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.
Victor A. McKusick Professorship in Medicine & Genetics
VICTOR A. McKUSICK, Med 1946, widely recognized as the father of medical genetics, spent his entire career at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Peers credit him with almost singlehandedly introducing and demonstrating the importance of genetics in the practice of medicine. He became the first to describe the cluster of characteristics of…
Bessie Darling Massey Chair in Biomedical Engineering
BESSIE DARLING MASSEY and her husband, J. Alan Massey, owned the Hamilton Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland. Mrs. Massey, a patient of Hopkins physician JOHN E. BORDLEY, Med 1929, honored him with the creation of this professorship. Dr. Bordley was director of the Department of Otolaryngology from 1952 to 1969,…
E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professorship in Pharmacology
ELI KENNERLY MARSHALL JR., A&S 1911 (PhD), Med 1917, was head of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics for more than two decades and was considered one of the most renowned pharmacologists of his time. After earning his doctorate in chemistry, he joined the medical faculty while earning his…
Henry J. Knott Directorship of the McKusick-Nathans Institute for Medical Genetics and Professorship in Medical Genetics
HENRY J. KNOTT was a builder and outstanding developer whose companies constructed thousands of homes and businesses in Baltimore. A longtime hospital trustee, he was awarded an honorary degree in 1986. With his wife, MARION I. KNOTT, he made contributions to cultural institutions in the Baltimore region in excess of…
Isaac Morris and Lucille Elizabeth Hay Professorship in Embryology
ISAAC MORRIS HAY, a general practitioner, established the first and only hospital in Melbourne, Florida, in 1929. His wife, LUCILLE ELIZABETH HAY, assisted with administrative and caretaker duties in addition to raising three children. The private hospital weathered the Great Depression and eventually obtained much-needed outside support when it…
Michael and Ann Hankin and Partners of Brown Advisory Professor in Scientific Innovation
MICHAEL and ANN HANKIN met at Emory University and went on to share the same educational background, graduating from Emory in 1979 with both a BA and an MA along with Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude honors. They also graduated together from the University of Virginia School of…
EDWARD BAYARD HALSTED was a longtime friend of the university and cousin of famed Hopkins surgeon William Halsted. Mr. Halsted had been a stockbroker in New York City. His generous bequest, according to the terms of his estate, was to "be forever devoted to research work for the advancement of…
In 1849, when he was seven years old, JOSEPH R. DeLAMAR stowed away on a ship bound from his Amsterdam home for the Dutch Indies. The journey lasted 18 months, but he was eventually returned to his parents and to school. As a young man, he continued to seek adventure,…
Boury Professorship in Molecular Biology & Genetics
LOUIS J. BOURY moved from Baltimore with his family when he was still a young boy. Many years later, Mr. Boury, who had become an important member of the New York Produce Exchange, remembered the town of his birth with a generous donation to Johns Hopkins--creating this professorship, as well…
Philip Bard Directorship in the Department of Physiology
PHILIP BARD joined the faculty as professor of physiology in 1933. In the course of his 31-year career at Hopkins, Dr. Bard went on to lead his department, serve for four years as dean of the School of Medicine, and win countless honors and awards in recognition of his important…
C. Michael and S. Anne Armstrong Professorship in Patient Safety
C. MICHAEL ARMSTRONG, the eldest of three sons born in pre-World War II Detroit, Michigan, was president of his high school senior class, and earned college football scholarships to the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, and Miami University in Ohio. Mr. Armstrong attended Miami University, where he earned a…
