JAMES FRIES, Med 1964, Osler House Staff 1966, Fellowship in Arthritis, 1968, and SARAH TILTON FRIES created this professorship to encourage the Clinical Scholar who acts as a "change agent" to improve health and the medical care system. Preference will be given to a faculty member engaged in health outcomes research, clinical epidemiology, and/or health policy relevant research. Dr. Fries is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is internationally recognized for his Compression of Morbidity hypothesis. He is also the co-author of the book Take Care of Yourself, which provides patients techniques for making appropriate decisions.

NEIL R. POWE, inaugural James F. Fries Professor and University Distinguished Service Professor, is professor of medicine and director of Hopkins’ Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a research and training center, and co-directs the Division of General Internal Medicine. He holds appointments as professor of epidemiology and health policy and management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and directs its clinical epidemiology program. Dr. Powe developed innovative multidisciplinary training and career development programs in clinical research including the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholars Program and the Johns Hopkins Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program. He has trained hundreds of fellow clinical researchers and medical students over the past 20 years and is committed to promoting diversity in medical research. An expert in the treatment of chronic kidney disease, his work has touched millions of patients.