Humes Visiting Professorship
The Visiting Professorships are a bequest by the estate of late AAF Trustee and Cornell Medical University graduate Dr. Jean Humes; in memory of her husband, John P. Humes, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and the first president of The American Austrian Foundation.
The AAF annually awards joint professorships to leading physicians in the United States and Austria, who have directed or co-directed at least one of the Open Medical Institute’s Salzburg Medical Seminars.
Since the program began in 1990, 39 Humes Visiting Professorships have been awarded in the areas of urology, molecular biology, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, cardiac surgery, radiology, neurology, anesthesiology, orthopedics, cardiology, otolaryngology, thoracic surgery, oncology, family medicine, infectious diseases, psychiatry, dermatology and ophthalmology.
The Humes Visiting Professorships led to the establishment of the Andlinger Residency Exchange Program in 2001.
This program supports the exchange of medical expertise and fosters relationships between medical establishments in the United States and Austria, and result in joint research and educational programs.
The award is a bilateral exchange and must be completed within five years of being accepted.
Humes Visiting Professors visit each other’s institutions and given (as a minimum) two lectures on cutting edge developments in their field, grand rounds with residents and attending physicians, and a session with case presentations. Recipients schedule the visit themselves and submit the schedule to the AAF for documentation purposes. Within the five year period, residents and attending physicians from the award recipients’ institutions should also visit each other through the Andlinger Residency Exchange (at least three participants from each institution.)
- The award is a bilateral exchange and must be completed within five years of being accepted.
- Humes Professors visit each other's institutions and give (as a minimum) two lectures on cutting edge developments in their field, grand rounds with residents and attending physicians and a session with case presentations.
- Humes Professors schedule the visit themselves and submit the schedule to the AAF for documentation purposes.
- Within the five year period, residents and attending physicians from the award recipients' institutions should also visit each other through the Andlinger program (at least three participants from each institution).