GI Lectureships
The Kaufman Lectureship in the Gastroenterology Division
In March 2002, Dr. David Kaufman passed away unexpectedly. At the time of his death, David was the secretary general of the Henry L. Bockus International Society of Gastroenterology and former president of the medical staff and chief of Internal Medicine at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey. David was also a recognized authority for inflammatory bowel disease in the northern New Jersey region.
Through the efforts of family, friends, and members of David Kaufman’s undergraduate class of 1952 and medical school class of 1956 at the University of Pennsylvania, the David Kaufman Memorial Funds were established at the School of Medicine. The endowed funds will support two important projects at the School: The Kaufman Lectureship in the Gastroenterology Department, and the Kaufman Global Health Initiative Travel Fund, in support of a groundbreaking program that sends medical students to under served communities around the globe.
To learn more about GI Lectureships or to make a gift to the Kaufman Global Health Initiative Travel fund in memory of David Kaufman, please contact William Bole, Senior Major Gifts Officer, Penn Medicine, 215-746-3005 or wbole@ben.dev.upenn.edu.
Inaugural Lecture:
2005
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Immunology Section
Yale University School of Medicine
2006
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD
Co-Director, Division of Immunology
Professor of Oncology, Immunology, and Cell and Molecular Medicine
The Dana and Albert Broccoli Professor of Oncology
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
“Genes, Vaccines, and Immune Checkpoints: Raising Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy”
The Charlotte and Irving Shapiro Lecture
The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Irving Shapiro (1916-2001) graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1941 and held a variety of government positions during and after World War II. In 1948, as a lawyer for the Justice Department, he won his first case before the Supreme Court. Three years later he joined DuPont's legal team. Mr. Shapiro grew intimately acquainted with the company during the lengthy General Motors-DuPont antitrust suit, and as the chief architect of the settlement won the trust of the du Pont family. Shapiro became assistant general counsel in 1965 and five years later was appointed to the Executive Committee. In July 1973 he became vice chairman, preparing the way for his succession to becoming Chairman and CEO in December 1973. Mr. Shapiro steered DuPont successfully through many issues in the 1970s. Under Mr. Shapiro's stewardship, DuPont expanded its overseas operations. Mr. Shapiro retired in 1981 but continued to practice law in Wilmington and provide counsel to DuPont into the 1990s.
Irving Shapiro, and his wife, Charlotte Shapiro, established in 1998 an annual lecture to highlight distinguished researchers within the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania.
The following is a list of the speakers of the Shapiro lectureship:
1998
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
University of Pennsylvania
1999
Ken Kinzler, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
2000
George Michaelopoulos, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
2001
Montgomery Bissell, MD
University of California at San Francisco
2003
Stefan Targan, MD
Cedars Sinai Hospital, UCLA
2003
Fiona Powrie, MD
University of Oxford
2005
Hans Clevers, PhD
Utrecht University
2006
Linheng Li, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
2007
Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School