Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed positions have a personal and lasting impact.
Natalia Trayanova, Biomedical Engineering
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.
The Sarah E. Allison Endowed Chair in Research and Self-Care
SARAH ELIZABETH ALLISON, Class of 1953, was an innovator who devoted her life and career to Dorothea Orem’s groundbreaking theories of patient self-care matched with nursing support to maximize healing. While a graduate student in Washington, DC, Allison began working with Orem on the latter’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory, bringing…
The Joseph S. and Esther Handler Professorship of Laboratory Research in Nephrology
More than 30 years after JOSEPH S. HANDLER, MD, began making land-mark discoveries about how the kidney works---and devised methods for analyzing the function of epithelial cells that line its filtration tubes, the trachea, ureter, esophagus and rectum---his findings and procedures remain the foundations for current kidney research. Dr. Handler…
DR. GEORGE E. BIGELOW is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and for more than four decades served as the leader and the director of the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is…
Catherine Ellen Poindexter Professorship in Cardiology
CATHERINE ELLEN POINDEXTER, the beloved daughter of Scott and Mary Claire, sister of Christian and Matthew, and granddaughter of Marilyn and Chris Poindexter and Claire McKenna, died at age 24 at Johns Hopkins Hospital Sept. 21, 2017 from Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare immune condition. Catherine was born September 14,…
SHEILA WEST, PhD, was the El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology and Vice Chair for Research at the Wilmer Eye Institute, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include trachoma, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and vision and function…
Eric Kobren Endowed Professorship in Applied Health Informatics
CATHERINE and ERIC KOBREN have a long history of supporting an academic, data-driven approach to children’s health. Catherine has devoted herself to improving and supporting pediatric health care. She was the founding chairwoman for A Woman’s Journey, an annual women’s health seminar, in Sarasota and continued as chairwoman to sellout…
Catherine Kobren Endowed Professorship in Patient Safety and Quality
CATHERINE and ERIC KOBREN have a long history of supporting an academic, data-driven approach to children’s health. Catherine has devoted herself to improving and supporting pediatric health care. She was the founding chairwoman for A Woman’s Journey, an annual women’s health seminar, upon its adoption in Sarasota and continued as…
Sol Goldman Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Drawn to Johns Hopkins when their mother Lillian passed away from pancreatic cancer, the Goldman Family of New York decided to take action against the disease that took their mother’s life. In 2005, they endowed the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins,…
PAUL ENGLUND received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1966. Following post-doctoral training at Stanford University in the Department of Biochemistry, he joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in 1968. In 2010 he retired and is now a Professor Emeritus. At Stanford, he worked…
Ms. MARCELLA E. WOLL made a generous bequest to the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and directed the funds to support the search for a cure for macular degeneration, a condition she suffered from in her lifetime. The MARYLAND E-NNOVATION INITIATIVE FUND (MEIF), administered by the Maryland Department of…
