1969-1991, inclusive

Personal name, Heyssel, Robert

Robert M. Heyssel
19 Jun 1928-13 Jun 2001
Robert M. Heyssel was born in Jamestown, Missouri. He received his B.S. in 1951 from the University of Missouri and his M.D. in 1953 from St. Louis University. In 1956, he joined the U.S. Public Health Service as a senior assistant surgeon and was stationed at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, for two years. After returning to the United States, he did a fellowship in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis, then spent ten years at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Heyssel began his tenure at Johns Hopkins in 1968 as an associate dean of the school of medicine and as an administrator of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was named president and trustee of the hospital in 1983 and trustee of the university in 1986. Heyssel launched the Johns Hopkins Health System in 1986, and served as its president until his retirement in 1992. During his two decades of leadership, the Johns Hopkins Hospital underwent two major phases of physical redevelopment, including construction of the Oncology Center, the Nelson Patient Tower, the Harvey Teaching Tower, the Meyer Building for Psychiatry and Neurosciences, the Clayton Heart Center, the Maumenee Building of the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, whose main building bears his name.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1968-2001

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1973-2001

Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health