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Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships

Endowed professorships have a personal and lasting impact.

  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Erin Aeran Chung, Department of Political Science

    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.

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  5. Ko Wang, Carey Business School

    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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. Federico M. Bandi, Carey Business School

    Federico M. Bandi is the inaugural appointee to the James Carey Endowed Professorship in Business at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

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Marjorie Bloomberg Tiven Professorship in Neurofibromatosis

SALLY GOTTESMAN is known for her passion, strategic thinking, warmth, and most of all, her commitment to creating a better world. In typical fashion, when Sally became interested in neurofibromatosis, NF1, she committed herself to increasing funding and catalyzing research in this disease. Thus, she became involved with the Children’s…

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David Zee, M.D. and Paul and Betty Cinquegrana Professorship

PAUL CINQUEGRANA loved Italy. So did his neurologist, David Zee. At his first appointment with Zee, in 2001, Cinquegrana learned that he had multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare neurological condition that shares many symptoms with Parkinson’s Disease. During their meetings in the years that followed, the pair would of…

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Erwin and Stephanie Greenberg Professorship of Urology

ERWIN L. GREENBERG is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corporation, developers of retail shopping centers in the Mid-Atlantic region and nationally based in Owings Mills, Maryland. STEPHANIE COOPER GREENBERG has had careers in banking, investment banking, small business ownership, fundraising and non-profit development in Boston, New Orleans,…

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Branna and Irving Sisenwein Professorship in Ophthalmology

BRANNA and IRVING SISENWEIN, both natives of New York and each living well into their 90’s, lived much of their long years inspired by the goal of eradicating blindness. Irv was in his 30’s when he was diagnosed with chorioretinitis and endured the successive loss of sight to total blindness…

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Leonard and Helen Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture

LEONARD STULMAN, A&S 1925, and his wife, HELEN R. STULMAN, made an impressive mark on their native Baltimore through both their business and their generous philanthropy. Mr. Stulman achieved great success in construction and real estate and supported the Jewish community, the arts, music, theater, and Johns Hopkins. In addition…

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Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professorship

ERIC SCHMIDT, former executive chairman of Alphabet Inc (formerly Google Inc.) has strong ties to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and to Bologna. His father Wilson Emerson Schmidt (pictured left) taught graduate courses in Economics and Development at the SAIS Bologna Center in the ’60s. Upon the…

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Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professorship

HENRY A. KISSINGER served as national security adviser and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He negotiated nuclear weapons and anti-ballistic missile treaties with the Soviet Union and laid the groundwork for President Nixon's breakthrough visit to China in 1972. He also negotiated for the United States…

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Fred H. Sanderson Professor

FRED SANDERSON was an economist with the Department of State for 28 years, served on two presidential commissions, and was a recipient of the Rockefeller Public Service Award. He was a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy and the Brookings Institution. He…

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Phoebe R. Berman Professorship of Bioethics and Public Health

PHOEBE RHEA BERMAN believed there was no better place than Johns Hopkins to address the ethical dilemmas raised by advances in medical discovery. “With all the complexities of modern life — new discoveries in science, changes in medicine and medical care — medical professionals and policy makers are faced with…

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James Carey Business Professorship

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Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professorship in Racial Politics & Criminal Justice

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…

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship in Planetary 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…

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