Worcester Homecoming

SPEAKERS Tim Garvin President and CEO, United Way of Central Massachusetts Tim Garvin has served the Central MA community with the United Way of Central MA, beginning in March 2006. In 2020 the United Way of Central MA was poised to celebrate its 100th year anniversary. Amidst the COVID pandemic, it quickly pivoted to support and assist with the organizing, leading, and facilitating of the Worcester Together Response Team. It then partnered with the Greater Worcester Community Foundation to establish the Worcester Together Fund, raising more $10 million dollars over five months and awarding 150 agencies with 'life-giving' funding. For his leadership and dedication to Central MA, Garvin was recently named as the recipient of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation's 18th annual Renaissance Award. Garvin serves a seventh term as the chair of the Council of Massachusetts United Ways. Prior to joining the United Way of Central MA, Garvin spent 19 years in leadership roles within non- profit agencies and was a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Jamaica, West Indies. Chancellor Michael F. Collins, MD UMass Chan Medical School Finance Committee Co-Chair, Worcester Homecoming Michael F. Collins, MD, a tenured professor of population & quantitative health sciences and medicine, was appointed chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2008. As chancellor, Dr. Collins oversees one of the most entrepreneurial medical schools in the nation, which is consistently recognized as a leader in student satisfaction, primary care training, basic science research, innovation and public service. He provides strategic management to a burgeoning enterprise that includes more than 5,100 employees; 1,300 graduate-level students; 620 medical residents and fellows; three schools; and one regional campus. UMass Chan Medical School generates $1 billion in annual revenues and operates a $400 million research portfolio. On Sept. 7, 2021, Dr. Collins announced a history-making $175 million donation from The Morningside Foundation – a transformational and unrestricted philanthropic gift that comes as the Medical School celebrates its 50th year of educating future physicians, nursing leaders and biomedical scientists. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS WORCESTER HOMECOMING 2022 34

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