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.
RUTH BLAUSTEIN ROSENBERG (1937, Voice) studied voice and piano at the conservatory and remained close to the school throughout her life as a concertgoer, generous contributor, member of the Peabody Board of Trustees and, later, member of the Peabody Advisory Council. With her husband, Baltimore industrialist Henry Rosenberg Sr., she…
ANDREW W. MELLON, born in 1855, was a financier, diplomat, and industrialist. Mr. Mellon helped found the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Pittsburgh Coal Company. In 1921, he left the presidency of the Mellon National Bank to become U.S. secretary of the treasury, serving…
George T. Nager, M.D., Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Patients of Hopkins physicians GEORGE T. NAGER, M.D., and John Niparko, M.D., the inaugural chairholder, supported the creation of this professorship. Dr. Nager was considered one of the world's leading otological surgeons and otopathologists, as well as an outstanding teacher, mentor, and clinician. Among his many honors was inclusion in…
Charles Cummings Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
CHARLES W. CUMMINGS was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in November of 1935. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1953, Dartmouth College in 1957, and the University of Virginia Medical School in 1961. He was an intern at Dartmouth and completed a year of general surgery residency at the University of…
John E. Bordley Chair in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
JOHN E. BORDLEY, Med 1929, who held the title of Andelot Professor Emeritus, was director of the Department of Otolaryngology from 1952 to 1969, with a joint appointment at the School of Public Health in environmental health sciences. He is considered to have been a major architect of otolaryngology, and…
LAMMOT DU PONT COPELAND of Wilmington, Delaware, was the last du Pont to head his family's firm, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Keenly interested in supporting research concerning reproductive biology and world population growth, he established a trust, in 1958, to benefit the Johns Hopkins Department of…
The Zadek Family Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery
The Zadek family relationship with Johns Hopkins began more than 100 years ago when ISADORE ZADEK entered the School of Medicine. He studied general surgery under Dr. William Halsted, before becoming the fourth resident in Hopkins’ Orthopaedic Program under Dr. William Baer (1915-1918). Dr. Zadek entered the U.S. Army Medical…
Paul D. Sponseller, M.D. Professorship in Pediatric Orthopaedics
In 1980, PAUL D. SPONSELLER, MD, BUS 1999 (MS), 2001 (MBA), the Paul D. Sponseller, M.D. Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics, graduated from the University of Michigan medical school. Following graduation, Dr. Sponseller completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Wisconsin, followed by a pediatric spine and orthopaedics…
Lewis Cass Spencer Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery
LEWIS CASS SPENCER, Med 1911, was the first orthopaedic resident at the School of Medicine and the first orthopaedic surgeon in Louisiana, where he spent his entire career, after a tour of duty in England and France as a captain in the United States Army. He spent 20 years in…
ROBERT A. ROBINSON, former director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was an authority on total hip joint replacement and one of the developers of an operation that alleviated much of the pain associated with the removal of cervical discs. He came to Hopkins in 1953 and was the first…
Lee H. Riley Jr., M.D., Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery
LEE H. RILEY JR, who died in 2001, was a Hopkins Distinguished Service Professor, professor of orthopaedic surgery and served as chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He wrote extensively on the anterior approach to the cervical spine and was one of the first surgeons in the United States…
Virginia M. Percy & William Algernon Percy Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery
In announcing plans for this chair in the 1970s, VIRGINIA M. PERCY voiced her hope that the physicians who held the professorship through the years "will help to shape that future through research and the development of ever new and better techniques and instruments for all orthopaedic conditions, but especially…
