Ronald Peterson
Ronald R. Peterson has spent the last four-plus decades helping take Johns Hopkins Medicine to new heights. Today, the hospital system announced he plans to retire this year.
Peterson, who earned his bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1970, has served in a variety of roles for the institution over the last 44 years. He’s worked as an administrator in the school’s psychiatry department and for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and in later years as president of the Bayview Medical Center and, for two decades, of the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital.
During his time at the helm, the hospital maintained its ranking as U.S. News and World Report’s best-rated hospital in the country for 22 of 25 straight years, according to his biography. He also oversaw the opening of a new cancer center and an expansion that spawned two new hospital towers for adult and pediatric patients, among many other changes.
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