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William R. Brody
File:William R Brody.jpg
13th President of the Johns Hopkins University
In office 1996 – March 3, 2008
Preceded by	Daniel Nathans
Succeeded by	Ronald J. Daniels
Personal details
Born	(1944-01-04) January 4, 1944 Stockton, California
Spouse	Wendy Brody
Children	Ingrid and John
Alma mater	Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California San Francisco
Website	salk.edu/about/brody.html

William (Bill) Ralph Brody (born January 4, 1944) is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.

Education

Brody attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied electrical engineering, earning both a B.S. and a M.S. degree. He then received his M.D. and electrical engineering Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. After obtaining these degrees, Brody completed his post-graduate training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco.

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Brody received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, the latter also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. He continued his post-graduate training at the University of California, San Francisco where he completed a residency in diagnostic radiology in 1977.

- https://www.salk.edu/scientist/william-brody-2/

Career

Professorships

From 1977 to 1986, Brody was employed at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He held numerous titles including professor of radiology and electrical engineering, director of the Advanced Imaging Techniques Laboratory, and director of Research Laboratories - Division of Diagnostic Radiology.

Brody then shifted to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1987 where he occupied many positions. He served as the Martin W. Donner Professor of Radiology, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and radiologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

- https://www.salk.edu/scientist/william-brody-2/

Administration

On September 1, 1996, Brody returned to Hopkins after stepping down from his role of provost at the University of Minnisota and became the university's thirteenth president. Brody was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He was the highest-paid university president in the United States, receiving $897,786 in 2004, and regained the title in 2007. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008. This was postponed to March 3, 2009 upon Hopkins naming Ronald Daniels, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania its next President. On October 13, 2008, the Salk Institute announced that Brody would join their staff as president as of March 2009. On May 21, 2009, an honorary doctorate was conferred on him by The Johns Hopkins University.

He serves as a director of Medtronic, an international medical device company, and is on the board of directors of IBM.

- https://www.myesr.org/article/20. (use this for most of career section)

Entrepreneurship

In addition to teaching and being an administrator, Brody took on personal scientific efforts of his own. He is a co-founder of medical device companies and continued his studies in radiology, specifically in the filed of medical imaging, for which he obtained his own United States patent.

Brody has made numerous notable contributions in a variety of fields causing many organizations to recognize him for his accomplishments. He received the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America in 2010 for his improvements to this field. He also has more than 100 publications and is a member of many associations in a diverse array of fields of medicine.

Personal Life

With his wife, Wendy, he has two children: Ingrid and John. Brody is also a certified commercial pilot and flight instructor.

Legacy

Brody Learning Commons

The Brody Learning Commons was officially opened in August of 2012. This building is a connection to Johns Hopkins' already existing Milton S. Eisenhower Library and it was named in the honor of former university president William R. Brody and his wife, Wendy. Opening this new study space left Brody with a strong connection to the university. Brody and his wife, Wendy, stated: “We always considered ourselves very lucky to have such smart, talented young people as our neighbors. Having a place where students will gather to study and learn named after us feels like we get to keep a piece of Hopkins with us forever.”

This is the outside of the Brody Learning Commons at the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University.

The building has several features dedicated to the facilitation of learning and collaboration for the students at Johns Hopkins University. Natural light pours through the floor to ceiling glass walls, an architectural design desired by surveyed students and faculty. The building contains several collaborative study rooms that can be reserved by groups of students and that contain projectors and white-board walls. Equipped with a reading room, sitting 100 students, six seminar rooms, and a café, Brody Learning Commons has encouraged the continuation of higher education at Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, this new building houses the Milton S. Eisenhower's special collections department, providing students and faculty direct interaction with preserved sources and artifacts to use for research or personal observation.

This attachment to the library has allowed room for more than a third of the existing seating capacity, allowing for student collaboration. Additionally, the building features various interactive forms of technology, ranging from projectors to video equipment for student use.

- https://releases.jhu.edu/2012/09/04/brody-learning-commons-opens-at-johns-hopkins-homewood-campus/

Fundraising Success

- https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2008-03-11-0803110083-story.html

External links

• Official site