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.
GEORGE BERRY is a retired partner of Ernst & Young (now EY), one of the Big Four accounting firms. He spent his career serving as the firm’s principal audit executive to several publicly-owned, multinational clients, including Coca-Cola Enterprises and Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Atlanta and AmerisourceBergen Corporation in Philadelphia. He also…
Reta Honey Hiers Assistant Professorship in Tarlov Cyst Disease
MARY ELLEN PEASE and CHARLIE SCHEELER are lifelong Baltimoreans with two adult daughters, Alex and Cecelia. Mary Ellen is a dedicated public education advocate who has served in a variety of capacities for Baltimore County Public Schools, including PTA President, member of the Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee, and co-founder…
The Jennison-Novak Families Professorship in Neurosurgery
PETER JENNISON is a senior partner and portfolio manager at Edgewood Management in Greenwich, Connecticut and a member of Edgewood’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Edgewood in 2006, Peter was at W.P. Stewart & Co. for 16 years where he was a senior member of the US equity research and…
FRANK HINMAN, JR., MD was a renowned surgeon, genitourinary educator, and illustrator. His father, Frank Hinman, Sr., was the first trained urologist in California. Dr. Hinman was born on October 2, 1915, educated at Grant and Galileo public schools, and graduated from Stanford University with Great Distinction in 1937. Completing…
CONSTANCE and ALAN BUERGER, longtime supporters of Johns Hopkins, are the parents of two grown sons and grandparents of three granddaughters. The Buergers created Coventry, beginning this country’s secondary life insurance market. They reside in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania and divide their time between family, business and philanthropy. After their younger…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
