Calia Chen Program FINAL

Investiture Ceremony
Awarding
WILBUR H. CHEN, MD, MS
Frank M. Calia, MD Professorship
Westminster Hall • Baltimore, Maryland
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

WILBUR H. CHEN, MD, MS
Wilbur H. Chen, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA is a
Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine, Chief of the Adult Clinical
Studies section of the Center for Vaccine
Development and Global Health, and Director of the
UMB Travel Medicine Practice.
Dr. Chen completed medical school at Howard
University College of Medicine, training in internal
medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center,
and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the
University of Maryland Medical Center. He then
completed a fellowship in vaccinology at the Center
for Vaccine Development and Global Health.
Dr. Chen conducts clinical and translational research on pathogens of global health
importance, concentrating on those which primarily afflict vulnerable populations and
developing countries. His research portfolio includes developing vaccines against
diarrheal and enteric diseases, such as cholera, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC),
noroviruses, Shigella, Campylobacter, and typhoid and non-typhoidal Salmonella. He
was the principal investigator for the pivotal efficacy licensure studies for the only
cholera vaccine available in the U.S. Dr. Chen has also lead vaccine trials against 2009
H1N1 pandemic and pre-pandemic influenza (Avian H5N1 and Avian H7N9 influenza)
and agents of bioterror, including tularemia, smallpox, and staphylococcal enterotoxin B.
He was a co-PI of the national 2009 H1N1 pandemic vaccine trial, through the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation
Unit.
Dr. Chen is internationally recognized for conducting human experimental challenge
studies with diarrheal pathogens. These closely monitored quarantine studies using wellcharacterized
infectious strains of selected pathogens are performed to gain new insights
into pathogenesis, the immune response, or provide early efficacy of candidate vaccines
or therapeutics. To complement his diarrheal disease research, Dr. Chen has research in
Bangladesh, a region commonly recognized as the ancestral origin of cholera. He also
has research in Mali, where his participation in the development of a pentavalent
meningococcal conjugate vaccine is anticipated to make major improvements in
meningitis for sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Chen is currently a voting member of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, member of NIAID’s Data
and Safety Monitoring Board, and steering committee member of the U.S. Army
Medical Research and Development Command’s Military Infectious Diseases Research
Program.

WELCOME
Heather S. Culp, JD
Senior Vice President
Chief Philanthropy Officer
University of Maryland Medicine
Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FACP
Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH Professor of Vaccinology
Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
Chief, Division of Geographic Medicine
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Maryland School of Medicine
REMARKS
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean
DONOR RECOGNITION
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
SPEAKERS
Alan S. Cross, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Grant D. Huang, MPH, PhD
Deputy Chief Research and Development Officer
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Gregory Wm. Branch, MD, MBA, CPE, FACP
Director and Health Officer
Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services
MEDAL PRESENTATION
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
REMARKS
Wilbur H. Chen, MD, MS
Frank M. Calia, MD Professor
CLOSING REMARKS
Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FACP

The Tradition of
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
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 Presidential 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.

FRANK M. CALIA, MD
Frank M. Calia, MD, MACP is a Professor Emeritus of the
University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a graduate of
Harvard University and a cum laude graduate of Tufts University
School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at
Boston City Hospital, and residency and fellowship in infectious
diseases at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. He served in
the United States Army at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Fort Detrick and attained the rank of Major. Dr. Calia is a member of
the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; the American
Clinical and Climatological Association; the American College of
Physicians; the Infectious Diseases Society of America and other
important medical societies. In April 2000, Dr. Calia was elected a
Master of the American College of Physicians. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal
Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine in Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Calia joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty in 1969 and was appointed
Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore VA Medical Center. He rose through the ranks to
professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, and Chief of the Medical Service at the
Baltimore VA Medical Center. On two occasions during his tenure at the University of Maryland he
has served as Acting or Interim Chairman of the Department of Medicine. He was also Acting
Chairman of the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology, Ophthalmology and Radiation Oncology.
From 1992-2004, Dr. Calia was Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the
School of Medicine. In April of 2004, he became Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Microbiology &
Immunology. From November 2004-November 2005 he served as Interim Chief Medical Officer at the
University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Calia returned to service in the School of Medicine as the
Theodore E. Woodward Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, as well
as Physician-in-Chief of the University of Maryland Medical Center in February 2006, a position he
held until December 1, 2009.
Between 1979 and 2004, Dr. Calia was honored by the medical students with 24 teaching awards, both
Golden Apple Awards and Teacher of the Year Awards. He has also been awarded Teacher of the
Year by the Maryland Higher Education Council (representing all colleges and universities in
Maryland) and Teacher of the Year by the University System of Maryland. In 2000, he received the
AOA Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical
Colleges. In 2008, he was elected as an inaugural member of the Pass and Susel Academy of
Academic Excellence and also won the University of Maryland Baltimore’s Founder's Day Teacher of
the Year award.
Dr. Calia has chaired many of the most important School of Medicine ad hoc and standing committees,
including the Faculty Promotions Committee, Curriculum Coordinating Committee, Academic
Advancement Committee, Curriculum Revision Steering Committee and the Appointment, Promotions
and Tenure Revision Committee. Additionally he has served on numerous search committees and on
all of the important committees of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University
of Maryland Medical System/Hospital.
Dr. Calia's major interests are in infectious disease, bacterial diarrhea, staphylococcal infections, vibrio
infections, bioterrorism and clinical pharmacology.
Dr. Calia serves on the Editorial Board of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Practice and the Editorial
Board of the University of Maryland Medical Alumni Association's Bulletin. He has contributed to 10
books and over 50 publications in refereed journals. He serves as a reviewer for the Journal of the
American Medical Association, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Annals of Internal Medicine, American
Journal of Medicine, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Infectious Disease in Clinical
Practice.

The Frank M. Calia, MD Professorship was made possible through the
generosity of many friends, colleagues, trainees, and organizations in
honor of Dr. Frank M. Calia including:
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Dr. David Christopher Barnes
Dr. James M. Boler
Dr. Karen Elizabeth Brown
Drs. David J. Cahill & Lisa J. Cahill
Dr. Michael A. Cushner
Dr. Peter E. Darwin
Mr. Brian J. DeFilippis
Dr. Louis J. DeTolla
Dr. Michael J. Dodd
Dr. Jeffrey S. Dubin
Dr. Albert H. Dudley III
Dr. Alan. I. Faden
Drs. Barbara B. Fleming & William James Fleming III
Dr. Claire M. Fraser
Dr. Carol S. Goundry
Dr. Bruce D. Greenwald
Mrs. Deborah F, Groleau & Dr. George E. Groleau
Dr. Angela S. Guarda
Dr. Lee J. Helman & Dr. Judith Falloon
Dr. Sharon M. Henry
Ms. Kim W. Hughes
Drs. James B. Kaper & Carol O. Tacket
Dr. David E. Kelley
Dr. Michael R. Kessler
Dr. Victor F. King
Drs. N. W. Koutrelakos & Susan M. Lancelotta
Dr. Morton D. Kramer
Dr. Susan M. Levy
Drs. Gail M. Liss & Robert A. Liss
Dr. Daniel M. Marder
Dr. Margaret M. McCarthy
Dr. Melissa A. McDiarmid
Dr. Jeffrey A. McLaughlin
Mercy Health Services
Dr. Christopher P. Moore
Dr. Stanley A. Morrison
Mr. Michael D. Moyer
Dr. Mary K. Newkirk
Dr. Harry A. Oken
Dr. Clayton A. Raab
Dr. Judith A. Racoosin
Dr. William F. Regine
Dr. R. Matthew Reveille
Dr. Roger J. Robertson
Dr. Edward Q. Rogers, Jr.
Dr. James F. Rooney & Mrs. Julie A. Rooney
Dr. Bruce Rosenberg
Dr. Thomas M. Scalea
Dr. Melvin Sharoky
Dr. Gary L. Simon & Mrs. Vickie E. Simon
Dr. Lisa Smith
Dr. Alfred D. Sparks
Dr. Harold C. Standiford
Dr. Mark L. Stillwell
Dr. Karen R. Teston
Dr. Richard F. Timmons
University of Maryland OB/GYN Associates, P.A.
University of Maryland Radiation
Oncology Associates, P.A.
Dr. Michael E. Weinblatt
Dr. Matthew R. Weir
Dr. Bennett E. Werner & Dr. Michelle Uhl
Dr. Pamela A. Wilson
Dr. Scott K. Winiecki
Dr. Gary Bruce Witkin
Dr. Stephen P. Yeagle & Dr. Susan Barrows
Dr. Julius David Zant & Mrs. Linda J. Zant