Johns Hopkins Medicine has built a reputation for excellence unsurpassed by any health care institution in the world. Pioneers in their fields, Johns Hopkins clinicians and scientists have been responsible for many of the last century’s major discoveries and innovations in patient care and research. Because of our global reach, people from around the world come to Johns Hopkins, confident they will receive the most comprehensive medical care available anywhere.

The story of Johns Hopkins is—at its heart—a story of philanthropy. Johns Hopkins Medicine owes its existence, and its continuing excellence, to the generosity of private individuals. Philanthropy allows Johns Hopkins Medicine to continue its ongoing efforts as a leader in innovative and compassionate treatment, groundbreaking research, and cutting-edge education.

Share Our Vision

Envision

We’re not going to ask you to dream with us.  Dreams are wonderful things, things you might think about and sigh, and wish the world were a different kind of place.  But they don’t often come true.

Instead, we’d like to invite you to share our vision.  The big difference between a dream and a vision, at least the way we look at it, is that with a vision comes a plan for how we’re going to make it happen

At the Center for Innovative Medicine, we envision a world where Medicine is a Public Trust.  We believe that making this happen requires three things:

• Putting the interests of the patient, family, and community first;
• Promoting collaboration among scientists, clinicians and teachers; and
• Creating a culture that encourages all of the people who work for a medical system to feel that they are part of something important.

Although we love technology and promote its wise use, in the end, the changes we are talking about mainly come down to people.  To talking, and listening, and working together, and valuing each other, and trying to make life better through making medicine better.

The CIM needs philanthropy. We wouldn’t be here without it. We might have great ideas, but they would just be talk at the water cooler or wishful thinking over coffee or at a meeting. Academic medicine doesn’t really fund great ideas. Federal funding supports specific hypotheses, mapped out and likely to answer a specific question. But the government doesn’t quite know what to do with ideas like, “How can we teach doctors to know their patients as people?”  That’s where the CIM comes in. The ideas that we generate, explore, nurture, and advance, are made possible only with philanthropic support. If you like what we’re doing here and you would like to help, we’d love to talk with you.

Please Contact:

Kimberly Constantine
Executive Director of Development
Department of Medicine
Fund for Hopkins Medicine
5200 Eastern Avenue
MFL Center Tower, Vice Chairman’s Office, Suite 314
Baltimore, MD 21224
443-604-2940

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