Johns Hopkins Hospital to get new president

Johns Hopkins Hospital will get a new president this summer, according to an email Tuesday to the Hopkins medical community from Ronald R. Peterson, the 10th person to hold the position. Peterson, who has served in the role for almost two decades, will stay on at Hopkins in his other role helping lead Johns Hopkins Medicine, the umbrella alliance of the Hopkins health system and the Hopkins medical school. The new president will report to him. Peterson wrote that Johns Hopkins Medicine has grown in size and complexity during his tenure and, as a result, Peterson, the dean and the board of trustees decided it was a good time to recruit the next president.