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.
IRENE POLLIN has been a pioneer in many areas of women’s health. She was motivated to start Sister to Sister: The Women’s Heart Health Foundation in 2000 to get the word out to women — especially to working women who have limited time to take care of themselves — that…
The Robert L. Levy Professorship is the original endowed professorship in Cardiology. It was established in 1975 thanks to a bequest gift from the estate of DR. ROBERT L. LEVY, a member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Class of 1913. Dr. Levy served his residency at Hopkins and…
VINCENT L. GOTT is a skilled researcher and gifted surgeon and led the Division of Cardiac Surgery for many years. In 1969, with Hopkins surgeon Harvey Bender, Dr. Gott performed the first heart transplant at the hospital. During his more than 35 years with the university, he has helped to…
Nicholas J. Fortuin, M.D. Professorship in Cardiology
NICHOLAS J. FORTUIN, MD, interned at Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Service in 1965, then entered fellowship training in cardiovascular medicine under Richard Ross, conducting research involving new concepts in the distribution of blood flow in heart muscle. He was drafted into the U.S. Public Health Service, assigned to the University…
CLARENCE JACOB DOODEMAN, a warm and gregarious man who worked as an automobile mechanic in Chicago, died of sudden cardiac arrest in 1957 at the age of 45. His older brother met the same fate while still in his 30s, and two of his younger brothers also suffered from heart…
"The real answers to our health care problems lie in research," says MICHAEL J. CUDAHY, a Milwaukee entrepreneur whose endowment of this professorship supports research that holds promise for the early diagnosis and prevention of cardiac disease. Mr. Cudahy co-founded a small electronic instruments company, Marquette Electronics, and soon developed…
E. Cowles Andrus Distinguished Professorship in Cardiology
E. COWLES "COKE" ANDRUS, Med 1921, was a worldwide leader in cardiology and instrumental in its development as an independent medical discipline and major component of modern medicine. A faculty member at Hopkins for more than 50 years, he made significant contributions to heart research, teaching, and patient care. Dr.…
Margery K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professorship in Kidney Transplant Surgery
MARGERY POZEFSKY, Bus 1964, who passed away in 2012, and her husband, THOMAS POZEFSKY, M.D., an internist in private practice and assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, have a long history of philanthropy with Johns…
Aliki Perroti Professorship in Innovative Medicine
ALIKI PERROTI has long been a recognized substantial private and public philanthropist in her native Greece. A daughter of Theodoros Koustantopoulos, an internationally renowned civil engineer who was a major force in post-World War II Greece (after his wartime refusal to assist or cooperate with the Nazis during the occupation…
PHILIP A. TUMULTY, Med 1940, served on the faculty for nearly 50 years, heading the Department of Medicine's inpatient and outpatient services for 17 years and helping to found the Division of Internal Medicine, of which he was the first director. Known as an unequaled diagnostician and a champion of…
Dr. Mary Betty Stevens Professorship in Rheumatology
MARY BETTY STEVENS, Med 1955, known to many as "Marty," trained at Hopkins and joined the faculty in 1960. She went on to become director of the Division of Rheumatology--the first woman appointed to head a Hopkins medicine division--and also director of rheumatology at Good Samaritan Hospital. Known as one…
