Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Established	1893
Type	Private
Endowment	US$ 1.9 Billion
Dean	Edward D. Miller
Academic staff	3,697
Students	1,400
Location	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Campus	Urban
Website	www.hopkinsmedicine.org

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHUSOM), located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University. Hopkins has consistently been the nation's number one medical school in the amount of competitive research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health. Its major teaching hospital, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been ranked as the best hospital in the United States every year since 1992 by U.S. News and World Report.

Overview

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is located in the East Baltimore campus of Johns Hopkins University together with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing. Known collectively as the "Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions" (JHMI) Campus, it comprises several city blocks, radiating outwards from the Billings building of the Johns Hopkins Hospital with its historic dome. The founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine included pathologist William Henry Welch (1850-1934), the first dean of the school and a mentor to generations of research scientists; internist Sir William Osler (1849-1919), sometimes referred to as the “father of modern medicine,” having been perhaps the most influential physician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as author of The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), written in the Hopkins Hospital and published for more than a century; surgeon William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), who revolutionized surgery by insisting on subtle skill and technique, as well as strict adherence to sanitary procedures; and gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943), a superb gynecological surgeon often credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty and being among the first to use radium to treat cancer.

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital, its major teaching hospital, as well as several other regional medical centers, including the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County, Md., and Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Together they form an academic health science center.

Reputation

For years, Johns Hopkins has been the nation's top medical school in the amount of competitive research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health. According to U.S. News and World Report, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke and UPenn have consistently been ranked in the top five medical research schools in the nation, with Harvard and Johns Hopkins rotating into the top spot periodically . Its major teaching hospital, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been ranked as the best hospital in the United States every year since 1992 by U.S. News and World Report. Askmen.com ranked an M.D. from Johns Hopkins as one of the five most prestigious degrees in the world

The School has served as the model for American medical schools since its founding in 1893. It was the first medical school to require its students to have an undergraduate degree and was also the first graduate-level medical school to admit women on an equal basis as men. Mary E. Garrett, head of the Women's Medical School Fund, was a driving force behind both of these firsts. School founder Sir William Osler became the first professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and the physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler was responsible for establishing the residency system of postgraduate medical training, where young physicians were required to "reside" within the hospital to better care for their patients.

Johns Hopkins Medicine International is an international partnership program to raise the standard of health care around the world.

The colleges

Upon matriculation, medical students at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are divided into four Colleges named after famous Hopkins faculty members who have had a major impact in the history of medicine (Florence Sabin, Vivien Thomas, Daniel Nathans and Helen Taussig). The Colleges were established to "foster camaraderie, networking, advising, mentoring, professionalism, clinical skills, and scholarship." Students are assigned to faculty advisors within their colleges. Each advisor has a group of five students from each of the four years. They instruct these same five students in 'Clinical Skills', a core first-year course, and continue advising them throughout their 4 years of medical school. Every year, the Colleges compete in the “College Olympics.”

Governance

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is led by Ronald J. Daniels, the president of the Johns Hopkins University, Edward D. Miller, CEO and dean of the medical faculty, and Ronald R. Peterson, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and health system. The CFO of Johns Hopkins Medicine is Richard A. Grossi, who is also the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine. A board of over 50 members is chaired by Francis B. Burch, Jr..

Vice deans preside over specific administrative task areas. The vice deans are: William A Baumgartner, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs; Janice E. Clements, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs; Landon King, Vice Dean for Research; Daniel E. Ford, Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation; David G. Nichols, Vice Dean for Education; and David Hellmann, Vice Dean for the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The dean's office also includes over twenty administrators in the position of associate or assistant dean.

Nobel laureates

Eighteen Nobel laureates associated with JHUSOM as alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Chemistry.

• Carol Greider – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009
• Oliver Smithies – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2007
• Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
• Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Paul Greengard – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
• Martin Rodbell – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
• David Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• Francis Peyton Rous – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
• Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
• George Richards Minot – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Thomas Hunt Morgan – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933

Notable past and present faculty

See also: List of Johns Hopkins University people

• John Jacob Abel – Pharmacologist
• Peter Agre – Molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
• John Shaw Billings – Civil War surgeon, pioneering leader in hygiene
• Alfred Blalock – Developed field of cardiac surgery
• Max Brödel – Acclaimed medical illustrator
• William R. Brody – Radiologist, President of the Salk Institute, former President of The Johns Hopkins University
• John Cameron – Hepatobiliary surgeon
• Ben Carson – Pediatric Neurosurgeon, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Curt I Civin – Oncologist
• Denton Cooley – Cardiovascular surgeon
• Harvey Cushing – Father of modern neurosurgery
• Walter Dandy – Neurosurgeon
• Elliot Fishman – Radiologist
• Carol Greider – Molecular biologist and 2009 Nobel Prize laureate
• William Halsted – Father of modern surgery
• A. McGehee Harvey – Internist
• John Eager Howard – Endocrinologist
• Kay Redfield Jamison – Psychologist and Psychiatry professor
• Leo Kanner- Father of child psychiatry
• Howard Kelly – Gynecologist
• Paul Ladenson – Thyroidologist
• Albert L. Lehninger – Biochemist
• A. Edward Maumenee Jr. – Geneticist, Ophthalmologist
• Paul McHugh – Psychiatrist
• Victor McKusick – Developed field of medical genetics
• Adolf Meyer – Psychiatrist
• Russell Morgan – Radiologist
• Vernon Mountcastle – Father of neuroscience
• Alessandro Olivi – Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology
• William Osler – Father of modern medicine
• Edwards Park – Pediatrician
• Peter Pronovost – Anesthesiologist, MacArthur Fellow
• Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa – Neurosurgeon
• Dorothy Reed Mendenhall – Pathologist
• William Rienhoff – Surgeon
• Florence Sabin – Anatomist
• Stanley S. Siegelman – Radiologist
• Hamilton O. Smith – Microbiologist, Nobel laureate
• Solomon H. Snyder – Neuroscientist
• Wayne E. Tillman – Cardiologist
• Helen Taussig – Pediatric cardiologist
• Vivien Thomas – Developed Blalock-Taussig Shunt
• Bert Vogelstein – Molecular oncologist
• Patrick Walsh – Urologist
• William H. Welch – Pathologist
• David B. Weishampel – Paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
• Elias Zerhouni – Radiologist, Director of NIH

In popular culture

• In the Fox television program House, MD, Dr. Gregory House is a world-famous diagnostician who attended Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate degree and, later, medicine, but was expelled for cheating. Neurologist Dr. Eric Foreman also attended Hopkins.
• In the movie Shutter Island, Dr. John Cawley, the head psychiatrist at the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane, is said to have graduated "at the top of his class at both Johns Hopkins and Harvard."
• In the movie Step Brothers, Doctor Robert Doback attends Johns Hopkins University for his postgraduate degree. However this is not good enough for Will Ferrell's character, who says that he "smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins".
• In the TV comedy/drama Gilmore Girls the school is mentioned as one of the medical schools the character of Paris Geller wants to get accepted to, and eventually is.
• In the TV drama Grey's Anatomy, two of the cardiothoracic surgeons Preston Burke and Erica Hahn graduated from Hopkins Med, coming first and second in their class respectively. Arizona Robbins, the Head of Pediatric Surgery, is also a Hopkins Med graduate.
• In the TV drama Private Practice the character of Charlotte King is a graduate of Hopkins Med and Amelia Shepherd trained at Hopkins for residency.
• In The Simpsons, Julius Hibbert is a family physician who graduated from Hopkins Med.
• Dr Hannibal Lecter, from The Silence of the Lambs and other books, completed his residency training at Hopkins Hospital.
• The character of Alex Cross created by author James Patterson is a graduate of Hopkins Med.
• In The West Wing, President Bartlet's middle daughter Ellie is a student at Hopkins Med.
• Johns Hopkins is mentioned many times in Tom Clancy's novels: Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy, is an ophthalmology professor there.
• The ABC documentary Hopkins takes a look at the life of the medical staff and students of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System This new series is a sequel to the 2000 ABC Series Hopkins 24/7. Both "Hopkins" and "Hopkins 24/7" were awarded the prestigious Peabody Award.
• Butters, from South Park, gets sent to Johns Hopkins Hospital for scientific study.
• Movie Something The Lord Made is the story of two men – an ambitious white surgeon, head of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician – who defied the racial strictures of the Jim Crow South and together pioneered the field of heart surgery.
• Dr. Cox from the TV series Scrubs attended Johns Hopkins.
• Melanie Barnett from the TV series The Game always discusses how she gave up Johns Hopkins for professional football player boyfriend Derwin.
• In the movie Getting In, an applicant to the Hopkins School of Medicine who is placed on the waiting list is suspected of murdering other wait-listed applicants to clear his way to admission.

External links

• Johns Hopkins Medicine