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.
Diana Sylvestre, M.D. & Charles Homcy M.D. Professorship
Dr. DIANA SYLVESTRE, who is joining us virtually today, is a physician-researcher and faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco. Her career research has focused on improving the health outcomes of people affected by addiction, specifically in the treatment of hepatitis C. She has made important contributions to…
Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt Professorship in the Osler Medical Residency Program
Dr. J. MARIO MOLINA is a healthcare entrepreneur, endocrinologist, and philanthropist, best known for his tenure of over 20 years as chairman and chief executive officer of Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH), a Fortune 200 company he and his family founded in the 1980’s. He is currently chairman of the board…
León Troper, M.D. Professorship in Computational Pathology
LEÓN TROPER, M.D. (1935-1995) was a renowned pathologist and professor who made significant contributions to Costa Rican medicine. Born in Costa Rica on January 20, 1935, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1960. His career spanned three decades, during which he served as head of the…
Susan Hill Ward Professorship in Psychedelics and Consciousness
SUSAN WARD (nee HILL,) was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1936. Wilmington was home base for most of her life between considerable travel and education. Beginning in 1954, she attended Wellesley College for three years where she majored in English literature and was a Wellesley Scholar. Several years later she…
The Moody D. Wharam Jr., M.D., Professorship in Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Having served as Professor of Radiation Oncology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, and Radiologic Science, as well as Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins from 1994 - 2000, DR. MOODY WHARAM’s seminal contributions to pediatric radiation oncology fundamentally shaped the modern management of childhood cancers.…
Thomas M. Zizic, M.D. Professorship in Rheumatology and Immunology
Dr. THOMAS M. ZIZIC received his undergraduate degree in biology and psychology. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin in 1961. He received his MD, with the class of 1965, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He remained at Johns Hopkins to complete his internship…
STEPHEN G. MOORE, MD, MPH ‘93, served as the President and CEO of CarDon & Associates from 2000 - 2021. He currently serves on CarDon’s Board of Directors. Moore, an Indiana native, graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He trained at the Mayo Clinic in Internal Medicine and…
For RICHARD T. and FRANCES W. JOHNSON, known affectionally as Dick and Fran, a chance conversation at a writer’s conference in Colorado sparked the start of what would eventually become a partnership of more than half a century. United by a shared love of travel and adventure, and a sense…
Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Endowed Professorship in Ataxia
In the summer after his freshman year of college, DANIEL B. GREEN bought a $99 ticket on the Pennsylvania railroad and headed west. Dan stayed with family friends at his first stop in Chicago, where he met their daughter and his future wife, FLORENCE (“Flo”) WEISS. After just a few…
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor in Aging and Community Health
The LEONARD AND HELEN R. STULMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION was established by Leonard Stulman, a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist and Johns Hopkins alumnus, who died in 2000. During their lifetimes, Mr. Stulman and his wife, Helen R. Stulman, made generous gifts to the Jewish community, the arts, music, theater, and to…
NANCY MADDEN, PhD is a professor at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. She is also CEO of the Success for All Foundation which develops, researches, and disseminates educational programs to increase achievement, particularly for disadvantaged students. Madden graduated…
Bloomberg American Health Initiative Professorships
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is a Johns Hopkins alumnus, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action, and former New York City mayor. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City…
