FRANCES WATT BAKER and LENOX D. BAKER JR., both A&S 1963, Med 1966, have strong family ties to Hopkins, where they met as students. Frances Baker, who trained as a pediatrician, is a member of the Alumni Council. Lenox Baker, a senior partner in Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Norfolk, Virginia, is a trustee of both the University and Johns Hopkins Medicine and co-chaired the Johns Hopkins Initiative. More than a dozen of the Bakers' relatives also are Hopkins affiliated, including both of their fathers--Lenox D. Baker Sr., who served as chief resident in orthopaedic surgery in the l930s, and the late James Watt, Med 1935, SPH 1936 (M.P.H.), who served on the public health faculty--as well as their oldest daughter, Sarah Baker, SPH 1995 (M.P.H.). This was the first endowed deanship created at Johns Hopkins and is one of only a handful at medical schools nationwide.

"Sometimes the reward from giving to Hopkins comes in the brilliant career of a scholarship student, and sometimes it comes in a miraculous medical breakthrough. We can guarantee there is tremendous enjoyment in seeing your gift make a difference." Frances W. and Lenox D. Baker

EDWARD D. MILLER, the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty, is chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Miller came to Johns Hopkins in 1994 as director of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and was appointed dean in 1997. He held the Mark C. Rogers Chair in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine until 1999. Regarded as one of the most outstanding anesthesiologists in the country, he is the first person in the history of Hopkins to serve jointly as CEO and dean, directing both the Hospital/Health System and the School of Medicine. "In these times of tremendous change in the health care marketplace, academic medical institutions face serious financial constraints," Dr. Miller observes. "The income from the endowment the Bakers so generously created provides me with the flexibility to launch innovative teaching and clinical initiatives, as well as to support exciting work by younger investigators that holds great promise. The Baker Deanship endowment touches every aspect of the work we do at Johns Hopkins Medicine."