The William Maul Measey President’s Distinguished Professorship of Medical Education
The Professorship was established in 2015 by the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation. The Chair honors William Maul Measey (1875–1967), an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1898, and will be awarded preference toward physicians and/or scientists focusing significantly on medical education.
William Maul Measey, a distinguished corporate attorney in Philadelphia, 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.
President’s Distinguished Professorships are awarded to eminent faculty members with research and teaching expertise in areas identified by the President of the University as high priorities. The creation of President’s Distinguished Professorships at the Perelman School of Medicine has been supported by the challenge gift of Penn University Trustees and Penn Medicine Board members George A. Weiss and Richard W. Vague.
Current Chairholder
Jennifer Kogan, M'95, RES'98, FEL'00
Jennifer Kogan, M’95, RES’98, FEL’00, is the Vice Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at the Perelman School of Medicine and the William Maul Measey President’s Distinguished Professor in Medical Education Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Kogan graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1991 where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated AOA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1995. She then completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine and a General Internal Medicine Clinician Educator Fellowship at Penn. She remained at Penn as a faculty member and was promoted to Professor of Medicine in 2016. Her prior roles at Penn have included Clerkship Director for the Internal Medicine Clerkship, Director for Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, and Associate Dean for Student Success and Professional Development. She founded and directed the Measey Medical Education Fellowship at Penn, the PSOM Medical Education Area of Concentration and the PSOM Primary Care Pathway Program. Dr. Kogan is a general internist who sees patients and precepts students in her office.
Dr. Kogan’s research is focused on assessment in medical education, particularly feedback, competency-based assessment, and developing and assessing the effectiveness of new approaches for faculty development in workplace-based assessment. She has published extensively in multiple medical education journals including Academic Medicine, Medical Education, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, the Journal of General Internal Medicine and JAMA. She has more than 98 invited lectures and presentations.
Dr. Kogan is a national leader in medical education. She previously served as President of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) and served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine. She collaborated for more than 10 years with the ACGME, doing research focused on rater training and faculty development. She has regularly taught in the ACGME’s assessment course for residency and fellowship program directors. She is also a Mentor for the National Board of Medical Examiners SEEF Fellowship Program and is on the Research Advisory Board for Intealth. Dr. Kogan was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2017. She was a faculty inductee in the Penn Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2022.
Previous Chairholders
- Gail Morrison, MD 2016-2024