Five NAM members have been elected to serve 3-year terms on the Academy’s Governing Council beginning July 1, 2020:
- Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, Chief Health Officer, Google Health
- Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (elected for a second term)
- Paula T. Hammond, PhD, David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mae C. Jemison, MD, President, The Jemison Group, Inc.
- Kelsey C. Martin, MD, PhD, Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine; Professor of Biological Chemistry; and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
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