“These achievements have happened because everybody pulled together — faculty, staff, and students. The past several years have been really trying, and many distractions and obstacles have been put in our way. But we have not faltered, we have flourished.”

 — Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

“It is the honor of my life to lead UMB. It is an honor to be challenged every day to lead it in a way that brings pride to all of you who have chosen to learn and work here, all of you who carry out our mission to heal, cure, and strengthen; to save lives, enrich communities, advance justice, and promote the rule of law.”

 — Jay A. Perman, MD

“When people talk to me about what UMB means to them, they don’t talk to me about our research enterprise — the grants and contracts we win — or the number of professionals we graduate. Instead, they talk to me about their sister, their mother, their friend [whom we helped]. They rarely talk to me about the diploma they saw on their provider’s wall, but they do talk to me about how that provider made them feel — important, reassured, worth listening to, worth caring about.”

 — Jay A. Perman, MD

"UMB leads through action. We lead by doing, not by saying. We lead by a consuming conviction that our work matters. That knowledge matters. That science matters. That service matters. That justice matters. That truth matters." — Jay A. Perman, MD

“It’s been a busy year — to me, a deeply rewarding year — and, I believe, a watershed year for uniting around the cause that has come to define UMB: improve the human condition and serve the public good.”

President Jay A. Perman

“When our excellence shows, people notice. And they want to be with us, on the front lines — dismantling structural poverty and inequity; applying their scholarship and their service to solving the most challenging problems we confront as a society; making Maryland and the world more just, more enlightened, healthier, and more humane."

President Jay A. Perman

"At my inauguration, I could only look forward and tell you of my aspirations for our University’s future. I now stand before you again, this time with the opportunity to review what we have accomplished through collaboration and teamwork, and what we intend to do. … UMB has accomplished much — but much remains to be accomplished. And we must put our heads together."

President Jay A. Perman