Colleen Koch appointed as Mark C. Rogers Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

To all of Johns Hopkins Medicine

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that Colleen Koch, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., has been named the Mark C. Rogers Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. She will also assume the role of director of the department.

A well-respected anesthesiologist, Dr. Koch comes to us from Cleveland Clinic, which she joined in 1992. Most recently, she was the vice chair of education and research for its Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. She also served as a professor of anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She held joint appointments with Cleveland Clinic's Quality & Patient Safety Institute and departments of Medical Operations and of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

In addition to her notable program management expertise, Dr. Koch has been actively involved in interdisciplinary research and was a member of Cleveland Clinic's Heart & Vascular Institute, where she mentored cardiothoracic surgical fellows in clinical research.

Dr. Koch serves on the leadership and editorial boards of many esteemed societies and journals, including the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and the International Anesthesia Research Society.

After receiving her M.D. in 1987 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, she completed her internship in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic the following year. She then completed her residency in anesthesiology and also served as a senior resident with a subspecialization in cardiac, thoracic and vascular anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In 2001, she received a master's degree in clinical research, design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and in 2010 an M.B.A. at Case Western Reserve University.

We would like to thank Daniel Nyhan, M.D., for ably leading the department as the interim director for the past year. His leadership has helped to create a strong foundation for the department. We also appreciate the diligence of the search committee, co-chaired by Henry Brem, M.D., director of the department of neurosurgery, and William Baumgartner, M.D., vice dean for clinical affairs for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who conducted an exhaustive nationwide search before enthusiastically recommending Dr. Koch.

Dr. Koch will assume her new position on Sept. 1. Please join us in welcoming her to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins.

Sincerely,

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

Ronald R. Peterson
President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine