JAMES T. DRESHER JR. has been a successful business owner in the Baltimore region since 1972. He is Founder, CEO and Principal of Skye Asset Management LLC, a private investment company. Skye has investments in several industries including banking, biotech, and healthcare supply chain management.
Earlier in his career Jim and his brother-in-law, Tony Meoli, owned and operated a portfolio of McDonald’s restaurants. In 1994 Jim founded Skye Hospitality, a private entity that developed, owned, and managed ten Hilton and Marriott-branded hotels in the Baltimore region. The hotel company was sold in 2012. Since then, Jim has lead Skye Asset Management.
Jim has served on the board of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since 1999 and is Past-Chairman. He also serves on the boards of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health System, and John Hopkins Medicine where he chairs the Nominating Committee.
PATTI DRESHER is co-founder and partner at Katherine’s Keepers, a home care company in Harford County. Patti is the mother of two children and two stepchildren. She enjoys spending time with their 6 grandchildren and hosting the family on their farm. Patti is Past-President of The Dresher Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Harford Day School.
Jim and Patti own Glenangus Farm in Bel Air, Maryland where they raise Thoroughbred horses.
The Dresher Foundation was established in 1989 as a private family foundation by James and Virginia Dresher. Philanthropy was central to who they were as individuals, and they understood how it could lead to hope and opportunity for their fellow man. Three generations later, the opportunity – and the responsibility – to use the Foundation’s resources wisely for the good of society is the legacy Jim and Virginia left to the family they loved. Today, the Foundation is governed by a fourteen-member Board of Trustees, including Jim and Virginia’s children, their spouses, and seven grandchildren.
THE DRESHER FOUNDATION provides meaningful financial assistance to qualified nonprofit organizations located primarily in Harford County, Maryland. Priority funding initiatives focus on programs that address vital health, education, and human service needs, along with civic and cultural opportunities. By empowering nonprofits with the support, they need, the Foundation continues to create positive change in the community we call home.
Held by Samuel C. Durso
SAMUEL C. DOURSO, M.D., M.B.A., is the inaugural Jim and Patti Dresher and Dresher Foundation Professor, Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine for the Johns Hopkin Bayview Medical Center.
Dr. Durso obtained his medical degree with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1978, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He earned his M.B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School in 2007. Following residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama Teaching Hospitals in Birmingham, he practiced briefly in his hometown, Port Arthur, TX, before forming a group practice in Columbia, SC, with three other internists. There, Dr. Durso helped found the Columbia Free Medical Clinic for which he was recognized by the Columbia Medical Society for his years of service as its voluntary medical director.
In 1995 he was recruited to Johns Hopkins by Dr. John Burton, then Director of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, to lead several new clinical and educational programs for the Division. Dr. Durso served the Division in multiple capacities, including Geriatric Fellowship Training Program Director and Clinical Director.
In 2010, Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, then Chair of the Department of Medicine, appointed Dr. Durso Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. In that role he expanded the training programs, made critical strategic faculty recruitments, and greatly increased philanthropic support for the Division’s academic mission. In recognition of his leadership, Dr. Mark Anderson, Chair of the Department of Medicine, appointed Dr. Durso to his current leadership roles.
Dr. Durso is nationally and internationally recognized for his clinical and teaching excellence. In 1999, he received the Clinician of the Year Award from the American Geriatrics Society, and in 2009 received the Dennis W. Jahnigen Award for national leadership in geriatric medical education from that society. He received the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award in 1997, given each year to the outstanding teacher in the School of Medicine. From 2010 through 2020 he was appointed to the Mason F. Lord Professorship in Geriatric Medicine and in 2021 was name the inaugural Jim and Patti Dresher and Dresher Foundation Professor.
Dr. Durso has authored 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Reichel’s Care of Elderly 8th Edition (Cambridge University Press; 2022) and Editor-in-Chief for the online journal, Current Geriatric Reports (Springer-Nature Publishing).
JAMES T. DRESHER JR. has been a successful business owner in the Baltimore region since 1972. He is Founder, CEO and Principal of Skye Asset Management LLC, a private investment company. Skye has investments in several industries including banking, biotech, and healthcare supply chain management.