Research, leadership, and diversity at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Heritage of excellence. The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1914–1947

Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins

In 1979, Joshua Lederburg, recently appointed president of Rockefeller University, was in recruiting mode. Based on his long-term interest in the brain and psychiatry, Josh approached me with an attractive offer for myself and my colleagues Joe Coyle and Mike Kuhar. I visited our Dean, Richard Ross, to say goodbye, as I knew that Hopkins could never provide us Rockefellerlike resources. While R...

Protecting research subjects--the crisis at Johns Hopkins.

LLEN Roche, a 24-year-old technician at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center and a healthy volunteer in a study of asthma funded by the National Institutes of Health, died on June 2, 2001. Prompted by Roche’s death, the federal Office for Human Research Protections reviewed the system at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions for protecting research subjects and found widespread deficien...

Johns Hopkins: A Canadian medical school?

CMAJ | JULY 4, 2017 | VOLUME 189 | ISSUE 26 E893 Q uestions about the special role Canadians play globally have new resonance as we observe the strikingly different leadership styles of Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. William Osler, first chief of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, was Canadian. Turns out, there were plenty of Canadians in early leadership roles at Hopkins. Short...

Adventures in medical research. A century of discovery at Johns Hopkins

Since then, in addition to patient care and student education , a stream of important research has poured forth, thereby establishing these institutions as one of the most outstanding medical centres in the world. Dr. McGehee Harvey, emeritus professor of medicine, has been reminding us over the last few years of the great men of Hopkins in a series of brilliant sketches published in the Johns ...