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2 A Commitment to Service: Members and Leaders of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Medicine
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... 3 In 2021, the NAM Council comprised three officers (President, Home Secretary, and International Secretary) and 15 at-large Council members, all elected by the NAM membership.
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... bylaws specified that "no more than three-quarters of the members shall be drawn from the fields of health and medicine."5 This requirement reflected an understanding of the role of social, political, economic, and environmental BOX 2-1 Recipients of Member Service Awards, 2000–2021 Walsh McDermott Medal: Mary Ellen Avery, MD; Julius Richmond, MD; Enriqueta Bond, PhD; Leon Eisenberg, MD; Floyd Bloom, MD; Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN; Elena Nightingale, MD, PhD; Jack Bar chas, MD; Gilbert Omenn, MD, PhD; Don Detmer, MD; David Challoner, MD; Robert Wallace, MD; Haile Debas, MD; Donald Berwick, MD; Dan Blazer, MD, PhD, JP; Alan Leshner, PhD; Lynn Goldman, MD, MS, MPH; Barbara McNeil, MD, PhD; Elaine Larson, PhD, RN; Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD; David Relman, MD; Christine Cassel, MD David Rall Medal: Stuart Bondurant, MD; Dorothy Rice, ScD; Joshua Lederberg, PhD; Daniel Federman, MD; Marie McCormick, MD, ScD; Torsten Wiesel, MD; Fitzhugh Mullan, MD; William Richardson, PhD; Sheila Burke, RN, MPA; Bernard Guyer, MD, MPH; Nancy Adler, PhD; Virginia Stallings, MD; Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH; Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD; Richard Johnston, Jr., MD; Jonathan Samet, MD, MS; Donna Shalala, PhD; Richard Hynes, PhD; Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD; David Savitz, PhD; David Eaton, PhD; Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN Adam Yarmolinksy Medal: Rashi Fein, PhD; Walter McNerney, MHA; Richard Bonnie, JD; Paul Rogers, JD; Lawrence S Lewin, MBA; Henry Riecken, PhD; Lawrence Gostin, JD; Karen Davis, PhD; David Mechanic, PhD; Joseph Newhouse, PhD; Gail Warden, MHA; R
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... , Anesthesiology, Radiol ogy, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, and Ophthalmology • SECTION 7: Psychiatry and Neurology • SECTION 8: Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation • SECTION 9: Public Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology • SECTION 10: Dentistry, Nutrition, Nursing, Allied Health Professions, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine • SECTION 11: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law • SECTION 12: Administration of Health Services, Education, and Research BOX 2-3 NAM Member Interest Groups, 2021 • Health Policy and Health Care Systems • Global Health, Infectious Diseases, and Microbiology • Neuroscience, Behavior, Brain Function, and Disorders • Maternal and Child Health and Human Development • Health of Populations and Health Disparities • Education of the Health Care and Science Workforce • Biology of Aging and Geriatrics • Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity • Cancer, Stem Cell Biology, and Transplantation • Human Rights, Professional Ethics, and the Value of Medicine • Rehabilitation and Human Function • Primary Care • Health Technology • Climate Change
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... , described NAM membership as "an unparalleled opportunity to meet and interact with colleagues who are pushing the boundaries of scientific and medical innovation with a common goal: to understand and treat disease and promote health worldwide."7 Presidential Citation for Exemplary Leadership On October 19, 2020, at the 50th annual meeting of the NAM, then-President Victor J Dzau presented the Academy's first-ever Presidential Citation for Exemplary Leadership to NAM member Anthony S
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... 2020. NAM Awards First Ever Presidential Citation for Exemplary Leadership to Anthony Fauci.
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... 2002 Discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and Robert Horvitz programmed cell death Linda B Buck 2004 Discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system Barry J
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... https://nobelprize.org. TABLE 2-2 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry Awarded to IOM/NAM Members IOM/NAM Member(s)
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... 8 The IOM/NAM presidential term was 5 years prior to Harvey Fineberg's term (2002–2014)
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... Hogness set about establishing the IOM's basic governing structure, beginning with the appointment of its first executive director, Roger Bulger. He also appointed the first members of the IOM Council and established Executive, Program, and Finance Committees within it.
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... During the interim, Julius Richmond, then Vice-Chair of the IOM Council, and Bulger provided leadership and day-to-day management for the organization and its staff. David A
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... After only 3 years in office, Hamburg informed the IOM Council that he would not pursue a second 5-year term as IOM president, noting that McDermott and the IOM founding fathers were wise to encourage fresh leadership at regular intervals. In his remaining time, he said, he would focus on establishing "valuable, long-term directions for the Institute" (IOM, 1998a, p.
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... Ebert's 1982 report proposed that the NRC be divided into six major units, including one devoted to human health and medicine that would encompass some functions of the DMS and some functions of the IOM. Demonstrating support for the IOM, Ebert recommended that this new unit be housed in the IOM and overseen by the IOM Council.
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... At the September 23, 1985, meeting of the IOM Council, NAS President Frank Press announced that Samuel Thier, a prominent kidney scientist who was then head of the Internal Medicine Department at Yale University, would become the next president of the IOM (see Figure 2-5)
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... Unlike study committees, forums and roundtables did not issue recommendations, and, with the exception of planning sessions, the majority of their work was conducted publicly through workshops and other meetings. Thier departed the IOM in 1991, during the first year of his second term as IOM president, to become the president of Brandeis University.
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... Due to the controversy of the subject, which highlighted the fallibility of clinicians and the system in which they operated, Shine was unable to secure external funding for the initiative's first study. Several potential sponsors he approached questioned why the IOM "would want to frighten the public with this information."12 Ultimately, Shine used interest from the IOM's endowment and $750,000 in a matching gift supplied by NAS President Bruce Alberts to launch the initiative under the leadership of Staff Director Janet Corrigan.13 In 1999, the initiative produced one of the IOM's most influential reports, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.14 12 Personal communication between Kenneth Shine and Laura H
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... . The IOM's leadership structure became more robust during Shine's tenure, with the creation of two new officer positions within the IOM Council: Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary15 (see Box 2-6)
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... Themes identified as important at the time included vaccine safety, quality of 16 By the time of Fineberg's presidency, the IOM Council had voted to extend the length of a single presidential term from 5 to 6 years. 17 Interview between Harvey Fineberg and Edward Berkowitz, October 15, 2018.
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... care, health system redesign, global health, and genomics.19 Fineberg felt particularly strongly that the IOM needed to reinvigorate its focus on global health. The prospect of eliminating the IOM's Board on Global Health had arisen during Shine's tenure, which Fineberg believed "undervalued the critical importance of global health, even when taking a relatively narrow view of American interests."20 His focus on the interconnectedness of the health of the globe led to the revitalization of the Board on Global Health and its associated activities, which has published more than 170 reports and proceedings since 1996.
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... Dzau served as a member of the NAM Council for 6 years before being selected as IOM president in 2014. After the IOM-NAM reorganization, the programs of the IOM including all six boards, which conducted consensus studies and convening activities, were moved into a new Health and Medicine Division within the National Academies.
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... Throughout his tenure, Dzau also maintained a strong international presence in his personal capacity, serving as a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board and Access to COVID19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator and the interim board of directors for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations as well as co-chair of a scientific report of the G20 global health summit, among other global engagements (G20, 2021b)
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... Under the NAM, the Action Collaborative became a standalone mechanism to convene and enable key stakeholders with similar responsibilities and shared interests to develop solutions and act collectively to address a specific, multi-faceted, and significant problem and provide stakeholder participants with a collaborative platform on which to build a shared "action agenda" for advancing progress. Members of NAM Action Collaboratives have produced individually authored papers and other resources, hosted public events, and worked directly with policy makers and health leaders to drive change.
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... . Two other significant hires that Hogness made included Karl Yordy, who would ultimately succeed Bulger as executive officer, as staff director for the IOM's new program committee, and Ruth Hanft as senior research associate.
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... In 2021, the HMD had five boards (Food and Nutrition; Global Health; Health Care Services; Health Sciences Policy; Population Health and Public Health Practice) and a sixth (Children, Youth, and Families)
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... A third award for administrative excellence is given in honor of staff member Sandra H Matthews, who supported three IOM presidents during her tenure (see Figure 2-11)
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... Funded by RWJF and consisting of a medal and $40,000, the award recognizes individuals for outstanding achievement in improving health care services in the United States. In 1992, the IOM added the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, established by the Sarnats out of a desire to improve the science base for and the delivery of mental health services.
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... Included the NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leader ship (a collaboration between the NAM and The University of Hong Kong) and the NAM International Health Policy Fellowship, designed for early- to mid-career scholars in the fields of bioethics, medical ethics and law, economics and health policy, and health care.
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... Meier, MD; Stuart Altman, PhD; Patricia Gabow, MD; Anthony Fauci, MD; Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health Recipients, 1992–2020: Daniel X Freedman, MD; Seymour S
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... Directors of boards and studies, experts in their own right, collaborated with advisory groups and consensus committees made up of members as well as external volunteers to determine programmatic direction and execute studies and convening activities. Finally, the IOM/NAM looked beyond its members and staff to foster excellence and leadership in the field of health through fellowships and awards.


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