patients with a variety of vitreoretinal disorders such as age- related macular degeneration, and she edits the leading ophthalmology textbook, Age-Related Macular Degen- eration. Shukla, associate professor of ophthalmology and microbiology and immunology, and director of the ocular virology laboratory, studies the molecular mechanisms of virus entry into human corneal cells, in particular the ocular herpes virus, HSV-1. THE JOEL SUGAR, MD, PROFES- SORSHIP IN OPHTHALMOLOGY, established thanks to numerous donors who gave in his honor, was awarded on Oct. 17 to Joel Sugar, MD. A 35- year veteran of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Sugar, professor of ophthalmology, has focused his research on patients with cornea and external diseases whose lives have been devastated and whose clinical options have been heretofore limited. THE JACOB T. WILENSKY, MD, PROFESSORSHIP IN OPHTHAL- MOLOGY, established thanks to numerous donors who gave in his honor, was awarded on Oct. 17 to