“I am delighted by the opportunity to congratulate another two members of our faculty who have been elected into the Institute of Medicine,” said Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Twenty are members of the IOM seven others are members of the NAS or NAE. Vanderbilt University now has 27 current faculty members who have been elected by their peers to the National Academies in recognition of excellence in their fields. The National Academies, which also includes the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and National Research Council, are private nonprofit institutions that provide advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world. With more than 1,900 members, the IOM is the health arm of the National Academies, serving as an adviser to the nation to improve health and promote health-related research. Vanderbilt University’s Betsy Weiner, Ph.D., R.N., senior associate dean for Informatics in the School of Nursing, and Mark Frisse, M.D., MS, MBA, Accenture Professor and director of Regional Informatics, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine ( IOM), the organization announced this week.
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