School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Mentoring Award
The Dean’s Distinguished Mentoring Award honors a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty member whose exceptional career has included the mentoring of individuals who have gone on to establish independent, eminent careers in academic medicine. The Dean's Distinguished Mentoring Award is supported by a gift from Dr. Frances Meyer and Dr. Paul Rothman.
2024 School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Mentoring Award Lecture
Friday, May 10, from 4–5 p.m.
Johns Hopkins Hospital Chevy Chase Bank Auditorium
2024 Award Recipient
David B. Hellmann, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Aliki Perroti Professor of Medicine
David B. Hellmann, M.D. Endowed Professorship
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lecture on the Importance of Mentoring: “The Bleeding Always Stops”
William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
Past President of The Johns Hopkins University (1996–2009)
2023 Award Recipient
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, M.D., FAACR, FACP, FAAAS
The Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Professor of Oncology
Deputy Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Cancers Program
Guest Speaker: David A. Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of the Cancer Center at CSHL & Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research
Chief Scientist, Lustgarten Foundation
Past President, AACR
2022 Award Recipient
Charles Cummings, M.D.
Distinguished Service Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Lecture: “Dr. Charles W. Cummings: Inside the Mind of a Mentor”
Charles Limb, M.D.
Francis A. Sooy professor and chief of the division of otology, neurotology and skull base surgery at the UCSF School of Medicine
2021 Award Recipient
Henry Brem, M.D.
Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery
Director of the Department of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lecture: “From the Discovery of the First Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems for Treating Nearly Any Disease: My Journey with Henry Brem”
Robert Langer, Sc.D.
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2020 Award Recipient
Catherine DeAngelis, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor Emerita
Lecture: “Health Equity: We Can't Have One Without the Other”
Richard Besser, M.D.
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2019 Award Recipient
Mike Weisfeldt, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Lecture: “From Academia, to Government and Industry: Lessons Learned About Biomedical Sciences”
Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Former Executive Vice Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2018 Award Recipient
George Bigelow, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lecture: “Ending the Opioid Crisis: The Role of Science”
Nora Volkow, M.D.
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
2017 Award Recipient
Donald Coffey, Ph.D.
Distinguished Service Professor of Urology
Professor Emeritus of Oncology, Pathology, and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Lecture: “The Changing Landscape of Cancer Drug Resistance”
Charles Sawyers, M.D.
Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2016 Award Recipient
Guy McKhann, M.D.
First director, Department of Neurology
Founding director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Lecture: “The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present”
Eric Kandel, M.D.
Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University