David B. Hellmann, a nationally renowned
rheumatologist and chairman of the Department of Medicine
at the Johns Hopkins
Bayview Medical Center, has been named the School of
Medicine's vice dean for the Bayview campus.
Edward D. Miller, dean of the school and CEO of Johns
Hopkins Medicine, appointed Hellmann to succeed L. Reuven
Pasternak, who is leaving Johns Hopkins to become chief
medical officer of the Health Alliance of Greater
Cincinnati, which includes the University of Cincinnati
Medical Center.
"David Hellmann is committed to building upon Hopkins
Bayview's strengths and developing programs there that
reinforce the bonds between our two campuses," said Miller,
referring to the university's medical facilities in East
Baltimore and at Bayview. "His appointment as vice dean
reflects our commitment to the same goal." Hellmann will
remain as chairman of the Department of Medicine at Hopkins
Bayview and as the Mary Betty Stevens Professor of
Rheumatology in the School of Medicine.
A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, Hellmann has been
at Johns Hopkins for three decades, beginning as a medical
student. Except for six years at the University of
California, San Francisco, all his clinical and educational
work has been at Johns Hopkins. He has served as deputy
director of the Department of Medicine and associate
physician in chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital; clinical
director of the Division of Molecular and Clinical
Rheumatology; medical director of the Faculty Practice
Center; director of the Osler Medical House Staff training
program; and the co-founder and co-director of the Johns
Hopkins Vasculitis Center. He is associate editor of both
the American Journal of Medicine and Medicine
and has received numerous academic and professional awards.
Hellmann was the executive vice chairman of the
Department of Medicine at JHH and the hospital's vice
chairman for clinical affairs when he became chairman of
the Hopkins Bayview department in 2000.
Hellmann has been praised for his role in the dynamic
development of Bayview's Eastern Avenue campus. He has
recruited accomplished division directors and attracted
other highly regarded individuals to join the medical
center's departments.
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