Renewal of Johns Hopkins collaboration

Paul Rothman signing the agreement with Professor Sir Robert Lechler.

Last week King’s Health Partners and Johns Hopkins Medicine in the United States agreed to renew an international collaboration in research, education and clinical services, as well as the successful staff exchange programme between the two organisations.

On Tuesday 16 July and Wednesday 17 July King’s Health Partners welcomed to London three guests from Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore. The delegation included Paul Rothman, Dean and Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine; Landon King, Vice Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Szabolcs Dorotovics, Managing Director of Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

The group met with a wide variety of staff, academics and clinicians as well as the King’s Health Partners Board to find out more about the Academic Health Sciences Centre and discuss how to develop and enhance the collaboration. They toured the Clinical Research Facility at Denmark Hill, the Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s Hospital and spent time in the historic Gordon Museum of Pathology at King’s College London.

The visit culminated with King’s Health Partners and Johns Hopkins agreeing to continue their partnership at a signing ceremony. The historic links between the organisations were first established in 1947.

Professor Sir Robert Lechler, Executive Director of King’s Health Partners, said: 'Collaborating with Johns Hopkins Medicine offers great opportunities for discovery and improvement. Although our approaches in some areas are quite different, both our organisations are committed to pioneering excellence in research, education and patient care, and there is much that we can learn from one another. I look forward to strengthening our collaboration and seeing the fruits of the work we carry out together.'

The renewed partnership includes an exchange programme that will allow small delegations of staff each year to visit each organisation and spend time learning and sharing information in specific areas of research, education and clinical care.

Johns Hopkins is based in Baltimore, Maryland and is a $6.5 billion integrated health enterprise and the first healthcare system of its kind to combine excellence in research, teaching and patient care in an academic health sciences model.  

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