Paul Lietman, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed a residency program in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. After a two-year period as clinical associate at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders and a year at the Hospital for Sick Children in London, England, he returned to Hopkins and obtained a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry. He was the 1976 recipient of the W. Barry Wood Award, which is given annually by the medical students to the outstanding preclinical teacher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as the Professors Award for Excellence in both preclinical and clinical teaching in 1985. He has been the Director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and has held the Wellcome Chair in Clinical Pharmacology for 26 years. He also has chaired the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for 29 years. |
