UCLA establishes endowed chair in honor of longtime faculty member Dr. Marjorie Fine

Dr. Catherine Juillard, who studies ways to improve surgical care in underresourced countries, has been named UCLA ’s first Marjorie Fine, M.D., Professor of Clinical General Surgery.Juillard, an associate professor in residence in the UCLA Department of Surgery, is co-director of theProgram for the Advancement of Surgical Equity.“An endowed chair is one of the greatest honors a faculty member can receive,” Juillard said. “It is so much more meaningful to me and my colleagues that the chair also honors the career of a trailblazer, Dr. Marjorie Fine.”Juillard has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 2018, and she is a UCLA alumna. She completed her medical training at theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA before earning a master ’s degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Juillard completed her residency in general surgery at UCLA and a fellowship in surgical critical care at UC San Francisco, followed by a faculty appointment at UCSF.The endowed chair was established with a generous gift of $1,068,885 in 2019 from Marjorie Fine and her husband, Arthur.Marjorie Fine is also a UCLA alumna: She graduated first in her class from the medical school in 1975, earning recognition for her surgical skills. She was the first woman to be admitted to and complete an internship and residency in the UCLA Department of Surgery, and she held faculty positions in the surgery department from 1980 to 2001 and from 2013 until her retireme...
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