David Hellmann appointed Acting Vice Dean for Education

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that David Hellmann, M.D., vice dean and director of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, has agreed to serve as the School of Medicine’s interim vice dean for education, effective December 1.

Dr. Hellmann is an extraordinarily gifted physician, teacher and program-builder whose superb abilities will enable him to fulfill the vice dean for education’s duties that have been handled so ably by David Nichols, M.D., since this position was created in 2000. As you know, Dr. Nichols is leaving to become president/CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Hellmann—who will continue serving as vice dean for Johns Hopkins Bayview—will fill the vice dean for education’s post until a permanent successor to Dr. Nichols is selected.

As the inaugural holder of the Aliki Perroti Professorship of Innovative Medicine, which recognizes his leadership in education, Dr. Hellmann long has exemplified the finest Hopkins traditions. Since his days as a member of the School of Medicine Class of 1977, through his internship and residency here, to his pivotal role in creating the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center in 1998 and the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine in 2004, Dr. Hellmann has demonstrated his vision, leadership and dedication to Hopkins’ patients, physicians, researchers—and students.

Hopkins’ century-and-a-quarter devotion to innovation is vibrantly alive in Johns Hopkins Bayview’s internal medicine training program. The wonderful assets that the Bayview campus has for internal medicine training were among the key reasons why Dr. Hellmann chose to move there from The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000—and he has made the most of them. His creation of Johns Hopkins Bayview’s nationally recognized “Aliki Iniative,” which imbues students and residents with the importance of knowing each patient as an individual, is just one powerful example of the exceptional educational programs he has fostered there.

We are grateful to Dr. Hellmann not only for his willingness to assume the additional responsibilities of interim vice dean for education but for the great job we know he is certain to perform in doing so.  

Sincerely,

Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine