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.
An expert in immunobiology, EDWARD PEARCE investigates the role of cellular metabolism in immune cell function and fate during infection and cancer in order to identify ways to inhibit or promote metabolic pathways to manipulate immune responses. Pearce’s long-term goal for this work is modulating metabolic processes for therapy. Pearce’s…
HANNA PICKARD, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and bioethics. Her research centers on how society responds to maladaptive behaviors like crime or drug use. She is a leading applied philosopher in the fields of moral psychology and the philosophy of psychiatry. Through her applied approach to research, Pickard explores…
LINGXIN HAO, Ph.D., the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy, is a sociologist whose research examines the causes and mechanisms of inequality in child development, education, income, consumption, wealth, and health among individuals and families in the United States and China. Her research involves multi-disciplinary collaborations, applies advanced…
FASIKA A. WORETA, M.D., M.P.H. is a cornea and cataract specialist and the Eugene de Juan, M.D. Professor of Ophthalmic Education at Wilmer Eye Institute’s Baltimore and Columbia locations. Her expertise is in in corneal and external eye diseases, including complex cataracts and anterior segment reconstruction following trauma. Dr. Woreta…
THOMAS JOHNSON III, M.D., Ph.D., the inaugural recipient of the Allan and Shelley Holt Rising Professorship, is on a mission to turn findings in the lab into therapies that will dramatically improve the lives of patients. He leads a translational neuroscience laboratory that focuses on stem cell transplantation to regenerate…
AMIR H. KASHANI, M.D., Ph.D., is a retina specialist and surgeon. Dr. Kashani specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of medical and surgical retinal diseases including diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusions, age-related macular degeneration, epiretinal membranes and retinal detachments as well as other common retinal diseases. Dr. Kashani is an…
ELIA J. DUH, M.D., a professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, specializes in diseases of the retina, including diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Duh actively researches the molecular mechanisms underlying diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration, particularly the process of ocular…
WENDY S. POST, M.D., M.S., is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and Director of Research for the Hopkins Division of Cardiology. She also serves as the Director of the Hopkins field center for the NIH- funded Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Wendy first arrived at Johns Hopkins…
CAROLE FAKHRY, MD, MPH, serves as Executive Vice Director of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery, and Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center. She is a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Oncology and…
DANIEL E. POLSKY, Ph.D., is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. From 1996-2016 he was on the faculty at the…
DAEYEOL LEE, Ph.D., is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Seoul National University in Korea and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then received a postdoctoral training…
FILIPE CAMPANTE, Ph.D., is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and at the Department of Economics at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Vice Dean for…
