Roy Ziegelstein, M.D., named vice dean for education

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce today the appointment of Roy Ziegelstein, M.D., acclaimed cardiologist and award-winning teacher, as the new vice dean for education at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Roy is ideally qualified to serve as vice dean for education, a position in which he will oversee undergraduate, graduate, residency, postdoctoral and continuing medical education programs, as well as the Welch Medical Library. An internationally recognized expert on the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease, and a superb physician renowned for his sensitivity and skill at doctor-patient communication, he is devoted to educating the next generation of physicians.

The Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Professor of Medicine, Roy has spent his entire professional career at Johns Hopkins.  Among many other roles, he served as director of the internal medicine residency program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for nearly a decade. He developed an innovative course, "Transition to Residency and Internship and Preparation for Life" (TRIPLE), which teaches Hopkins students the attitudes and skills necessary to provide compassionate, patient-centered medical care and prepares them for residency and professional life. 

Co-director of the Aliki Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bayview, Roy helped create and works with residents and students in this novel program that teaches the importance of knowing patients as individuals in order to provide optimal patient care. He has served as senior associate dean for faculty development in the medical school, as well as executive vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview, where he also has been deputy director for education.

In 2004, Roy was recognized for his work on doctor-patient communication by being named the inaugural Miller Family Scholar. In addition, from 2004 through 2010, he served as director of the cardiovascular disease group in the NIH-funded Johns Hopkins Center for Mind-Body Research. 

An amazing scholar, Roy has written extensively on how medical students can improve their efforts to attain the residencies they want and has won a shelf-full of teaching awards. He is a five-time recipient of the School of Medicine's George J. Stuart Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching, as well as the Professor's Award for Distinction in Teaching in the Clinical Sciences.

The American College of Physicians has honored Roy with both its Theodore E. Woodward Award for Medical Education and its C. Lockard Conley Award—named for one of Hopkins' greatest hematologists and a famous mentor of residents and fellows—for contributions to resident education and research. Roy received the highest honor of the College when he became a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2012.   

A native of New York City, Roy came to Hopkins as an intern in 1986, having received his medical degree from Boston University, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.  He rose to assistant chief of the service on the Osler medical housestaff—earning the Daniel Baker Jr. Memorial Award for Patient Care—before completing a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health. He joined the faculty in 1993 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2006.

Roy succeeds David Nichols, M.D., M.B.A., who was named the inaugural vice dean for education in 2000 and left Hopkins in September 2012 to become president and CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics.

We could not have a finer advocate and exemplar of teaching assume the role of vice dean for education than Roy Ziegelstein.
Sincerely,

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