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.
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…
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…
Phoebe R. Berman Professorship in 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…
The chair is made possible by a generous gift from the estate of RICHARD W. and ELIZABETH CASE. Mr. Case served for many years as a trustee both of the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute, and was a leading attorney at his firm, Smith, Somerville and Case. Through…
The Saul and Doris Farber Professorship in Clinical Care and Investigation in Pediatric Oncology
JOSHUA FARBER, MD, and his wife NANCY HARDY, MD, along with their friends and family, established the Saul and Doris Farber Professorship to honor the legacy of Josh’s parents, Saul and Doris, and to recognize the efforts of the faculty who worked to help their son Daniel win his battle…
The Knights Templar Eye Foundation Professorship in Ophthalmology
Founded in 1956, the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION (KTEF) has as its mission “to improve vision through research, education and supporting access to care.” The relationship between the Knights Templar Eye Foundation and the Wilmer Eye Institute dates to 1985, the year in which Alfred Edward Maumenee Jr., MD, established…
