The first comprehensive history of Hopkins Medicine in more than twenty
years, Leading the Way not only recounts the exceptional achievements
of Hopkins physicians, researchers, teachers, and students since 1889
but chronicles the extraordinary expansion and accomplishments of
Hopkins Medicine over the past two decades.
Within the last twenty years, dozens of multidisciplinary research
institutes and centers have been created to expand the frontiers of
research in such wide-ranging fields as genetic medicine, biomedicine,
cell engineering, cardiovascular care, ALS (amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease), and patient safety. In addition, a
completely new medical school curriculum was formulated; four
hospitals--two in Maryland, one in Washington, D.C., and one in
Florida--joined the Hopkins Medicine family; and Johns Hopkins Medicine
International was founded, expanding Hopkins' global influence
exponentially.
Hopkins Medicine has endured and overcome significant challenges and
crises while still maintaining its status as the best-known health care
institution in the world--with the Johns Hopkins Hospital alone being
named the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report for an incredible
twenty-one consecutive years. Hopkins Medicine has been the subject of
award-winning television programs and best-selling books, and its
faculty continues to garner recognition for outstanding achievements,
including MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards, National Medals of
Science, Presidential Medals of Freedom, and Nobel Prizes.
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred photographs, most in
color, Leading the Way provides all those interested in the story of
Johns Hopkins Medicine--even just the advances in medicine itself over
the past twenty years--a lively and riveting account of how Hopkins
remains in the forefront of medical education, research, and patient
care.
