Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Colleges Advisory Program

Upon matriculation, medical students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are divided into four colleges named after Hopkins faculty members who have had an impact in the history of medicine, Florence Sabin, Vivien Thomas, Daniel Nathans, and Helen Taussig. The colleges were established in 2005.^[20]

In each incoming class, 30 students are assigned to each college, and each college is further subdivided into six molecules of five students each. Each molecule is advised and taught by a faculty advisor, who instructs them in Clinical Foundations of Medicine, a core first-year course, and continues advising them throughout their four years of medical school. The family within each college of each molecule across the four years who belong to a given advisor is referred to as a macromolecule. Every year, the colleges compete in the "College Olympics" in late October, a competition that includes athletic events and sports, as well as art battles and dance-offs.^[21]

Nobel laureates

As of 2024, 29 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Johns Hopkins University as faculty, fellows, residents, or graduates, with 17 out of the 29 being associated with the School of Medicine specifically, including 15 out of the university's 18 laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and 2 out of the university's 6 laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Two laureates, Peter Agre and Gregg Semenza, are current faculty at the School of Medicine.^[22]

The 1985 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Two of the six founding members of the organization, Bernard Lown (M.D. 1945) and James E. Muller (M.D. 1969) were graduates of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.^[23]

• Gregg L. Semenza – Professor of Genetic Medicine (1990–present), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019
• William Kaelin Jr. – Resident, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019
• Carol Greider – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (2014–2020), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
• Richard Axel – M.D. 1971, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004
• Peter Agre – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (2014–present), M.D. 1974, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• David H. Hubel – Neuroscience Fellow (1958–59), former resident, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981
• Torsten Wiesel – Assistant Professor (1958–59), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981
• Hamilton O. Smith – Professor of Microbiology (1973–1998), M.D. 1956, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978
• Daniel Nathans – Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics (1967–1999), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978
• Haldan Keffer Hartline – M.D. 1927, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1967
• Francis Peyton Rous – M.D. 1905, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
• Vincent du Vigneaud^[24] – National Research Council Fellow (1927-28) Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• Joseph Erlanger – Associate Professor of Physiology (1904–06), M.D. 1899, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1944
• Herbert Spencer Gasser – M.D. 1915, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1944
• George Minot^[25] – Resident, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1934
• George Whipple – Associate Professor in Pathology (1910–14), M.D. 1905, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1934

Notable faculty

• John Jacob Abel, pharmacologist, founder and chair of the first department of pharmacology in the U.S.
• Alfred Blalock, developed field of cardiac surgery, including the Blalock–Taussig shunt
• Max Brödel, medical illustrator who illustrated for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, and Howard Atwood Kelly
• William R. Brody, former radiologist-in-chief, former president of Johns Hopkins University (1996–2009), former president of the Salk Institute (2009–2015)
• Ben Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon, presidential candidate, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

  

• Harvey Cushing, considered the "father of modern neurosurgery" who identified Cushing's syndrome and the Cushing ulcer
• Walter Dandy, neurosurgeon and the namesake of the Dandy–Walker syndrome
• William Halsted, considered the "father of modern surgery" and one of four founders of Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Howard A. Howe, polio researcher
• Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist and psychiatry professor and author of An Unquiet Mind^[26]
• Leo Kanner, "father of child psychiatry" who first described autism in Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, published in 1943
• Howard Kelly, physician credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty
• William B. Kouwenhoven, electrical engineer who developed the external defibrillator and helped develop cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Marty Makary, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Paul R. McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins
• Victor A. McKusick, developed the field of medical genetics, namesake of McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, and founder of OMIM, Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award
• Adolf Meyer, first psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins
• John Money, psychologist and sexologist who pioneered gender identity research, coining the terms gender role and sexual orientation
• Vernon Mountcastle, neuroscientist and Lasker Award winner
• William Osler, considered the "father of modern medicine", discovered Osler–Weber–Rendu syndrome, a hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
• Solomon H. Snyder, neuroscientist, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on the opioid receptor
• Vivien Thomas, the surgical technician and one of the namesakes of the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt. Thomas, an African-American, did not initially receive credit due to racial discrimination. His story was detailed in the 2004 HBO documentary Something the Lord Made^[27]
• Bert Vogelstein, oncologist and pioneer in cancer genetics, first explained the role of p53 in cancer
• William H. Welch, pathologist known as the dean of American Medicine, and the first Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Elias Zerhouni, radiologist and former director of the National Institutes of Health

Notable alumni

• Fuller Albright, endocrinologist who discovered Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy and McCune–Albright syndrome
• Dorothy Hansine Andersen, identified cystic fibrosis and Andersen's disease
• John Auer, physiologist and pharmacologist, namesake of the Auer rod in acute myeloid leukemia
• Denton Cooley, cardiovascular surgeon
• Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., described Li–Fraumeni syndrome
• Ernest William Goodpasture, pathologist who described Goodpasture syndrome
• Andy Harris, U.S. Congressman
• Tinsley R. Harrison, cardiologist and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
• Harry Klinefelter, rheumatologist, endocrinologist, and namesake of Klinefelter syndrome
• Leroy Hood, invented automated DNA and protein sequencing, Lasker Award winner
• Maclyn McCarty, his 1944 experiment helped demonstrate that genes were made of DNA, rather than protein, first recipient of the Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award
• Wilder Penfield, pioneer of epilepsy neurosurgery who developed the cortical homunculus
• Peter Pronovost, former anesthesiology faculty, Time 100 in 2008, authored over 800 articles and book chapters on patient safety, advisor to the World Health Organization's World Alliance for Patient Safety
• Mark M. Ravitch, surgeon who pioneered modern surgical staples
• Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, pathologist and namesake of Reed–Sternberg cell in Hodgkin's lymphoma
• David Sabatini, former Howard Hughes Investigator and molecular biologist who discovered mTOR, the mammalian target of rapamycin
• Florence Sabin, first woman to hold a full professorship at a medical school, Albert Lasker Public Service Award for public health activism in her home state Colorado
• Mark Schlissel, president emeritus of the University of Michigan
• Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright
• Rochelle Walensky, Director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)