School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Mentoring Award Lecture, Honoring David B. Hellmann

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Please join the ninth annual School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Mentoring Award Lecture followed by a reception. The lecture will also be livestreamed.

The 2024 recipient of the Distinguished Mentoring Award is David B. Hellmann, professor of medicine. William R. Brody, past president of Johns Hopkins, will speak about the importance of mentorship in his lecture "The Bleeding Always Stops."

Hellmann is an internationally renowned rheumatologist, educator, and program builder. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Innovative Medicine and is the inaugural Aliki Perroti Professor of Innovative Medicine. A past chair of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and vice dean for that campus, Hellmann has made lasting contributions to Johns Hopkins Medicine, including founding the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine. The center strives to imagine and test novel ways in which promotion of caring, science, and justice related to health can make medicine a better public trust for patients, families, and communities. One of the most notable of these efforts was the founding of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence. Hellmann also was the first program director of the Osler Medical Residency Training Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Hellmann is an exceptional and well-respected teacher, physician, colleague, and mentor and has received many local and national teaching awards and best doctor awards. He has served on numerous leadership and editorial boards, including director of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Additionally, he is an associate editor of the American Journal of Medicine and former editor of the journal Medicine (Baltimore).