Twenty-four faculty members at the University of Chicago, Illinois, have received named professorships or were appointed as distinguished service professors, two of them are of Indian origin, the University announced on July 13.
In the Biological Sciences Division, Sonali M. Smith was selected as the first Elwood V. Jensen Professor in Medicine.
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Smith is the director of the lymphoma program and is an expert on lymphoma treatment and has made outstanding contributions to the field through clinical care,education and clinical research. She studies new agents and combinations in the management of both treatment-naïve and relapsed/refractory lymphomas. She is currently studying the role of stem cell transplantation for patients with high-risk follicular lymphoma.
Smith is the vice chair of the Southwest Oncology Group Lymphoma Committee, where she oversees the clinical trial development and mentors faculty. She chairs the American Society of Oncology’s Women in Oncology Subcommittee and is the incoming chair of ASCO’s Continuous Professional Development Committee.
She is the co-editor of ASCO’s Hematology and co-chair of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Lymphoma Working Group.
Smith is on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer. She is an elected fellow of Pritzker’s Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and a senior faculty scholar in the Bucksbaum Institute. She has more than 140 publications and lectures extensively to peers and patients nationally and internationally.
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From the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, Madhav Rajan was named as the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Accounting.
The dean of Chicago Booth, Rajan was most recently became senior associate dean at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he has held the Robert K. Jaedicke Chair in Accounting. His primary research interest is in the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues, especially as they relate to the choice of internal control and performance systems in firms.
He was editor of The Accounting Review and is co-author of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, that is considered as the leading cost accounting textbook used around the world.
Before joining Stanford in 2001, Rajan was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, Rajan has won the David W. Hauck Award, Wharton’s highest undergraduate teaching award. Earlier this year, he received the Robert T. Davis Award for lifetime achievement and service, the highest faculty recognition awarded by Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has held a visiting professorship at Chicago Booth in 2007-08.
By Premji
