Ellen J. MacKenzie

Ellen J. MacKenzie is an American researcher and former dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an expert in trauma care and health policy and management, and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine.

Education MacKenzie received her bachelor's degree in 1972 from Rutgers University. She earned a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in 1979, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Career

MacKenzie joined the Bloomberg School faculty in 1979. In 2005, she was named the Fred and Julie Soper Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management.

In 1994, she was appointed the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, and she held this position until 2005. From 1996 to 2000, she was the senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Bloomberg School. The school has 1,400 faculty members and more than 2,200 students.

She founded and leads the Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium, which has more than 50 trauma centers as members. MacKenzie served as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine in 1993 and the American Trauma Society in 2005.

Awards

2018 Elected member, National Academy of Medicine 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in Trauma Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association 2003 Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 1994 Named Honorary Fellow, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Distinguished Career Award, American Public Health Association (Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section) Distinguished Achievement Award, American Trauma Society Award of Merit, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Nursing Leadership Award, Society of Trauma Nurses