WASHINGTON – Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA, Charles R. Drew prof of country and Howard University president, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today. He joins the 90 caller regular and 10 caller planetary members who were announced astatine today’s yearly meeting.
According to today’s announcement from NAM, Dr. Frederick was chosen “for being a tireless and talented higher acquisition person and wellness attraction head and world-renowned surgeon. As president of Howard University, helium has worked to make a divers wellness attraction workforce portion serving arsenic an advisor to U.S. and planetary officials successful navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Election to NAM is considered 1 of the highest honors successful the fields of wellness and medicine and recognizes individuals who person demonstrated outstanding nonrecreational accomplishment and committedness to service.
“I americium profoundly humbled and honored to articulation this astir august academy of individuals,” said Dr. Frederick. “The individuals successful this academy person shaped medicine for decades. They correspond the astir compassionate and dedicated professionals. It is my sincere intent and anticipation to uphold their values and to lend arsenic they person to the advancement of medicine worldwide.”
New members are elected by existent members done a process that recognizes individuals who person made large contributions to the advancement of the aesculapian sciences, wellness care, and nationalist health. A diverseness of endowment among NAM’s rank is assured by its articles of organization, which stipulate that astatine slightest one-quarter of the rank is selected from fields extracurricular the wellness professions — for example, from specified fields arsenic law, engineering, societal sciences, and the humanities.
“This bonzer people of caller members is comprised of exceptional scholars and leaders who person been astatine the forefront of responding to superior nationalist wellness challenges, combatting societal inequities, and achieving innovative discoveries,” said Victor J. Dzau, president of NAM. “Their expertise volition beryllium captious to informing the aboriginal of wellness and medicine for the payment of america all. I americium genuinely honored to invited these esteemed individuals to the National Academy of Medicine.”
About Howard University
Founded successful 1867, Howard University is simply a private, probe assemblage that is comprised of 14 schools and colleges. Students prosecute much than 140 programs of survey starring to undergraduate, postgraduate and nonrecreational degrees. The University operates with a committedness to Excellence successful Truth and Service and has produced 1 Schwarzman Scholar, 3 Marshall Scholars, 4 Rhodes Scholars, 12 Truman Scholars, 25 Pickering Fellows and much than 165 Fulbright recipients. Howard besides produces much on-campus African American Ph.D. recipients than immoderate different assemblage successful the United States. For much accusation connected Howard University, visit www.howard.edu.
About National Academy of Medicine
Established primitively arsenic the Institute of Medicine successful 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine addresses captious issues successful health, science, medicine, and related argumentation and inspires affirmative actions crossed sectors. NAM works alongside the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering to supply independent, nonsubjective investigation and proposal to the federation and behaviour different activities to lick analyzable problems and pass nationalist argumentation decisions. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine besides promote acquisition and research, admit outstanding contributions to knowledge, and summation nationalist knowing of STEMM. With their election, NAM members marque a committedness to unpaid their work successful National Academies activities.
Media Contact: Misha Cornelius, misha.cornelius@howard.edu
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