December 22, 2005

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to announce Dalal J. Haldeman, M.B.A., Ph.D., an experienced health care industry executive and specialist in marketing, public relations and business development, as the new Vice President for Marketing and Corporate Communications for Johns Hopkins Medicine.

She will move to Hopkins in February after seven years as Director of Marketing Operations for the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland , Ohio , and was selected after a national search to direct the full-service internal and external communications and marketing office for JHM.

Dalal is unusually well prepared to enhance and lead an already robust enterprise in new strategic directions at a time of intense competition among academic medical centers and tremendous growth at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her background in quality improvement, strategic planning, market research, clinical practice marketing, branding and Web site development, as well as her management experience, bring many essential skills to an enormously complex set of institutions with multiple communications needs.

Prior to her current position at Cleveland Clinic, she was Vice President of Pediatric Medical Management, Inc., and Director of Marketing and Business Development at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation from 1995 to 1998. Before that, she was Associate Vice President/Consultant at Sterling Health Capital Management in New York; General Manager of Meridia Healthcare System/Marriott Corporation in Cleveland; Corporate Director of Quality for the MetroHealth System in Cleveland and Assistant Professor/Manager of Ambulatory Services at Presbyterian Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh.

Among her sterling credentials, Dalal earned a B.S. in biology and chemistry in 1972 and an M.S. in nutrition in 1975 from the American University of Beirut, then went on to receive a Ph.D. in food science from Pennsylvania State University in 1979 and an M.B.A. from Cleveland State University in 1991.

You will find more details about her background in a press release on our Website, www.hopkinsmedicine.org.

Meanwhile, we know you will warmly welcome Dalal, her husband, Glenn, and daughter, Suraya, to the JHM family as she takes her post at the newly named Office of Marketing and Corporate Communications.

Sincerely,

Edward D. Miller, M.D., Dean/CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Ronald R. Peterson, President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health Systems
Steven J. Thompson, Senior Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine