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.
GEORGE J. HEUER, MD was a pioneer in neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early 20th century; he trained under Harvey Cushing and acted as a mentor to Walter Dandy. In his early career, Heuer focused on research and clinical work in the field of neurosurgery and temporarily…
Doctors David S. and Marilyn M. Zamierowski Directorship
DAVID S., Med 1968, and MARY M. ZAMIEROWSKI met on the tennis courts behind Reed Hall at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine during the start of fall classes in 1967. David was a senior medical student and Mary was a first-year graduate student in Lehninger’s Biochemistry Department. David proposed…
A family whose members wish to be anonymous created this professorship, along with a research endowment in the Department of Neurology, to support wide-ranging efforts to improve mental functions in people with developmental or acquired brain disorders. Research and clinical initiatives at Hopkins will apply the best theoretical knowledge from…
W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Endowed Professorship in Neuroimmunology
THE W.W. SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST is a private foundation dedicated to improving lives through strategic philanthropy in four key areas: providing for basic human needs, advancing access to higher education through scholarships, preserving maritime education and heritage, and funding pioneering medical research, particularly in heart disease, cancer, and AIDS. Guided…
Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professorship in Neurodegenerative Diseases
[caption id="attachment_114" align="alignleft" width="250"] [/caption] LEONARD ABRAMSON is a Trustee Emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University. His career began as a retail pharmacist. While working for a hospital-management company he created Family Medical Care, a prepaid medical plan, which he subsequently purchased. In the late 1970s, he changed the name…
JEFFREY LEGUM is chair of the Legum Foundation and the chief executive officer of the Park Circle Company, an investment holding company. He was formerly the chief executive officer of the Westminster Motor Company, Park Circle Chevrolet and Legum Chevrolet-Nissan, which was the largest car and truck dealership in Maryland.…
R. Champlin and Debbie Sheridan Deanship of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library
R. CHAMPLIN SHERIDAN, A&S 1952, and his wife, DEBBIE SHERIDAN, played a unique and indispensable role in enabling the university to fulfill founding president Daniel Coit Gilman's belief that “There is no such thing as a great university apart from a great library.” Mrs. Sheridan is a member of the…
Joseph Ruzicka and Marie Ruzicka Feldmann Directorship of Library Preservation
MARIE RUZICKA FELDMANN, A&S 1929 (MA), with her father, JOSEPH RUZICKA, owned and operated the Ruzicka Bindery in Baltimore, founded in 1879 by her father. Mrs. Feldmann joined the bindery in 1929, learned the business of certified library bookbinding, and succeeded her father as president in the mid-1930s. The Ruzicka…
Hodson Directorship of the Digital Research and Curation Center
THE HODSON TRUST was established by THOMAS S. HODSON, a Maryland lawyer and state senator. His son, CLARENCE HODSON (pictured), a lawyer and banker who was commissioned a colonel by the governor of Maryland, provided the trust's assets. Colonel Hodson founded the Beneficial Loan Society in 1914 to make small…
Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professorship in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
PHILIP MYERS, MD, A&S 1933, formed his appreciation for the language and culture of his heritage by listening to his father read the Forward and other Yiddish newspapers and publications. A Baltimore native, Dr. Myers earned his medical degree at the University of Maryland. He was certified by the American Board…
Willis K. Shepard Professorship in the History of Science
WILLIS K. SHEPARD was a successful oil businessman. With his son, RICHARD H. SHEPARD, Med 1946, he set up a trust to endow this professorship and support construction of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Their commitment--at first made anonymously; but after Willis Shepard's death in 1965, recognized publicly--also qualified for…
