Hopkins Medical Institutions

Howard County Community Health Foundation has elected 10 new trustees to join the eight-member foundation board.The foundation, established by the merger in July between Howard County General Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine, will receive about $55 million of the acquisition funds early this year.The funds will be invested, and the endowment earnings will be used to promote good health in the community.The trustees, who will begin their service to the foundation this month, are Judith A. Britz, vice president, American Standard Inc.; Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Rosemary A. Davis, former executive vice president, National Medical Association; Robert M. Duggan, president and co-founder, Traditional Acupuncture Institute; Padraic M. Kennedy, retired president, Columbia Association; Gary A. Milles, physician and principal, Milles, Oken and Seals; James R. Moxley Jr., president, Security Development Corp.

In the amphitheater of the great teaching hospital, a 6-foot-5 executive with silver hair and a serious suit was talking renewal: a new cancer center in the fall, a research building by 2003, a new enterprise in Singapore.When the father of a girl with leukemia denounced the pediatrics center as cramped and decrepit, Dr. Edward D. Miller was ready with yet another plan for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions: a $150 million Children's Center, with all the latest amenities."We have an insatiable appetite for things new," Miller told those gathered at his monthly town meeting.

Washington College to name building after GoldsteinWashington College will name a new $4 million academic building on its campus in Chestertown after Louis L. Goldstein, the state comptroller for four decades who died last year.Slated to open in August 2000, the 22,000-square-foot facility will house classrooms, faculty offices and a 75-seat lecture hall. The Alden Trust of Massachusetts has pledged $100,000 toward its cost.Goldstein graduated from Washington College in 1935 and joined its board of visitors and governors in 1957.

A 3-YEAR-OLD effort by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to create a satellite medical facility in Baltimore County has proven to be such a success that Hopkins is doubling the facility's size. The Baltimore health care provider is putting the finishing touches on Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station Pavilion II, a four-story, 75,000-square-foot medical facility that is a mirror image of the building Hopkins opened in 1994 at 10755 Falls Road.Hopkins controls another 25,000 square feet at the Falls Concourse, a third building at the Green Spring Station retail and office complex at Falls and Joppa roads.

Dr. Abraham Genecin, a retired cardiologist, internist and associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died of cancer Saturday at his Mount Washington home. He was 80.Dr. Genecin also had a private practice beginning in the late 1940s and was a member of Park Medical Associates from 1955 to 1991, when he retired from his practice and from Hopkins.A tall, white-haired man who favored tortoise-shell glasses, Dr. Genecin was born in Minneapolis, the son of a Russian immigrant jewelry engraver, and was raised in New York City.

The Johns Hopkins University will use a $17 million grant to build and operate a facility dedicated to the growing field of biomedical engineering.The building, planned for the Homewood campus, will be part of Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering, where biomedical engineering is one of the most popular areas of study among undergraduates.The grant comes from the Whitaker Foundation, a Rosslyn, Va.-based group that has made support of biomedical engineering its specialty."This grant will allow us to move forward into areas of biomedical engineering research that the National Institutes of Health has identified as the high-priority areas for the 21st century," said Murray Sachs, chairman of Hopkins' biomedical engineering department who will head the new Biomedical Engineering Institute.

Already wary of their giant neighbor, East Baltimore residents are accusing Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions of trying to force them out of their neighborhood with low-ball offers to buy their homes.As part of an ambitious redevelopment plan of the broader community, Hopkins confirmed that it needs to relocate 100 to 200 families for an expansion that targets about eight city blocks from Chester Street to Broadway, and Madison Street to Ashland Avenue.Hopkins is considering using the land -- an area dominated by vacant rowhouses and a smattering of small businesses, renters and homeowners -- for parking space and a low-level building to house classrooms or a community-based clinic, officials said.

WITHOUT the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore would be Newark, a former Charm City politician once observed.That's not very charitable to Newark, which has its share of universities and a business climate superior to Baltimore's, at least in the estimation of Donald L. Miller, who said last week he's moving his new national newspaper, Our World News, from here to there.So let's say simply that without Hopkins, Baltimore would be a beggar. Not only are Hopkins and its affiliates the mainstays of the city's economy; they also provide much of the city's cultural and intellectual capital.

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions has filled out its leadership team, formally designating four more senior officials to aid the campus' medical czar, Dr. Edward Miller, in running the university's medical school and research hospital.Miller was placed in charge of the East Baltimore medical complex a year ago and has operated with an ad-hoc group of advisers who are aiding his drive to continue the center's push into the new world of managed care."Now it's time to get some permanency for these things," said Miller, whose formal title is chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the Hopkins School of Medicine.

Medical experts will discuss hysterectomy and its alternatives as well as dozens of other topics concerning women's health on Nov. 22 at the Inner Harbor."

A film series spotlighting the work of Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men dominated February's Academy Awards, will unspool Wednesdays through June in the Mountcastle Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Pre-Clinical Teaching Building, 725 N. Wolfe St. The series kicks off Wednesday with No Country for Old Men, starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and Kelly Macdonald in the sordid tale of...

A black man approached me on Guilford Avenue in Baltimore the other day and struck up a friendly, walk-and-talk conversation about Barack Obama. The conversation lasted only five minutes, and, remarkably, the stranger did most of the talking, ending with this parting shot: Don't dismiss the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's suggestion that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to kill black people as the irrational ravings of an overwrought preacher. "I mean," the man said, "look at what Johns Hopkins did with that sludge.

ELECTIONS Dr. Nancy E. Davidson, director of the breast cancer program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has been elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology for a one-year term beginning in June 2007. She assumed office as president-elect during ASCO's annual meeting in Atlanta last week. Davidson has served in a variety of leadership positions with ASCO, including co-chairwoman of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Expert Panel. Davidson is a specialist in research into the role of hormones -- particularly estrogen -- on gene expression and cell growth, and has led several national clinical trials to explore potential breast cancer therapies.

On February 16, 2006, DOROTHYELIZABETH (nee Lang) SMITH beloved wife of the late Arthur M. Smith Sr., devoted mother of Roger F. Smith Sr., and the late Arthur M. Smith Jr., dear grandmother of Cynthia S. Claffey, Roger F. Smith Jr., and Amy Marie Smith, dear great-grandmother of Jonathan, Aidan and Elise Claffey and Aaron and Abigail Smith. She is also survived by numerous loving nieces and nephews and grand nieces and grand nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook)

The Johns Hopkins Institutions are announcing today an anonymous $100 million donation to support a broad range of projects at the medical and undergraduate campuses. The gift to Hopkins is the largest since 2001, when clothing industry billionaire Sidney Kimmel gave $150 million to the university and the hospital for cancer research and patient care. "It is an extraordinary gift to Hopkins," said Dr. William R. Brody, president of the Johns Hopkins University. The private donation will support stem cell research, the renovation of Gilman Hall on the Homewood campus, initiatives at the School of Public Health and the construction of a $275 million Children's Tower at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is to begin in June.

Owen Hannaway, a Johns Hopkins University historian who focused on science in early modern Europe, died of complications from a stroke Jan. 21 at Keswick Multi-Care Center, where he had lived for three years. He had lived earlier in Guilford. He was 66. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at St. Aloysius College, a Roman Catholic high school. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1957 and his doctorate there eight years later. Concerned about the perils of handling explosive compounds that would be a part of working as a chemist, he decided to focus on the history of chemistry, family members said.

The nonfiction book of this summer (dalliance division) is Eleanor Herman's Sex With Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (Morrow, 287 pages, $25.95). Herman, native to Baltimore (and a history student while at Towson University), now lives in Virginia. She has been prowling the archives; she knows where the bodies were before burial; she writes and you are shocked! and giggling, and in favor of royalty -- so long as it keeps its full oceanic distance. The author, alas, seems to have nothing on Queen Victoria.

Dr. Thomas Bourne Turner, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died yesterday afternoon at his Bolton Hill home, where he had lived for nearly 60 years. He was 100. "He just took a nap and fell asleep," said his daughter Pattie Turner Walker of Ipswich, Mass. The medical school's dean from 1957 to 1968, he also studied infectious diseases, including polio. During World War II, he played a leading role in the Army's program to eradicate syphilis. During his stewardship, the size of the medical school's physical plant doubled, the annual operating budget increased 500 percent, the faculty nearly doubled, and biophysics, laboratory animal medicine and biomedical engineering departments were added.

President Bush has decided to name a senior scientist and administrator at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to become director of the National Institutes of Health, ending a long and politically sensitive search for new leadership, a government official confirmed last night. Bush's choice to head the giant bio-medical research institution in Bethesda is Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, executive vice dean of the medical school and a driving force behind the university's new Institute for Cell Engineering.

City's efforts to revive housing, retail areas enhance one another The editorial "Going after derelicts" (Jan. 30) neglected to mention that people still live in the portion of East Baltimore The Sun characterizes as a "wasteland of crumbling, abandoned rowhouses," and that substantial efforts are underway to address the impact of the proposed redevelopment of the area north and east of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions upon those residents....