John Charles Baldwin (September 23, 1948 – April 3, 2016) was an American cardiac surgeon and academic administrator.
He served as the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine, as dean of Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine, as president and CEO of the Harvard Immune Disease Institute, and as president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
[3] After he completed his training, Baldwin taught and practiced cardiothoracic surgery as a faculty member at Stanford, becoming the director of the heart-lung transplantation program there.
[4] Baldwin was named the Debakey Professor and the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine in 1994.
He became the medical school dean and associate provost for health affairs at Dartmouth College in 1998.