Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed professorships have a personal and lasting impact.
G. Sayeed Choudury
Mr. Choudhury, who holds the Hodson Directorship in Digital Research, was appointed associate director of the Sheridan Libraries digital programs in 2003.
Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.
Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.
Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.
Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
JELANI CHINELO ZARIF, Ph.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Zarif is also a member of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. The Zarif laboratory studies molecular mechanisms by immune cells within the tumor microenvironment that…
ERIC TYRELL OLIVER, M.D., joined the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology as an instructor of medicine in July 2015. He was born and raised in South Carolina and graduated from Duke University as dual major in biology and religion and a music minor. He earned his M.D. from the University…
RITU AGARWAL, PhD, is the inaugural William P. Carey Distinguished Professor at the Carey Business School. She was previously a Distinguished University Professor and the Chair of Information Systems at the University Of Maryland Smith School Of Business, as well as the Founding Director of the Center for Health Information…
MARY E. FISSELL, Ph.D., is a professor of history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with appointments in the History of Science and Technology and History departments. She’s a historian of medicine interested in how ordinary people in the past lived in their bodies. Everyone is…
HAMID HASSANZADEH, M.D., joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in February 2022. He is the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery for Johns Hopkins Medicine in the National Capitol Area, and Co-Director of Spine Surgery Fellowship. He earned a Baccalaureate degree from the Mümmelmannsberg School in Hamburg, Germany, followed by a medical…
ALBERT W. WU, MD, MPH, is the Fred and Julie Soper Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Wu is a practicing general internist who joined the Bloomberg School in 1990. He is a leader in the field of health services research studying the impact of safety…
KONSTANTINOS KONSTANTOPOULOS, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He holds secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, and is a faculty member in the Institute for NanoBio Technology (INBT). Konstantopoulos’ research is at…
SHARON GERECHT, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), is an internationally recognized expert in vascular and stem cell biology and engineering. Gerecht’s research group studies the interactions between stem cells and their microenvironments with the long-term goal of engineering…
TZA-HUEI (JEFF) WANG, Ph.D., is a professor in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, where he has served as faculty since 2002. He is the principal investigator for the BioMEMS and Single Molecule Dynamics Lab. Wang earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering from UCLA in 2002. His…
MEI WAN, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery where she serves on the Associate Professor Promotion Committee, and serves as the departmental research safety officer. Dr. Wan joined the department in 2009 and has had continuous independent research funding. She earned her undergraduate degrees and Ph.D.…
[caption id="attachment_3556" align="alignleft" width="300"] Francesco BianchiEconomics department faculty[/caption] FRANCESCO BIANCHI, Ph.D., is the Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University (effective July 2022), and a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the National…
L. FERNANDO GONZALEZ, M.D., is a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon trained in both open vascular surgery and minimally invasive endovascular approaches. He treats patients with vascular blockages, malformations and ruptures in the brain and spine, including aneurysms, strokes and arteriovenous malformations. He also specializes in delivering chemotherapy through the arteries of the…
