Robert Morris Heyssel Sr. (June 19, 1928 – June 13, 2001) was President of

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from 1982 to 1992.

Biography

Born in

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, Heyssel received his

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from the

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and his

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. After serving with the

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and

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between 1956 and 1958, he returned to the United States as a fellow in

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Career At Johns Hopkins

Heyssel moved to Johns Hopkins in 1968, taking up the position of Associate Dean of the School of Medicine, and was named president in 1982. During his presidency he oversaw an ambitious program of building and redevelopment, and his role in this project is commemorated at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, whose outpatient center building is named in his memory. In addition to expanding the hospital throughout his career, Heyssel also created the Johns Hopkins Health Plan, which shifted the status of care in the hospital to

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, creating thousands of jobs in the process. Under his presidency, several failing Baltimore hospitals came into the possession of Johns Hopkins, all of which were eventually renovated and combined to form the

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Death

Heyssel died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 72.

References

External links

Obituary: Robert Heyssel, Hopkins Hospital President Emeritus
at the JHMI Office of Communications * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heyssel, Robert M. 1928 births 2001 deaths American hematologists Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians People from Moniteau County, Missouri Saint Louis University alumni University of Missouri alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine