Faculty 2023

For the past fifteen years, as Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs, for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Steve Rum has been the leader of the development organization that has generated on average over $1billion dollars every four years. This fundraising organization with over 200 employees and raising on average $350m per year in the past five years and is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The development operation encompasses four affiliated hospitals, sixteen clinical departments, the Institute of Basic Sciences and an alumni affairs department.

Mr. Rum is known for his success in leadership philanthropy. Under his direction, the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine raised $375 million for Sheikh Zayed Tower and the Bloomberg Children’s Center; he has secured gifts of $100M, $75m and $65m to support capital projects and the creation of Institutes. He directed the medical development effort for the Johns Hopkins University Knowledge for the World campaign, in which Hopkins became the first academic medical center to reach the $2 billion mark. Through his leadership spanning twenty- four years in Academic Medicine, he has led both Johns Hopkins Medicine and Duke University Medicine in raising over $5billion. The largest amount of any individual in Medicine. As a result of his leadership training, five members of his staff on gone on to become Vice Presidents of Development at other intuitions in Higher Education and Medicine.

Steve Rum, is also founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Philanthropy Institute (JHMPI). The institute was created based on the compelling need in medical development to enhance the professional skills of senior development officers and to also create a research platform for the advancement of the profession in medicine. For the first time in medical development, a research project was published in a medical journal (AAMC) and cited in the prestigious publications of Science and Nature. Additionally this landmark study on physician engagement is now being incorporated as a best practice at medical centers around the country. Recently through his initiative, he launched a national summit on the ethics of medical fundraising associated with grateful patients, physicians and institutions. This has resulted in a published paper in the journals of the AAMC and JAMA in 2018. It is the only document of its kind that has guidelines for institutions and their physicians on the practice of grateful patient fundraising. The JHMPI strategic plan and the Summer Institute program reflect Steve’s capacity to think beyond the walls of his own institution and the bounds of his own career; they embody his desire to advance the effectiveness, quality, and stature of medical development as a credible profession.

Steve’s professional fundraising career began with Special Olympics International in Washington, DC, where he was Assistant Vice President for Development and Marketing (1988-1991). He then served as Assistant Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Children’s National Medical Center Foundation in Washington (1991-1994), and as Vice Chancellor for Development and Alumni Affairs at Duke University Medical Center (1994-2005). At Duke, he led a seven-year campaign, Keeping the Promise of Medicine, during which he and his team exceeded their campaign goal of $600 million by more than $100 million.

Mr. Rum earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgia Southern University, and his master’s degree in administration from Ohio University. From 1978 to 1983, he played professional baseball in Italy and Japan.

Michelle L. Glennon, Esq., serves as Associate Vice President at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine providing leadership and strategic direction for private sector fundraising in support of thirteen clinical departments Brady Urological Institute, Children’s Center, Wilmer Eye Institute Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Surgery Programs (Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Plastics/Reconstructive Surgery), and Departmental Programs (Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, GYN/OB, Pathology, Radiology); the School of Medicine, and the four Johns Hopkins Medicine partner hospitals: Johns Hopkins All Children’s, Sibley Memorial, Suburban, and Howard County General.

She is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Development and Alumni Relations executive team and the senior management team for the Fund. Both teams provide strategic oversight for development activities, including comprehensive campaigns. The Rising to the Challenge Campaign successfully closed in the fall of 2018 raising a record-setting $6 billion including $2.86 billion for Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Ms. Glennon is part of the faculty for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Philanthropy Institute. The Institute strives to elevate medical development through advanced professional training and research. She serves on the Institute’s committee to develop guidelines for ethical issues related to grateful patient fundraising which has published several articles including, Ethical Issues and Recommendations in Grateful Patient Fundraising and Philanthropy in Academic Medicine in 2018.

From 2007 to fall 2014, Ms. Glennon was the Senior Director of Gift Planning and Senior Philanthropic Advisor for Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. She developed and implemented the strategic plan for gift planning’s role of 20% ($900 million) in the Rising campaign, led the team to raise over $420 million, and launched both the Johns Hopkins Donor Advised Fund and the Johns Hopkins Legacy Society.

Ms. Glennon joined the Johns Hopkins Office of Gift Planning in 2001 from the advancement team at Loyola University, Baltimore, her undergraduate alma mater. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and prior to her development career, practiced law with Ober|Kaler, a national firm based in Baltimore/D.C. Michelle, husband Garret, and their two daughters live in Towson, MD. She enjoys volunteering at her church, daughters’ school and community children’s theater.

Dr. Justin C. McArthur is nationally and internationally recognized for his work in studying the natural history, development and treatment of HIV infection, multiple sclerosis, neurological infections and immune-mediated neurological disorders.

He serves as the director of the Department of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins University, Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins/National Institute of Mental Health Research Center for Novel Therapeutics of HIV-associated Cognitive Disorders. The Center is comprised of an experienced interdisciplinary research team who have pooled their talents to study the nature of HIV-associated cognitive disorders. Their aim is to translate discoveries of pathophysiological mechanisms into novel therapeutics for HIV-associated dementia (HIV-D). Moreover, under Dr. McArthur’s leadership, the Department of Neurology has expanded its focus on stroke to include novel rehabilitation strategies and the establishment of two comprehensive stroke centers in the U.S. and the UAE.

Dr. McArthur has devoted his career to the investigation of the neurological manifestations of AIDS, and to neurological education. His major contributions have focused on epidemiology, pathogenetic mechanisms and treatment of the neurological manifestations of HIV/AIDS. Dr. McArthur’s research is focused in three areas of the neurological manifestations of HIV infection:

1) neuroepidemiology, 2) therapeutic development and clinical trials, and 3) studies of pathogenesis. He has published over 250 original research articles, and has authored four textbooks.

He received his medical degree from Guys Hospital Medical School in London, UK. This was followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He then stayed with Johns Hopkins to complete a residency in neurology and achieve his masters in public health.

Shameema Sikder, M.D., founding medical director of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bethesda is an assistant professor of ophthalmology. She specializes in corneal disorders, including Fuchs dystrophy and keratoconus; complex cataracts and external eye diseases. Dr. Sikder’s clinical interests include surgical treatments for corneal diseases, such as endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK, DSAEK), complex cataracts and treatments for keratoconus.

Dr. Sikder is also director of the Center of Excellence for Ophthalmic Surgical Education and Training (OphSET) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has a particular interest in surgical education and is working on a technologies that could be implemented at the international level to improve the level of ophthalmic surgical care.

Dr. Sikder received her M.D. degree from the University of Arizona. She completed her ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute and fellowship in cornea and refractive disease at the Moran Eye Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she received the Claes Dohlman Fellow of the Year Award, recognizing the most distinguished cornea fellow in the nation. Dr. Sikder returned to Wilmer in 2011 and served as assistant chief of service (chief resident) and associate director of ocular trauma.

Henry Brem, M.D., is the Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also is a professor of oncology, ophthalmology and biomedical engineering.

Dr. Brem earned his undergraduate degree from New York University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and he trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University. At Johns Hopkins, he has built one of the largest brain tumor research and treatment centers in the world. He reinstituted the Hunterian Neurosurgery Laboratory originally founded by Harvey Cushing, and he has trained researchers who have revolutionized the fields of intraoperative imaging, angiogenesis, immunotherapy and controlled release polymers for drug delivery to the brain. In 1998, Dr. Brem was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2014, The Johns Hopkins University established the Henry Brem Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery. In 2015 Brem was selected to receive a Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence. The award is given annually to five physicians whose dedication, talents and skills have improved the lives of thousands of people throughout the world.

Dr. Brem has developed new tools and techniques that have changed the field of neurosurgery.
In 2000, Brem was named director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. Since his appointment, Brem has brought to Johns Hopkins many of the nation’s best neurosurgeons, who share his philosophy to provide the best clinical care, while pushing research boundaries to enhance patient’s outcomes in the field of neurosurgery. Brem and his team have established one of the best fellowship and residency programs in the US. His mission, which extends through his team, is to train the next generation to be cutting-edge neurosurgeons who will become academic leaders in their field. Fourteen current neurosurgery department chairs have trained at Hopkins.

To sustain his vision of combining scientific progress with improved clinical outcomes, the culture of philanthropy is important to Dr. Brem.  He has raised $75 million to establish a Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute at Johns Hopkins.  During his overall chairmanship, the Department of Neurosurgery has raised over $170 million, including thirteen endowed professorships to further support and expand the department’s spirit of innovation and excellence.

Jane Wheeler is Director of Business Development and Communications with the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine.  She has spent more than 15 years in academic medical center development, both on the faculty of Duke University School of Medicine, as an independent contractor working with Johns Hopkins, Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and industry, and in her current position.  In academia, she has helped medical faculty and researchers secure funding for clinical programs, research studies, and educational initiative from private philanthropy, foundations, professional associations, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies.

Jane received her bachelor’s degree in politics magna cum laude from Princeton University and her master of science in public health in health policy and management from Harvard School of Public Health. She has spent the majority of her career working for both public and private universities including Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Additionally, she has been an employee or contractor with several health care nonprofits, including an integrated palliative care and hospice organization, a rehabilitation organization for individuals with severe mental illness, a cancer patient support program, and an adolescent risk-reduction program. During her appointment as a faculty member in medical oncology at Duke University School of Medicine, she produced research documents including abstracts, clinical trial protocols for industry, IRB protocols, budgets and narratives; she is author of 44 peer-reviewed articles and nine book chapters pertaining to palliative care, supportive care in cancer, the role of information technology in patient-centered care, conflict of interest, and new models of learning health care.

Her interests at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine include developing a research-derived evidence base to support fundraising practices in medicine, establishing professional/ethical standards for medical development practices, and improving the quality of the profession through incorporation of robust theory of communication and leadership.

Michael Hibler is Executive Director of Development for the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. In this role he directs strategic programming of philanthropic activities for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Mr. Hibler has been serving cancer patients and their families at Johns Hopkins since 1993 when he arrived as a college intern. Since that time he has held various roles, including Administrative Director for the Harry J. Duffey Family Patient and Family Services Program, Co-Director of the Cancer Counseling Center and Administrator for the Center for Cancer Pain Research. In 2004 he joined the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Development team.

Michael is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Cancer Center Development Officers where he Co-Chairs the Benchmarking Committee. Since 2009, Michael has served as a Board Member for the Suburban Hospital Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland.

Mr. Hibler obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Loyola College in Maryland. More recently, he earned a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management at the University of Baltimore.

Betsy is a senior associate director in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She has been with Johns Hopkins for nine years, spending the past four as a grateful patient fundraiser with Psychiatry. She works with a variety of different specialties, including Alzheimer’s disease and memory disorders, reproductive psychiatry, brain stimulation, and young adult mood disorders. Prior to joining the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine, she spent five years in the development office at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in a variety of roles, including major gift fundraising, stewardship and events. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Betsy began her career at Bank of Boston, serving as a loan officer in the middle market and high tech lending areas. She then moved into the development world as an alumni relations professional at St. Timothy’s School.

Betsy is an active volunteer in the community – she has served on numerous community boards and remains a dedicated volunteer for her alma mater as a fundraiser, admissions interviewer, and member of the executive committee for her class. A native of New England, she is a transplant to Baltimore, where she raised her two children with her husband, Ken.

Jeremy Durkin is the Director of Medical Development Services & Analytics at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this role, he serves as the central administrative, informational, and operational resource for medical fundraising data.

Jeremy began his career at the Fund over 10 years ago as a data assistant helping administrate the HIPAA fundraising authorization compliance program. He went on to lead the team responsible for patient data access and reporting, and advanced the development of tools to engage faculty physicians and identify grateful patients. In his current position he is working to integrate medical fundraising data into an ethically sound data model to support his colleagues in cultivating the next generation of giving.

Jeremy is interested in developing synergy between development systems and health information systems to promote philanthropy and safeguard patient privacy. He is well versed in privacy law and electronic health record standards, and has the opportunity to collaborate regularly with data teams around the health system and university.

Marika Jones currently serves as the Chief Philanthropy Officer for University of Utah Health, where her team of 50 is responsible for raising over $250 million per year in support of five schools and colleges and the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. Prior to her position at the University of Utah, Marika served as President of the UnityPoint Health – Trinity Health Foundation in Moline, Illinois, where she successfully implemented a comprehensive development program increasing annual revenues tenfold. She has also served in development leadership positions at Iowa State University and the University of Michigan where she participated in several $1 billion+ campaigns. Prior to her career in fundraising, Marika worked as an engineer and later a financial analyst in the automotive industry. Marika holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Marika resides in Salt Lake City with her husband, Dean, and her corgi, Bailey. They have three children – Amelia, 27, Scott, 24, and Meredith, 21. They have one grandchild, Avery Ross, who was born on March 13, 2022.