The Ernest F. Rosato–William Maul Measey Professorship of Surgical Education
The family of Ernest F. Rosato, MD, his colleagues and friends, the Department of Surgery, and the Measey Foundation established the Professorship in 2013.
An exemplary teacher and surgeon, Dr. Rosato (1936–2012) graduated from the Perelman School of Medicine in 1962 and completed his internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). He spent his entire 50-year career at HUP, where he served as Chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery from 1988 to 2004.
Dr. Rosato was recognized by his Penn colleagues with the I.S. Ravdin Master Clinician Award. His honors also included the Humanitarian Award from the Friends of the American Cancer Society, a tribute to the care and consideration he showed the thousands of cancer patients he treated.
Dr. Rosato’s teaching recognitions included the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and selection for the William Inouye Award for Teaching 18 times. The Inouye Award is presented by surgical chief residents to a faculty member “whose leadership, caring attitude, and surgical judgment has been an exemplary model to the surgeon in training.”
William Maul Measey (1875–1967), an alumnus of the University’s Law School Class of 1898, became a distinguished corporate attorney in Philadelphia. He created the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation in 1958 to honor the memory of his parents. Since the Foundation supports several colleges, universities, schools of medicine, and hospitals in the Philadelphia area, the Measey name has become synonymous with the furtherance of medical education in the region.
Current Chairholder
Jon B. Morris, MD
Jon B. Morris, M.D. is currently the Ernest F. Rosato- William Maul Measey Professor in Surgical Education and Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A 1979 summa cum laude graduate from Saint Joseph’s University, Dr. Morris would subsequently attend the Georgetown University School of Medicine (class of 1983) and take his surgical training at Case Western Reserve University Integrated Hospitals (1983 – 1990) to include at two year research fellowship at the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center (1985 – 1990).
Since his recruitment to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in 1990, Dr. Morris has spent his entire clinical career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with the exception of two years as Surgeon-In-Chief at Abington Memorial Hospital (2001 – 2003). Dr. Morris has dedicated his academic career to medical education and is the former Program Director for the General Surgical Residency at HUP (2003 – 2018) and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Perelman School of Medicine (2005 – 2020). Active in surgical practice and widely published, Dr. Morris is a past President of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (2014-2015). He has been recognized as a Top Doc in Philadelphia Magazine eight times and has received a number of awards throughout his career for teaching excellence to include the Chief Resident Teaching Award at the University Hospitals of Cleveland (1990), the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindack Foundation Award at the University of Pennsylvania (1997), the Blockley-Osler Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at Temple University School of Medicine(2003), the Edward C. Bradley, S.J., M.D. ’51 Medical Alumni Award at St. Joseph’s University (2015), the Ernest F. Rosato Teaching Award at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2012 and 2018), the Robert Dunning Dripps Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education (2019) and inducted into the Perelman School of Medicine Minority Hall of Fame (2021). In 2021, at Department of Surgery initiated the annual Jon B. Morris Faculty Teaching Award given to the surgical faculty member whose clinical instruction and mentorship has been most instrumental in enriching the learning environment and development of junior surgical residents. Dr. Morris is the Founding Director and currently the Advisory Council Chair for the Center for Surgical Health.