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 SAMSUNG CORPORATION, sponsor of Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, expressed its shared commitment to supporting high quality international medicine by endowing this chair. The Samsung Medical Center also donated telemedicine equipment to the Outpatient Center. Founded in 1938 by the late Byung-Chull Lee, Samsung began as an exporter…
Alfredo Rivière and Norma Rodriguez de Rivière Professorship in Endocrinology and Metabolism
ALFREDO RIVIÈRE is founder of the SURAL Group--more than a half-dozen companies with operations on four continents. SURAL subsidiaries fabricate aluminum parts for the automobile and electronics industries, produce synthetic quartz used as timing devices in clocks and dozens of household items, and manufacture electronic chips for cell phones and…
John G. Rangos Sr. Professorship of Adult Medicine
JOHN G. RANGOS SR. has referred hundreds of family, friends, and colleagues to Hopkins. "They've all come back with great results because the doctors at Hopkins truly care," he says. Formerly the chairman of Chambers Development Company and vice-chair of the board for USA Waste Services, Inc., Mr. Rangos currently…
Moses and Helen Golden Paulson Professorship in Gastroenterology
As a girl growing up in West Virginia, HELEN GOLDEN, A&S 1924 (MS), hoped to become a doctor, but was discouraged from this dream by her father. A few hundred miles away in Baltimore, MOSES PAULSON shared the same ambition, recalling that "few people even graduated from high school in…
SIR WILLIAM OSLER, one of Hopkins' four founding doctors, served as physician-in-chief and professor of medicine. He was a proponent of the close integration of the hospital with the instruction of students in the School of Medicine--a model emphasizing teaching at the bedside that he pioneered at Johns Hopkins. Through…
Harry and Betty Myerberg/Thomas R. Hendrix Professorship in Gastroenterology
THOMAS R. HENDRIX, Med 1951, became the first full-time director of gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins six years after receiving his medical degree, a position he held until 1988. He contributed significantly to the division’s longstanding reputation as one of the world’s leading resources for the research and care of…
The C. David Molina, M.D., M.P.H. Chair in Medicine
C. DAVID MOLINA, MD, MPH, was born September 7, 1926, the only son of Conrad and Josephine Molina. He grew up in Yuma, Arizona until he came to California for college. He attended San Diego State College, where he met his wife, Mary, and they graduated together in 1951. He…
MARY ESTELLE McCRORY was born on April 29, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was a mother, philanthropist, mentor, and friend who was admired and loved by all who knew her. Mrs. McCrory attended the University of Missouri-Columbia where she graduated in 1931 with a B.S. degree in education. At…
Hugh P. McCormick Family Professorship in Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology
HUGH P. McCORMICK JR., A&S 1942, is a retired executive of McCormick & Co., the international specialty food company founded in 1889 by his great-uncle. While a Hopkins undergraduate, he participated in the wrestling team and was captain of both the swimming and football teams. Mr. McCormick and his wife,…
RAYMOND LUBLIN, Med 1929, a general surgeon who practiced in East Hartford, Connecticut, opened that city's first hospital in 1939. He invested the money he made from his private practice into the hospital's improvement and development. Dr. Lublin's contributions to East Hartford were not confined to the hospital: he also…
MASON F. LORD, Med 1954, recognized as one of the fathers of geriatric medicine, was the first full-time chief of the Geriatrics Program at the Baltimore City Hospitals, now the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Prior to his untimely death in 1965 at the age of 39, Dr. Lord laid the…
