151st Annual Meeting - December 4, 2026

The meeting will include the election of officers and directors of the Chamber as well as an update on the Chamber's Recruit, Retain and Incubate agenda. 

Sponsorship is available now. This event will sell out.

Keynote Speaker: David D. McManus, Chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School

Photo courtesy: Faith Ninivaggi
 

David D. McManus, MD’02, ScM’12, MBA, professor of medicine, renowned clinical and research cardiologist, and expert in digital medicine, is the chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. McManus was appointed  in April 2026 and began his tenure in June 2026.

He is the first alumnus to lead UMass Chan.

McManus is the founding director of UMass Chan’s Program in Digital Medicine and has secured more than $140 million in National Institutes of Health funding. He has published more than 400 scientific papers focused on digital health and cardiovascular care. Throughout his career, he has led efforts to train the next generation of healthcare innovators and researchers through programs funded by the NIH and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has advised and mentored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students, research staff, postdoctoral trainees and faculty members.

Notably, McManus was the principal investigator on the $123 million Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, grant, which was awarded by the NIH during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop innovative strategies for testing that proved essential to safeguarding community health and slowing disease spread. The RADx grant is the largest funding award in University of Massachusetts’ history.

McManus earned his MD from the T.H. Chan School of Medicine in 2002. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco before returning to UMass Chan, where he completed a cardiovascular medicine fellowship and a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship.