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August 21, 2009
I am pleased to announce that the executive committee of the board of trustees has accepted my recommendation that Professor Lloyd B. Minor be appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of The Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Minor, currently the Andelot Professor and director of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery in the School of Medicine, also holds appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. He will take office as the university’s 13th provost on Sept. 1.
Lloyd Minor is an exceptional scholar, clinician and scientist with an outstanding record in academic leadership. He brings to university leadership a driving passion to make Johns Hopkins stronger in all its crucial dimensions: research, education and service. His passion is surpassed only by his ability to build consensus and implement ambitious, strategic priorities that are characterized by an uncompromising commitment to academic excellence.
Dr. Minor was recruited to Johns Hopkins in 1993 as an assistant professor. In 2003, in recognition of his outstanding academic reputation and his strong leadership and interpersonal skills, he was named director of his department, the equivalent of chair in the School of Medicine.
And he has been an extraordinarily successful chair. During his six-year tenure, Dr. Minor has been responsible for enhancing the standing of one of the school’s most renowned departments. He has worked vigorously to recruit and retain an outstanding and diverse set of colleagues, augmented the annual level of research funding by more than 50 percent, increased clinical activity by more than 30 percent and strengthened both the quality of teaching and student training and the department’s financial position.
In addition to his role as chair, Dr. Minor has served in a number of important senior roles within the school. He has been chair of the Administrative Committee of the Medical Board and the Practice Management Committee. He has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Discipline, the Board of Governors of the Clinical Practice Association and the Professorial Promotions Committee.
Dr. Minor’s record of accomplishment rests on his foundation as a gifted researcher, scientist and surgeon. He enjoys an international reputation for his work on understanding the physiological processes that mediate sensing and controlling motion. With more than 110 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is best known for his research in working to advance understanding of how the body perceives head motion and maintains balance. Other areas of recognized expertise include Ménière’s disease and signal processing mechanisms in vestibular pathways. Dr. Minor’s research has received continuous support from the National Institutes of Health for the past 14 years. In addition to the contributions of his research to otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, his work has had impact in the fields of biomedical engineering and neuroscience.
Dr. Minor has long been applauded as deeply committed to teaching as well as to research. Indeed, he has reached out repeatedly over the years to teach undergraduates from the Homewood campus, and is a revered teacher in the School of Medicine.
Scott Zeger, vice provost for research and a professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, will continue as interim provost through Aug. 31 and thereafter will continue to champion the university’s research enterprise as vice provost. Scott has been overseeing two portfolios since March and I am enormously grateful to him for his support and dedication over the past few months. I am particularly appreciative of the role that he has played in coordinating the university’s emergency preparedness efforts while advancing its academic agenda in a number of areas. Lloyd and I look forward to continuing to work closely with Scott on the ambitious agenda he has unleashed for university research, which include a number of exciting interdisciplinary initiatives.
I know that the entire university community joins me in thanking Scott Zeger and in welcoming Lloyd Minor to this new chapter in his distinguished service to Johns Hopkins.
More information about Provost-elect Minor can be found in a news release available online at
http://releases.jhu.edu/2009/08/21/lloyd-minor-named-provost.
Sincerely,
Ronald J. Daniels
President
The Johns Hopkins University
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