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.
Richman Family Professorship for Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases
ALISON RICHMAN, an adoption social worker for Jewish Community Services, and ARNOLD RICHMAN, a partner at the Shelter Group, LLC, a Baltimore-based national real estate development firm that, among other activities, develops and manages senior housing and assisted living retirement communities, have dedicated their lives to participating in and building…
Hospital trustee HENRY PHIPPS, along with his wife, supported the establishment at Hopkins of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, the nation’s first inpatient facility for the mentally ill constructed as part of an acute care hospital. In 1908 the Pittsburgh industrialist offered to fund construction of a clinic and to…
Eugene Meyer III Professorship in Psychiatry and Medicine
EUGENE MEYER III, Med 1941, served on the Hopkins faculty in psychiatry and medicine for nearly four decades, until his death in 1982. The dual focus of this professorship reflects his training and accomplishments in both fields. Dr. Meyer was an early leader of the Hopkins Psychiatric Liaison Service, which…
Paul R. McHugh Professorship in Motivated Behaviors
PAUL R. McHUGH, former director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the hospital, has been widely recognized for his efforts to bring clarity and conceptual structure to psychiatry. Since his arrival at Hopkins in 1975, Dr. McHugh forged a department considered one of the best in the…
Arlene and Robert Kogod Professorship in Mood Disorders
ROBERT P. KOGOD is President of Charles E. Smith Management, LLC. He is the former Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of the Charles E. Smith Commercial Realty LP and Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, Inc. Mr. Kogod currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Vornado Realty Trust, a real estate investment…
Dr. RUDOLF HOEHN-SARIC received his medical degree from the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. He served residencies in psychiatry at McGill in Montreal, neurology in Vienna and a fellowship in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Hopkins. Dr. Rudolf Hoehn-Saric joined the psychotherapy research group of Dr. Jerome Frank in 1961 and…
The DALIO PROFESSORSHIP IN MOOD DISORDERS is generously supported by the Dalio Foundation, Inc. This professorship was formally installed in April of 2010, with gratitude and respect to the co-directors of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, Drs. J. Raymond DePaulo, Med 1972, and Kay Redfield Jamison, and many other…
Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professorship for Alzheimers Research in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
ELIZABETH and ERNEST ALTHOUSE were longtime residents of Poughkeepsie, New York, where they were both employees of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation. Mr. Althouse joined the company in 1928 and by 1968 had risen to become its president. He retired in 1975, but continued to serve as vice-chairman of…
The Stephen and Jean Robinson Professorship for Eating Disorders
STEVE and JEAN ROBINSON married in 1989. Jean is a native of the Baltimore area and Steve, a native of Oklahoma. Together they spent the next 25 years raising their three daughters in Howard County, coaching and supporting them in soccer, basketball, high school musicals and the Future Business Leaders…
The Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno Innovation Professorship
SACHIKO KUNO, PhD obtained her PhD in biochemical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan and conducted post-doctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, Germany at a time when there were few women pursuing careers in science. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Kuno and Dr. RYUJI UENO established R-Tech Ueno Ltd. in…
SIDNEY M. FRIEDBERG (A&S 1930; Piano 1954; BS 1971, English and World Literature) was chief executive officer and president of the nation's largest independent bowling chain, Fair Lanes, Inc. He took over leadership of the company at age 19, upon his father's death. Mr. Friedberg met his first wife, Miriam,…
DOROTHY SCOTT PAULINE BENDANN loved classical music, particularly opera. Ms. Bendann, known to friends as Scott, trained as a nurse at Union Memorial Hospital and later earned a degree from Columbia University. She worked as a freelance writer for New York newspapers before returning to live in Baltimore. In addition…
