Dr. Kathleen Finn Appointed Louisa C. Endicott Professor of Medicine

Kathleen Finn, MD, MPhil, FACP, SFHM, has been appointed the Louisa C. Endicott Professor of Medicine by the Tufts University Board of Trustees.

“Named professorships are the highest honor that a university can bestow upon its faculty,” notes Helen Boucher, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine. “We are not only recognizing that Dr. Finn is at the forefront of her field, but we are securing our place as a learning community in the highest echelons of academic medicine.”

Dr. Finn joined the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine this past June as Vice Chair of Education, Program Director for the Medicine Residency Program, and Associate Professor. She came to Tufts from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as the Inpatient Associate Program Director and Senior Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program for 15 years.

Dr. Finn’s scholarship focuses on improving the training experience of medical students and residents, understanding methods to improve team approaches to patient care, addressing trainee evaluation, and supporting trainee wellbeing. Accolades for her contributions to medical education include the 2020 Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award and recognition in 2014 as one of the “Top 10 Hospitalists” by the American College of Physicians. She has received numerous grants for her education innovation efforts and, in 2015, was awarded a National Board of Medical Education Stemmler Education Research grant. In her new role at the School of Medicine, Dr. Finn has already begun to develop an exciting vision for the Department of Medicine’s residency program and to build upon its successes by forging new collaborations across Tufts Medicine and exploring expanded clerkship opportunities.

The Louisa C. Endicott Professorship in Medicine was endowed in 1950 by Samuel Clapp Endicott in memory of his mother, Louisa. Samuel was a musician and composer who served as an interpreter for the Department of Justice during World War I and later as head of the language department at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.