April 26, 2006 David B. Hellmann, M.D., chairman of the department of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and vice dean for the Bayview campus, will be appointed the Aliki Perroti Professor of the Center for Innovative Medicine on April 27, 2006. The inaugural professorship was given by Mrs. Aliki Perroti, a Greek philanthropist who established and funded the Konstantopoulio Hospital in Athens, Greece. The professorship is Mrs. Perroti’s first major contribution outside of Greece. A professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Hellmann specializes in rheumatology, in particular, vasculitis. In 1998, he was the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center. In 2004, Dr. Hellmann created the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine (CIM), which seeks to improve quality of medical care on the Bayview campus by promoting innovations in patient care and medical research. The author of more than 150 articles and chapters, Dr. Hellmann is an associate editor of Medicine and The American Journal of Medicine. He is a recipient of teaching awards from the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins, and a recipient of local and national "Best Doctor" awards. He has served as Governor of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians, and currently is a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine. |
