Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed professorships have a personal and lasting impact.
G. Sayeed Choudury
Mr. Choudhury, who holds the Hodson Directorship in Digital Research, was appointed associate director of the Sheridan Libraries digital programs in 2003.
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.
B. Frank and Kathleen Polk Assistant Professorship
B. FRANK POLK, M.D., Sc.D., was born in San Angelo, Texas. He received his BA from the University of Texas in 1963, his M.D. in 1967 from the Baylor College of Medicine, and his Sc.D. in 1976 from the Harvard University School of Public Health. A brilliant researcher and compassionate…
The Deans Sommer and Klag Professorship of the Practice in Public Health Advocacy
SIDNEY and HELAINE LERNER have been longtime friends of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. They are major supporters of the Center for a Livable Future and the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. Helaine Lerner founded GRACE Communications Foundation to create awareness of the problems with our industrial food…
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship of Health Systems, Quality, and Safety
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…
KATEY AYERS was a 1967 graduate of Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. Katey passed away in February 2019, and left her entire estate to Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to create an endowed professorship in her name, representing her lifelong commitment to nursing education. The funds for the…
Sherlock Hibbs/Eugene N. Van Dyke Professorship for Research
Sherlock Hibbs (1904 – 2002) was a humble man who never outgrew his roots in northwest Missouri and always respected the life and dignity of everyone around him. He was born in Cameron, Missouri in 1904, the son of William E. Hibbs, a dry goods merchant who successfully operated a…
Oliver Lee McCabe III, Ph.D. Professorship in the Neuropsychopharmacology of Consciousness
OLIVER LEE MCCABE III, Ph.D., is a board-licensed psychologist with a master’s degree from George Washington University and a doctorate from the Catholic University of America. His career has spanned a broad range of professional activities, including pharmacotherapy research, graduate teaching, clinical practice, business consultation, healthcare administration, and public health…
ELIAS A. ZERHOUNI, M.D., joined the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science after earning his medical degree at the University of Algiers School Of Medicine in 1975. After completing his residency in diagnostic radiology at Johns Hopkins in 1978 and serving as chief-resident, he became an assistant…
The Sheldon B. Bearman, M.D. Professorship in Radiology
The Sheldon B. Bearman, M.D. Professorship in Radiology is funded by THE HERBERT BEARMAN FOUNDATION, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization that provides funding for projects that seek to improve the lives of individuals living in greater Baltimore, South Florida, and Israel. Sheldon B. Bearman, M.D., F.A.C.R. is a retired diagnostic radiologist…
J. Willard Marriott, Jr. Professorship in Ophthalmology
J.W. MARRIOTT JR. is Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Marriott International, Inc., the largest lodging company in the world. Mr. Marriott’s leadership spans more than 60 years, as he guided what was once a family-run root beer stand and restaurant to a global hospitality company that is…
The Sarah E. Allison Endowed Chair in Research and Self-Care
SARAH ELIZABETH ALLISON, Class of 1953, was an innovator who devoted her life and career to Dorothea Orem’s groundbreaking theories of patient self-care matched with nursing support to maximize healing. While a graduate student in Washington, DC, Allison began working with Orem on the latter’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory, bringing…
The Joseph S. and Esther Handler Professorship of Laboratory Research in Nephrology
More than 30 years after JOSEPH S. HANDLER, MD, began making land-mark discoveries about how the kidney works---and devised methods for analyzing the function of epithelial cells that line its filtration tubes, the trachea, ureter, esophagus and rectum---his findings and procedures remain the foundations for current kidney research. Dr. Handler…
