Paul Kieran Whelton is an Irish-born American physician and scientist who has contributed to the fields of hypertension and kidney disease epidemiology.
He is the founding director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University.
[citation needed] In 1989, Whelton became the founding director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1997, he moved from Baltimore to New Orleans, Louisiana, to serve as the dean of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
[5] In 2007, he moved from New Orleans to Chicago, Illinois, to serve as the President and CEO of the Loyola University Health System and Medical Center, as well as the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and a professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology at the Stritch School of Medicine.