Edward Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of JHM; U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.); Ronald Peterson, president of the hospital and health system. PHOTO BY HPS/WILL KIRK

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and her staff visited Johns Hopkins on Feb. 13 to meet with Edward Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Ronald Peterson, president of the hospital and health system; and Linda Robertson, vice president for government, community and public affairs.

The meeting, held in Miller's office in the SOM Administration Building, coincided with the start of the U.S. legislative session and the release of the Bush administration's fiscal year 2005 budget.

Specifically, the group discussed some of Johns Hopkins' legislative and universitywide priorities for the coming year, among them the budget of the National Institutes of Health, a primary source of research funding at Johns Hopkins; the physical growth of the East Baltimore campus; reauthorization of the Higher Education Act; Medicare legislation; and Homeland Security efforts, namely the work of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, known as CEPAR.

Mikulski sits on both the Senate's Appropriations Committee and its Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

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