President Ronald Daniels will spend the next eight weeks out of office as he recovers from undergoing surgery at Hopkins Hospital on Monday.
Doctors expect that Daniels will make a full recovery after spending seven hours in surgery to remove a mass from behind his pancreas.
"I'll be back as soon as I can. Perhaps even sooner than my doctors expect," Daniels wrote in an email broadcast to the school on Monday evening.
It will take pathologists a week to categorize the mass.
During Daniels's absence, control of the University will be managed by Hopkins administrators.
This includes Provost Lloyd Minor, who will "manage the business of the university on a day-to-day basis and stand in for me as needed until I return sometime next month," Daniels wrote.
In a statement to the press, surgeon Richard Schulick said that Daniels was recovering well and has an excellent prognosis.
