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Sub-series 3a9 : Alfred Sommer Correspondence, Dean's Office, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (1990-2005)

Description

Key

299901

Reference Code Element

3a9

Type

Text

Dates

1990-2005

Creator

Personal name, Sommer, Alfred

Administrative/Biographical History

Alfred Sommer was born in New York City. He received a B.S. from Union College in 1963, an M.D. from Harvard University in 1967 and a M.H.S. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1973. After completing a medical residency at Beth Isreal Hospital in Boston, Sommer started his career at the Center for Disease Control (USPS). From 1970 to 1972, he was the medical epidemiologist at the Cholera Research Laboratory in Dacca, Bangladesh. Sommer returned to the United States for a year's fellowship in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health before continuing his professional training as a resident and fellow in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1973 to 1976. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Padjadjaran and Director of the Nutritional Blindness Prevention Research Program in Bandung, Indonesia. It was here that Sommer performed his pioneering research on the value of Vitamin A in preventing blindness and disease in third world populations. He was appointed as the founding director of the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1980 and rose through the academic ranks becoming a professor of ophthalmology, epidemiology and international health by 1985. Sommer was appointed Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1990. During his tenure as dean (1990-2005), the school was renamed the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is presently dean emeritus. , Dean of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1990-2005

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Wilmer Eye Institute, 1973-

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1976-

Scope and Content

Materials comprise the correspondence files for the Office of the Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health during Alfred Sommer's deanship.

Related Archival Material

Additional Henderson material is located in the Alfred Sommer personal paper collection.

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