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.
EUGENE LIPITZ was an early leader in the development of nursing homes. At the time of his death in 1964, he owned four nursing homes in Maryland. He and his wife, MILDRED LIPITZ, are pictured with their children, Roger and Alison.
Edyth H. Schoenrich Professorship in Preventive Medicine
EDYTH H. SCHOENRICH, SPH 1971, came to Hopkins as a young physician in 1948. After an internship on the Osler Service, she served as chief resident on the Marburg Service and held postdoctoral fellowships in hematology and oncology. Concerned with the personal tragedies and societal costs of advanced illness, she…
Edgar Berman Professorship in International Health
A man of exceptional talents and humanitarian concerns, surgeon EDGAR BERMAN (1915-1987) performed the first plastic esophagus implant on a human in 1950 and, in 1957, the first successful heart transplant on a dog. A pioneer in international family planning and rural health programs in the 1960s under the Kennedy…
E.V. McCollum Professorship and Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A giant in the field of nutritional science, ELMER VERNER McCOLLUM (pictured) was credited by his peers as the greatest single contributor to the improvement of human health through nutrition. The first chairman of the School of Public Health's Biochemistry Department, Dr. McCollum was the first to use rats in nutritional experimentation.…
An epidemiologist and virologist, CHARLES ARMSTRONG, Med 1915, (1886-1967) earned an international reputation for his groundbreaking work in polio research and prevention and for his skills as an intrepid microbe hunter, tracking down the sources of disease outbreaks. Born in Alliance, Ohio, Armstrong earned a bachelor’s degree in 1910 from…
Dr. Ali and Rose Kawi Professorship in Mental Health
ALI A. KAWI, MPH ’54, DrPH ’56 a Bloomberg School alumni and professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York, is an expert in neuro-psychiatric disorders, psychosomatic research and medical education. He obtained his doctor of medical science degree from the State University of New York, Downstate…
Doerenkamp-Zbinden Endowed Chair in Evidence-based Toxicology
Founded in 1982 on the initiative of its namesakes, HILDEGARD DOERENKAMP and the late GERHARD ZBINDEN (pictured), the DOERENKAMP-ZBINDEN FOUNDATION was created to promote and reward "exceptional achievements in animal protection in biomedical research." From its inception through the mid-1990s, the foundation focused primarily on reducing the suffering of animals used…
DAVID BODIAN, who held both MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, can be counted as one of the unsung heroes of our era. Supported by a grant honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a polio victim, Dr. Bodian entered the Hopkins Department of Anatomy in 1939 as…
The Curtis L. Meinert Professorship in Clinical Trials
CURTIS L. MEINERT, PhD, is a professor of epidemiology and founding director of the Center for Clinical Trials at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Center for Clinical Trials, a joint initiative of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, supports…
ROBERT S. LAWRENCE, the first Center for a Livable Future Professor, joined the faculty in 1995 as associate dean for Professional Education and Programs, and professor of health policy and management. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.…
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP, Philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading…
ANNA M. BAETJER, whose career at Hopkins spanned 60 years, was a pioneer in the fields of occupational health and industrial hygiene beginning in the 1920s. An enthusiastic and devoted teacher, Dr. Baetjer was best known for her research into the relationship between cancer and chromium. The author of Women in…
