The Paul F. Harron, Jr. Professorship

John Hansen-Flaschen

Created in 2007 by the Harron family, the Professorship honors Paul F. Harron, Jr.’s desire to support Penn Medicine’s lung center and his esteem for his physician John Hansen-Flaschen, MD. The chair is awarded to the Medical Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program in the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division of the Department of Medicine.

Through the Harron family’s gift of the Professorship and their 2014 gift to establish the Paul F. Harron, Jr. Lung Center, Penn Medicine has greatly increased the number of patients it serves with its comprehensive, expert, and well-coordinated approach to cystic fibrosis.

Paul F. Harron, Jr. (1942–2005) was President of his family’s media company, Harron Communications Corp. He was actively involved in the cable television industry throughout his life, including as a founding member of C-SPAN. Mr. Harron was posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010. In his memory, the Harron family has created a multidisciplinary center for the diagnosis and treatment of lung disorders and two professorships that bear his name.

 

Denis HadjiliadisCurrent Chairholder
Denis Hadjiliadis, MD

Denis Hadjiliadis, MD did his undergraduate studies at McGill University and completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto in 1995. He pursued training in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and in pulmonary and critical care at Duke University, where he also earned a Master of Health Sciences. He joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 2001, after further training in lung transplantation and cystic fibrosis.

Dr. Hadjiliadis joined the Perelman School of Medicine in 2005 and has been Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program since 2009 and an active member of the Penn Lung Transplant Program. He is an expert in cystic fibrosis and also manages patients before and after lung transplantation, mainly with cystic fibrosis.