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Faculty appointments and promotions: December 2018

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The following faculty appointments and promotions were approved by the university's board of trustees at its Dec. 7 meeting.

Bloomberg School of Public Health

Karen Davis has been appointed professor emerita in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Neal Halsey has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of International Health.

Lori Heise has been appointed to the rank of professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, retroactive to Aug. 15, 2017.


Hongkai Ji has been promoted to the rank of professor, with tenure, in the Department of Biostatistics.

Thomas Kensler has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.


Stephen P. Teret has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Carey Business School

Nagpurnanand Prabhala has been appointed professor, with tenure.

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Jane Bennett has been appointed to the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.

Rebekka S. Klausen has been appointed the Second Decade Society Assistant Professor.


Mitchell B. Merback has been appointed to the Arnell and Everett Land Professorship in the History of Art.

Jacques Neefs has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures.

School of Medicine

William A. Baumgartner has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Surgery.

Patrizio Caturegli has been appointed first holder of the Patrizio Caturegli, MD, MPH Professorship in Immunopathology in the Department of Pathology.

Margaret S. Chisolm has been promoted to the rank of professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Stephen Desiderio has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Barbara Detrick has been appointed professor emerita in the Department of Pathology and Medicine.

Scott H. Faro has been appointed to the rank of professor of radiology, retroactive to Jan. 15, 2017.


Daeyeol Lee has been appointed professor of neuroscience and endorsed as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor.

Frank R. Lin has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine.

Charles J. Love has been appointed to the rank of professor in the Department of Medicine, effective July 1, 2017.


Peter V. Rabins has been appointed professor emeritus in the departments of Psychiatry and Medicine.

Pradeep Y. Ramulu has been promoted to the rank of professor of ophthalmology and appointed the first holder of the Sheila K. West Professorship in the Department of Ophthalmology, effective April 1, 2019.


Mohamed A. Rehman has been appointed to the rank of professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, retroactive to April 15, 2017.

David A. Rini has been promoted to the rank of professor of art as applied to medicine.

Corinne Sandone has been promoted to the rank of professor of art as applied to medicine.

Bradley L. Schlaggar has been appointed to the rank of professor of neurology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics.

Dipali Sharma has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Oncology.

Harvey S. Singer has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Neurology, effective July 1, 2019.

Barry S. Solomon has been promoted to the rank of professor of pediatrics.

Barney J. Stern has been appointed to the rank of professor of neurology, retroactive to Oct. 10, 2017.

Zsolt Szabo has been appointed professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology.

Jie Xiao has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry.

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