Hopkins Medical Institutions

First came Sandtown-Winchester, an ambitious plan to pool together public and private resources to revitalize a declining West Baltimore neighborhood. Now it's the eastside's turn.A plan being developed targets the decrepit area around the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute for massive changes. Bounded roughly by North Avenue and Biddle Street on the north, Patterson Park and Montford avenues on the east, Fayette Street on the south and Broadway, Eden and Asquith streets on the west, the area is twice the size of Sandtown-Winchester.

The Johns Hopkins University moved yesterday to plug a gap in its administration, naming anesthesiologist Edward D. Miller to be interim dean of the school of medicine, effective March 1.Dr. Michael E. Johns, the current dean, said in December that he would leave Hopkins in June to become chancellor of medical affairs at Emory University. The announcement of his departure, along with that of Executive Vice Dean David A. Blake in January, sparked an outcry among some medical professors who were concerned that they would not be ably represented as Johns Hopkins' medical institutions enter the new marketplace of managed health care.

A memorial service for Dr. Robert A. Milch, who had been both an orthopedic surgeon and a business owner and teacher, will be held at 5 p.m. today at the Baltimore Museum of Art.Dr. Milch, who was 61, died Tuesday of complications to cancer at his home in Pikesville.Since 1989, he had been senior adviser to the Triad Investors Corp., a for-profit subsidiary of the Johns Hopkins University.From 1981 until 1989, Dr. Milch led IGENE Biotechnology Inc., a Columbia company he started.During the late 1970s, he was a professor of management and director of the Executive Graduate Programs in Management at the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College.

Six months after preservationists raised a howl of protest about plans by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to tear down the former Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in East Baltimore, administrators have chosen another site to build a $130 million cancer center.Dr. James A. Block, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, announced yesterday that Hopkins trustees have selected a 72,000-square-foot parking lot at the northeast corner of Broadway and Orleans Street as the "final site" to build the cancer center, starting next spring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions are expanding an old hospital building on the Hopkins Bayview Research Campus in East Baltimore to house a new Behavioral Biology Research Center, which is scheduled to open in late summer.Gould Architects P.A. is the designer for the 70,000-square-foot project, which involves a 30,000-square-foot addition to the former "G Building," one of the structures that make up the Francis Scott Key Medical Center.The new center is a collaboration between Hopkins' Department of Psychiatry, the Key Medical Center and scientists at the federal government's Addiction Research Center.

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.