PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Dr. Megan L. Ranney, lawman dean astatine Brown University’s School of Public Health and a prof of exigency medicine astatine the University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine arsenic a subordinate of its 2022 class.
Ranney is 1 of 100 caller members invited by existent members to articulation this year’s class. Election to the academy is considered 1 of the highest honors successful wellness and medicine, and recognizes individuals astatine the apical of their tract who person demonstrated “outstanding nonrecreational accomplishment and committedness to service.”
“I americium beyond honored by this election,” Ranney said. “The National Academy of Medicine serves arsenic a touchstone for rigorous subject and respectful technological debate. This evidence-centered assemblage matters immensely arsenic we face aggregate aesculapian and nationalist wellness challenges — peculiarly successful this moment, erstwhile subject and technological connection substance truthful profoundly to the world. It is truthful meaningful to person been elected arsenic a member.”
According to a connection from the academy, Ranney was elected successful designation of her relation arsenic a nationalist national wellness person and communicator “who has brought deeper knowing of nationalist wellness challenges” and “who has changed nationalist wellness paradigms done technology-based interventions to trim unit (particularly firearm injury), intelligence illness, substance usage and infectious illness risk.”
Over the past 5 years, Ranney has worked with the National Academy of Medicine and its members connected issues related to firearm injury, COVID-19, and subject communication. As a researcher, she has focused connected developing, investigating and disseminating integer wellness interventions to forestall unit and related behavioral wellness problems, arsenic good arsenic connected COVID-related hazard reduction. She is well-known for her enactment connected firearm wounded prevention and acquisition and is the co-founder and elder strategical advisor for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction successful Medicine, a nonprofit committed to ending the weapon unit epidemic done a non-partisan nationalist wellness approach.
Ranney is simply a nationalist advocator for innovative approaches to nationalist wellness and successful 2019 founded the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, successful which physician-scientists astatine Brown and its affiliated infirmary partners collaboratively design, trial and deploy integer solutions to pressing wellness challenges. She has received galore awards for exertion innovation, nationalist wellness and research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ranney, a practicing exigency physician, co-founded GetUsPPE.org, a start-up nonprofit that delivered donated idiosyncratic protective instrumentality to aesculapian professionals.
Ranney earned a master’s grade successful nationalist wellness from Brown, completed her residency successful exigency medicine and a fellowship successful wounded prevention probe astatine Brown, and joined the module of the Warren Alpert Medical School successful the Department of Emergency Medicine successful 2010. She earned her bachelor’s grade successful past of subject from Harvard University and her M.D. from Columbia University.
Ranney joins different Brown assemblage members successful the National Academy of Medicine, including Dr. Eli Adashi, prof of aesculapian subject and erstwhile dean of aesculapian and biologic sciences; Dr. Phyllis Dennery, prof and seat of pediatrics; John Donoghue, prof of neuroscience and engineering; Dr. Jack A. Elias, prof of translational subject and erstwhile dean of aesculapian and biologic sciences; Dr. Mukesh K. Jain, dean of aesculapian and biologic sciences; Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the School of Public Health; Vincent Mor, prof of wellness services argumentation and practice; James Morone, prof of nationalist policy; Dr. Josiah Rich, prof of medicine and epidemiology; David Savitz, prof of epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.
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