Nadia Hansel Appointed Director of the Department of Medicine

To Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation leadership and the school of medicine community

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that Nadia Hansel has been named director of the Department of Medicine, after serving in this role on an interim basis since the fall of 2022. Dr. Hansel is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She previously served as director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine and associate dean of research at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She will be the first woman to lead the storied Department of Medicine in its 131-year history.*

Dr. Hansel is a world-renowned investigator and accomplished physician leader whose research focuses on environmental determinants of obstructive lung diseases. She is widely recognized as an expert in defining the effects of indoor air quality on asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and in understanding how the environment and neighborhoods contribute to health disparities in lung disease. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency, and it has led to more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Hansel is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She also serves on numerous editorial boards, on advisory boards and in professional organizations, and she is a frequent invited speaker nationally and internationally.

Since joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2004, Dr. Hansel has received national and international recognition for her work. In the school of medicine, for her commitment to training future physician-scientists, she received the David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award and the Dr. Susan M. MacDonald Department of Medicine Annual Sponsorship Award.

Dr. Hansel earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hansel on her appointment.

Sincerely,

Theodore L. DeWeese, M.D.
The Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N.
President, Johns Hopkins Health System
Executive Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine

*Sir William Osler was named Physician-in-Chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889. Dr. Hansel is also the first woman to hold this title in the hospital's 135-year history.