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.
William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
WILLIAM KURRELMEYER, A&S 1896, 1899 (PhD), who joined the Hopkins faculty in 1900 and remained for more than 40 years, molded the German program, and made Hopkins an international center for German scholarship. Dr. Kurrelmeyer's fields of study included the history of aesthetics, lyric poetry, narrative theory, and the periods…
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, is a professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute and Dean Emeritus and professor of epidemiology and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was the founding Director (1980-1990) of the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins, which focuses on…
David L. Guyton, M.D. and Feduniak Family Professorship in Ophthalmology
ROBERT B. FEDUNIAK was born in San Francisco and raised in Southern California. He graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and physics in 1969, and then received a master’s degree in physics from the University of California Berkeley in 1971. He switched careers in 1972 and moved…
Alan C. Woods, M.D., Professorship in Ophthalmology
ALAN CHURCHILL WOODS, A&S 1910, Med 1914, was the second director of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute. It was one of Dr. Woods' early patients who proposed and made possible the creation of a large center for ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins, along with patients of William H. Wilmer--the institute's first director…
Frank B. Walsh Professorship in Neuro-Ophthalmology
FRANK B. WALSH has been called one of the most distinguished ophthalmologists of the 20th century. With the publication of a landmark text in 1947, Dr. Walsh created the specialty of clinical neuro-ophthalmology, which concentrates on the diagnosis and care of patients with nervous system disorders that affect the eye…
Cumberland, Maryland, businessman LEWIS J. ORT devoted exceptional energy to improving his community and state, having chaired and served on scores of boards from the Shriners, where he spearheaded establishment of a burn treatment center in Santo Domingo, to the Maryland Advisory Committee on Economic Development. After treatment at the…
MARGARET C. MOSHER, who died in 2002, was a businesswoman and philanthropist from Santa Barbara, California. She was a member of the Wilmer Eye Institute Advisory Council with many ties to the institute. In addition to the establishment of the Margaret C. Mosher Professorship in Ophthalmology by her estate in…
A. EDWARD MAUMENEE, an international leader in the prevention and cure of blindness, for many years headed the Wilmer Eye Institute and was the William Holland Wilmer Professor of Ophthalmology. He received scores of professional awards, including the 1970 Lucian Howe Gold Medal from the American Medical Association. Dr. Maumenee…
The Zanvyl Krieger Professorship in Pediatric Ophthalmology
ZANVYL KRIEGER, A&S 1928, celebrated his close friendship with the late university President Emeritus Milton S. Eisenhower by providing for the eventual creation of the Krieger-Eisenhower professorships--part of his record-setting 1992 endowment gift to the School of Arts and Sciences, which was named in his honor in 1995. Mr. Krieger…
The INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS is a fraternal organization dedicated to fellowship among its members, social welfare, and the care of the sick and poor. The first Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodges are mentioned in records dating back to 1748 in England. The North American Independent Order of…
KARL H. HAGEN, who developed age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in 1993, was a philanthropist and pioneer who did not allow his vision impairment to keep him from endowing one of the nation’s first professorships in the field of macular degeneration. He made generous contributions in the form of planned gifts, including…
