Kathleen Sutcliffe Appointed to Carey Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship
Johns Hopkins University has appointed three scholars to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships. These new faculty positions have been created to foster collaboration across the institution’s many divisions and to help address major world problems.
Of the three appointments, Kathleen Sutcliffe, an organizational sociologist focused on organizational reliability and safety, is one of the new professors who will have appointments in the John Hopkins Carey Business School as well as the School of Medicine’s Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety.
Sutcliffe will participate in the individualized health care delivery initiative, a university wide effort to make world-class, affordable health care a reality. She has studied how top executives can influence a firm’s performance and ways to prevent medical mishaps in the health care field ad is internationally recognized for her research in management and health care.
The other new Bloomberg Professors are Patricia H. Janak, a neuroscientist specializing in associative learning and addiction, and Stephen Morgan, a sociologist with expertise in education and inequality. Sutcliffe, Janak, and Morgan will begin their new roles July 1.
“We congratulate Patricia Janak, Stephen Morgan, and Kathleen Sutcliffe on their selection,” said Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels and Robert C. Lieberman, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, in a message to the Johns Hopkins community. “We are excited to work with them as we marshal the creativity and expertise of our faculty in disparate fields to solve our greatest global challenges.”
The appointments were made possible by a $350 million gift made in January 2013 by Johns Hopkins alumnus and New York City mayor from 2002-2013, Michael R. Bloomberg.
“Johns Hopkins remains truly grateful for Michael R. Bloomberg’s ongoing support of our mission and our efforts to deepen our capacity for collaboration,” Daniels and Lieberman said. “Without his exceptional generosity, we wouldn’t be able to welcome such wonderful talent to our community of scholars.”
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