New Women Members of the Institute of Medicine

Recently the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies announced the selection of 65 new members. New inductees are elected by the current membership, which now stands at 1,688. Candidates who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, or public health are considered for election as members.

An independent analysis of the list of new members by WIAReport has concluded that 21 of the new 65 members are women.

(Top row, L to R) Barbara F. Abrams, Margarita Alegria, Karen H. Antman, Katherine Baicker, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Claire D. Brindis, Vivian G. Cheung, Patricia A. Conrad, Nancy E. Davidson, and Diana L. Farmer. (Second row, L to R) Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Margaret T. Fuller, Jennifer L. Howse, Sharon K. Inouye, JoAnn E. Manson, Carol A. Mason, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Claire Pomeroy, Jeannette E. South-Paul, Li-Huei Tsai, and Barbara Vickrey.

Here is a list of the new honorees.

Barbara F. Abrams is a professor of epidemiology, maternal and child health, and public health nutrition at the University of California at Berkeley.

Margarita Alegria is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Karen H. Antman is provost and dean of the Boston University School of Medicine.

Katherine Baicker is a professor of health economics at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

Carolyn R. Bertozzi is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Claire D. Brindis is a professor of pediatrics and obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco.

Vivian G. Cheung is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an associate professor of pediatrics and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Patricia A. Conrad is a professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California at Davis.

Nancy E. Davidson is director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and associate vice chancellor and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Diana L. Farmer is a professor of surgery, pediatrics and obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco.

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett is a professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology and director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Margaret T. Fuller is a professor of developmental biology and genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Jennifer L. Howse is president of the March of Dimes in White Plains, New York.

Sharon K. Inouye is the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Chair and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

JoAnn E. Manson is the Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Carol A. Mason is professor of pathology, cell biology, neuroscience, and ophthalmic science at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

Ora Hirsch Pescovitz is executive vice president for medical affairs and professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases at the University of Michigan.

Claire Pomeroy is vice chancellor for human health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California at Davis.

Jeannette E. South-Paul is the Andrew W. Mathieson and chair of the department of family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 2001 after a 21-year career as a physician in the U.S. Army.

Li-Huei Tsai is Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Barbara Vickrey is professor and chair of the department of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles.