Determined to make Johns Hopkins Medicine a leader in developing information technologies that revolutionize health care, Dean/CEO Edward Miller has tapped Peter Greene to serve as the institution's first associate dean for emerging technologies.

In the new post, Greene will provide strategic and operational guidance on high-impact, enterprise-wide Internet initiatives for JHM and provide leadership for what Miller calls an "Internet incubator" to evaluate promising new businesses or internal initiatives.

Greene is an associate professor of surgery and of biomedical information sciences who took the lead role in creating an international Web resource for cardiothoracic surgery, CTSNet, that has become a model online community for professional medical societies.

Working with Greene will be an Internet incubator team that includes Carey Kriz, special assistant to the dean/CEO; Alan Coltri, chief systems architect; and others.

In addition, an incubator advisory board will approve or reject candidate projects and help identify financial support. Board members are Miller; Ronald Peterson, president of the hospital and JHHS; David Nichols, vice dean for education; William Baumgartner, Clinical Practice Association president and cardiac surgeon in charge; Richard Grossi, chief financial officer of JHM; Steven Thompson, Hopkins International CEO and JHM vice president; Stephanie Reel, university chief information officer; Elias Zerhouni, executive vice dean; Joanne Pollak, vice president and general counsel, JHHS-JHM; and one trustee.