The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has honored Michael Johns, MD, with its prestigious Walsh McDermott Medal, which is awarded to a subordinate for distinguished work to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine implicit an extended period. The grant was presented astatine its yearly gathering connected October 16, 2022.
Johns is an internationally recognized person successful world medicine, wellness argumentation and arsenic a caput and cervix crab surgeon. He presently serves arsenic prof successful the Schools of Medicine and Public Health astatine Emory University. He is Emeritus Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at Emory University, and Emeritus President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Emory Healthcare – positions helium held astatine Emory from 1996 to 2007. During this time, Johns engineered the translation of the Health Sciences Center into 1 of the nation’s preeminent centers successful education, probe and diligent care.
Johns besides served arsenic Emory’s Chancellor from 2007 to 2012. From June 2014 done February 2015 helium served arsenic interim Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs astatine the University of Michigan, wherever helium earned his aesculapian degree.
“I americium profoundly honored and humbled to person this grant from the National Academy of Medicine,” says Johns. “The NAM is an enactment that continues to make important initiatives that positively interaction thousands of practitioners and, much importantly, patients. I person been privileged to person been progressive with NAM each these years and look guardant to moving with them for galore more.”
From 1990 to 1996, Johns was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and vice president of the aesculapian module astatine Johns Hopkins University. Under his leadership, the schoolhouse revamped its program to amended conscionable the challenges of a caller epoch successful wellness care, and developed a exertion transportation programme that was considered a exemplary successful the country.
Johns was elected to the Institute of Medicine successful 1993, serving connected respective committees and arsenic vice seat of the IOM assembly anterior to IOM’s modulation to the National Academy of Medicine successful 2015. He is simply a chap of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, served connected the editorial committee of the Journal of the American Medical Association and connected the Advisory Council to the Congressional Taskforce connected Biomedical Research and Innovation.
He has served connected respective boards and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense arsenic a subordinate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Board of Regents. Johns presently serves connected the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Board and the University of Michigan Health Sciences Board.
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