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.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship in Nanomaterials
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP, Philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading…
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship in Exoplanetary Physics
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP, Philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading…
CLYDE FRANKLIN WILLIAMS and RUTH E. (Gatton) WILLIAMS, made an estate gift to Johns Hopkins that enabled the creation of an endowed professorship as well as a scholarship in their names. Mr. Williams served as an infantry staff sergeant in the U.S. Army during WWII. He and Ruth married in…
Anne Gaines and G. Thomas Miller Endowed Professorship
ANNE G. and G. THOMAS “Tom” MILLER, members of “The Greatest Generation”, were married for sixty-three years. From the outset, a strong commitment to community and public service was a hallmark of their remarkable union. Tom Miller was a United States Army officer in WWII and the Korean conflict. He…
D. William Schlott, MD, Professorship in Clinical Medicine
D. WILLIAM SCHLOTT, MD, is the former Philip A. Tumulty Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was the first to hold the Tumulty chair. He has spent his fifty-plus year career at Hopkins: as a medical student, an intern and…
The Jules Edlow, M.D. and Joan Edlow Endowed Fund in Diabetes
David E. Trueblood said, “A man has at least made a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he will never sit.” Through this magnanimous legacy gift, JULES B. EDLOW has planted trees whose shade will benefit millions of people who suffer from diabetes…
Two King Fahd Professorships, one in molecular medicine and the other in pediatric oncology, represent the mutual interest and support between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States. The nation was governed since 1982 by KING and PRIME MINISTER FAHD BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AL SAUDI. King Fahd, the…
Raj and Kamla Gupta Professorship in Infectious Diseases
RAJ L. GUPTA has served as Chairman of APTIV PLC since March 2015 (formerly Delphi Automotive PLC). From 1999 - 2009, Mr. Gupta was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas and held a variety of posts at the company beginning in 1971. He was elected a vice…
Johns Hopkins Family Professorship for Oncology Research
JAMES E.T. HOPKINS, great-great-nephew of Johns Hopkins, is a 1941 alumnus of the School of Medicine and a 1937 graduate of what is now the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Born and raised in Maryland, Dr. Hopkins left his surgical practice at Hopkins Hospital in 1942 to volunteer…
RONALD R. PETERSON is president emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Health System and special advisor to the dean/CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Mr. Peterson stepped down on December 31, 2017, after 44 years of service to Johns Hopkins and 21 years in the dual roles of president of the Johns…
