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.
Dr. Frank V. Sutland Professorship in Pediatric Genetics
FRANK V. SUTLAND, a dentist in Troy, New York, and a 1924 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, established a network of Sutland Dental Clinics across New York and Pennsylvania. The clinics emphasized dentistry for children and the handicapped. He was an active supporter of numerous charities and…
Stermer Family Professorship in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
More than a quarter of those who suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are under 20 years of age. These diseases, which include ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, are chronic conditions that cause inflammation and ulceration in the inner lining of the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in a host of painful…
Theodore and Vada Stanley Distinguished Professorship in Neurovirology in Pediatrics
The late THEODORE and VADA STANLEY were major supporters to Johns Hopkins, both Medicine and University, for more than twenty-five years. There are countless signs all across Johns Hopkins reminding us of the power of the Stanley’s philanthropy. From the crepe myrtle bush planted in memory of Ted and Vada…
When his grandson was diagnosed with leukemia, JOHN F. RAINEY, Med 1933, called Johns Hopkins and was assured that the boy was getting proper care. Indeed, the grandson recovered, and Dr. and Mrs. Rainey developed a lasting friendship with Hopkins pediatric hematologist William H. Zinkham, the first to hold this…
HARRIET S. LEDERER in 1939 established the LEWIS J. AND HARRIET S. LEDERER FUND at the hospital to be used for research into the cause and cure of epilepsy. The income from this endowment was for many years used to support research in the departments of Neurology, Neurologic Surgery, and…
Haller Professorship in Pediatric Neurologic Diseases
VIRGINIA DORIOT HALLER began her remarkable life as the daughter of a general physician and surgeon in the coalfields of Pocahontas, Virginia. At a time when few women attended college, she graduated from Randolph-Macon Women's College and received a master's degree in Latin and the classics from Columbia University, followed…
IRENE HEINZ GIVEN and JOHN LaPORTE GIVEN, married in 1899, provided generous support to medical institutions and universities nationwide. The Givens made their home in Vermont, and Mrs. Given--the daughter of Henry J. Heinz, founder of the H.J. Heinz Company--was active in civic life. In memory of their father and…
Rear Admiral Ray R. Conner and Laura H. Conner Professorship in Pediatrics
Rear Admiral RAY R. CONNER left a substantial bequest to Johns Hopkins for the care of children whose families could not pay their medical bills. He was motivated, he said, by news programs featuring parents forced to beg for financial assistance for their children's serious medical conditions. Highly decorated for…
Professorship in the Clinical Care & Research of Pediatric Endocrinology
WANDA T. KING’s daughter was diagnosed with diabetes when she was a child. It was not until she and her daughter visited Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and learned how to successfully manage the illness that Mrs. King’s fears were calmed. She felt reassured that they were moving in the right…
Aetna U.S. Healthcare Professorship in Medical Genetics
AETNA U.S. HEALTHCARE is a leading provider of managed healthcare benefits and indemnity healthcare benefits, as well as group insurance coverage, pharmacy, and dental plans. The essay company vision is "to create the opportunity for all Americans to lead full and healthy lives." To further this vision, Aetna U.S. Healthcare…
ZANVYL KRIEGER, A&S ’28 (1906-2000), celebrated his close friendship with the late university President Emeritus Milton S. Eisenhower by providing for the eventual creation of the Krieger-Eisenhower professorships—part of his record-setting 1992 endowment gift to the School of Arts and Sciences, which was named in his honor in 1995. Mr.…
