Tina Cheng Named Director of the Department of Pediatrics

To the Johns Hopkins Medicine community

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tina Cheng has been named the Given Foundation Professor of Pediatrics, director of the Department of Pediatrics for the school of medicine, pediatrician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cheng has also been named co-director of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and will work closely with David Hackam, chief of pediatric surgery, to help manage the Children’s Center's multifaceted clinical and research centers. She will assume these positions on July 1, taking up the mantle from George Dover, who departs on June 30.

Tina is a devoted clinician who has developed community-integrated models of primary care to address the needs of vulnerable children, adolescents and families. She currently serves as a professor of pediatrics in the school of medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the school of medicine and chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Additionally, Tina oversees the Harriet Lane Clinic in East Baltimore and Johns Hopkins Bayview's Pediatric Center of emergency and inpatient care, Children's Medical Practice and Center for Addiction and Pregnancy pediatric practice.

In addition to being an outstanding leader, Tina is an adept educator, researcher and administrator. She founded the Generations Clinic in Washington, D.C., a teen and tot clinic that has been recognized as an evidence-based best practice in reducing rapid repeat pregnancy. She is also co-leading an innovative model of school health at the KIPP Baltimore schools to improve health and academic outcomes.

Tina's clinical work, teaching and research focus on child and adolescent health disparities. She has been a principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health-funded DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities with Howard University and Children’s National Medical Center since 2002, and through this developed a research action agenda on child health disparities. She also led the establishment of Johns Hopkins Centro SOL: Center for Salud/Health and Opportunity for Latinos and the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education. These centers address health disparities through multisector, community-oriented innovation.

With over 150 publications, Dr. Cheng is a widely recognized expert in her field, and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and seminars. Tina has been the principal investigator on numerous federal and foundation grants, and has conducted randomized trials of primary care and emergency department-initiated interventions in partnership with community services to promote positive youth development and family health.

Tina earned her medical degree from Brown University and her master's degree in public health with a focus in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as pediatric chief resident at San Francisco General Hospital.

We would like to thank George Dover, a dynamic leader with a passion for caring for children and their families for his immeasurable contributions to the field of pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine. We also appreciate the work of the search committee, co-chaired by Janice Clements, vice dean for faculty, and Peter McDonnell, director of the Wilmer Eye Institute, for its diligence and recommendation of Tina.

Tina's extensive background in pediatric medicine and her innovative leadership will serve her well in her new role. Please join us in congratulating her on these well-deserved appointments.

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