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.
Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professorship in International Economics and Business
CHUNG JU YUNG was the founder and honorary chairman of Korea's HYUNDAI BUSINESS GROUP. He was instrumental in promoting economic development and business cooperation between South and North Korea. In 1977, Chung Ju Yung established the Asan Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organization, as part of his philanthropic commitment to…
Christian A. Herter Professorship in American Foreign Policy
CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER, United States secretary of state from 1959 to 1961, was one of the founders of SAIS. During his long and distinguished public career, he was a diplomat, a congressman, and governor of Massachusetts. He was highly praised by President Dwight Eisenhower, who said, "When you look at…
C.V. Starr Distinguished Professorship in Southeast Asia Studies
THE STARR FOUNDATION was established in 1955 by CORNELIUS VANDER STARR, who moved to China after World War I and founded the Asia Life and American Asiatic Life Insurance Companies. Today, American International Group, Inc., as the enterprises are known, is the world’s largest insurance organization, with more than 88…
Bernard L. Schwartz Professorship in Political Economy
BERNARD LEON SCHWARTZ is chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. He also manages the investments of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, which mainly supports higher education, medical research, and New York City-based cultural organizations. He promotes the development of U.S. economic policy initiatives through…
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…
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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…
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…
