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.
The KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL (KKESH) is the largest eye hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is one of the top-ranked medical facilities in the Middle East. KKESH’s mission is to serve as the center of excellence for tertiary eye care, educate and train professionals, conduct research,…
Charles E. Iliff III Professorship in Ophthalmology
During his 50-year association with the Wilmer Eye Institute, CHARLES E. ILIFF III was internationally renowned for his pioneering contributions to oculoplastics, cataract surgery, and corneal transplantation that contributed significantly to the standards of modern eye medicine. In honor of Dr. Iliff’s remarkable career and enduring legacy, his wife, Helen…
JONAS STEIN FRIEDENWALD was born in Baltimore on June 1, 1897, a member of a prominent Baltimore family. He inherited a great tradition of leadership in ophthalmology, starting with his grandfather, Aaron Friedenwald, one of the first ophthalmologists in Baltimore and one of the early American ophthalmologists to study in…
Frieda Derdeyn Bambas Professorship in Ophthalmology
FRIEDA GABRIELE MARIE JOSEPH DERDEYN, who later became Dr. Frieda Bambas, was nine years old when she and her mother emigrated from Belgium to the United States prior to World War I to join her father, who had left earlier to establish himself in the U.S. The family settled first…
MEREDITH and JOHN CROSS live in Washington, DC. Meredith served as the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 until 2013 and then rejoined the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr as a partner in the Securities and…
SAMUEL THEOBALD was born in Baltimore on November 12, 1846, a member of the prestigious Smith family, which was prominent in American medicine. His great-grandfather was Nathan Smith, a Harvard graduate and founder of a number of medical schools, including Dartmouth and Yale. His grandfather, Nathan Ryno Smith, was the…
Maurice E. Langham, Ph.D. Professorship of Ophthalmology
MAURICE E. LANGHAM, PhD came to Wilmer Eye Institute at the invitation of Wilmer’s director, Alfred Edward Maumenee, Jr, MD. The two had met while “Ed” Maumenee was a visiting professor at Guy’s Hospital in London and Langham was director of the Ophthalmological Research Unit, Medical Research Council, London. Langham…
Members of the BENDANN FAMILY are historically humanitarians. Dating back to the Civil War, Daniel and David Bendann saw the need to photograph soldiers both for military records and their families. After the war, they opened an art gallery in New York; eventually, they moved to Baltimore and split…
Dr. Arnall Patz Endowed Professorship for the Lions Low Vision Center
Dr. ARNALL PATZ was a world-renowned scientist, clinician, teacher, and administrator. Through his work, he immeasurably brightened the lives of everyone he met. Beginning in 1950, while still an ophthalmic resident in Washington, DC, Dr. Patz first noticed an association between incubators and retinopathy of prematurity, a leading cause of…
Abram G. Hutzler Professorship in Political Economy
In 1858, ABRAM G. HUTZLER, with his brothers Charles and David, founded Hutzler Brothers Company, which became the largest department store in Baltimore. It remained an integral part of the region's landscape and culture for 142 years, famous for high-quality merchandise and outstanding customer service. Mr. Hutzler endowed this professorship…
Brothers HERMAN (left) and WALTER SAMUELSON (below) were Baltimore natives who both attended high school at Baltimore City College and graduated from the University of Maryland Law School. Herman Samuelson was cofounder of the Jewish Convalescent Home and served for many years as an officer of its board of directors. He practiced law briefly…
BARBARA B. RUBENSTEIN, who succumbed to breast cancer in 2001, was a charter member of the Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Advisory Council and a devoted friend of the center's director, Martin Abeloff, MD. A tireless advocate for translational research and the concept of rapidly directing knowledge gained in the laboratory…
