| Office of the President March 2008 Dear Colleagues and Friends: It is an exciting time at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). From innovative student opportunities to cutting-edge research, our commitment to improving lives has never been greater. In Fiscal Year 2007, UMB researchers attracted $411 million in sponsored project awards, the largest dollar volume in UMB’s history. The School of Medicine expanded its area of expertise by adding two world-class leaders and their research teams. The Institute of Human Virology, headed by renowned HIV researcher Robert Gallo, MD, became the School’s first official institute. And Claire Fraser-Liggett, PhD, was named to head the School’s Institute for Genome Sciences. The School of Law created a new exchange program with the School of Law of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China. This program will allow four Maryland students to study international and comparative business law at CUFE each fall semester and four CUFE students to visit Maryland each spring. Tackling the lack of dental care in the indigent population, especially among the young, Dental School students and staff performed free oral health screenings for 400 preschoolers at a city Head Start center in October. The School also announced a partnership agreement in January to provide dental care in Cecil County. A 26-chair oral health suite will provide pediatric and adult dental services, with dental residents working three-week rotations assisted by students, faculty, hygienists, and support staff. The School of Pharmacy's new dean, Natalie D. Eddington, PhD '89, embarked on an era of expansion by kicking off the School’s new program at the Universities at Shady Grove in Montgomery County, allowing for the training of an extra 40 students per year. Supporting the School of Nursing’s recent steps to ease the nursing shortage, Gov. Martin O’Malley allocated additional funding toward the effort. The School will use the funds to hire more faculty, to expand classroom space, and to buy equipment. The School of Social Work played a leading role in a national study of foster care reimbursement rates, which is inspiring reform. Now School officials are working with the Maryland General Assembly to strengthen the Child Welfare Accountability Act of 2006. Building Two of the UMB BioPark opened, expanding Maryland’s bioscience sector with what eventually will be 1.2 million square feet of lab and office space in 10 buildings for bioscience businesses, creating 2,500 jobs and generating $500 million in capital investment.
With a spirit of collaboration, the University continues to impact lives around the globe. Powerful examples of this fill the new issue of our award-winning Maryland magazine, available at http://www.oea.umaryland.edu/communications/magazine/ . That sense of collaboration brings us to our biggest joint project—the $650 million "Making An Impact Worldwide" capital campaign that we kicked off during Founders Week in October. Tomorrow’s dentists, lawyers, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and social workers all benefit directly from the generosity of our alumni and friends. Find more information at http://capitalcampaign.umaryland.edu/ . I invite you to be a part of our bright future. My best wishes to you and your family in the busy months ahead. Sincerely, David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil
President
Dr. David J. Ramsay became the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the state’s academic health, law and social work center of learning, in 1994. The University, which is located in downtown Baltimore near the Inner Harbor, includes schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and social work and an interdisciplinary graduate school. The campus is closely associated with the University of Maryland Medical System, the university’s affiliated hospital system. As president of the University, Dr. Ramsay sits on the board of directors of this hospital system. Dr. Ramsay was educated at Oxford University in England, where he received his baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, and medical degrees. He later joined the faculty at Oxford, where he was a university lecturer and fellow, and medical tutor at Corpus Christi College. Prior to his appointment at the University of Maryland, Dr. Ramsay served for more than a decade as senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of California, San Francisco. In June 2000, Dr. Ramsay was named one of Baltimore's "Most Influential Leaders" by the Baltimore Business Journal. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a past member of its foundation board, and a past board member of the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC). Dr. Ramsay received the GBC's 2004 Regional Visionary Award. Dr. Ramsay is the past chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers and was recently appointed its first foreign secretary. He also serves on the boards of GBC; the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.; the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc., board of directors; and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Dr. Ramsay’s efforts have been instrumental in the redevelopment of the west side of Baltimore, not only through community and business partnerships, but also through the development of the UMB BioPark. The first building of the extensive biotechnology park, which promotes bioscience innovation and collaborative research opportunities, opened in October 2005.
Born: 1939
Hometown: London
Residence: Severna Park
Titles and Department: - President
- Professor, School of Medicine
Education: 1982
University of Oxford (DM)
Oxford University 1966
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, Clinical Medicine (BM, BCh) 1963
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, Doctorate in Physiology (DPhil, MA) 1960
Worcester College, Oxford, Preclinical Sciences and Physiology (BA) Professional: 1994-present
University of Maryland, Baltimore
President
1994-present
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Department of Physiology
Professor 1982-1994
University of California, San Francisco
Senior Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs 1980-1981
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Acting Chair 1978-1994
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Professor 1977-1982
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Graduate Adviser for Physiology Program
1976-1982
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Vice Chair 1975-1978
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Associate Professor 1974
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Physiology
Visiting Associate Professor 1966-1975
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Tutorial Fellow in Physiology and Medicine 1966-1975
Oxford University, Laboratory of Physiology
University Lecturer in Physiology 1965-1966
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Lecturer in Physiology 1963-1966
Oxford University, Laboratory of Physiology
Demonstrator in Physiology
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