The National Academy of Medicine named five healthcare professionals recipients of the 2017 NAM Fellowship program Oct. 16.
NAM officials said the five fellows were chosen based on "their professional qualifications and accomplishments, reputations as scholars and relevance of current field expertise to the work of the NAM and the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine."
The fellows will collaborate with researchers, policy experts and clinicians nationwide during their two-year fellowship, which includes a research stipend for each recipient. Each individual will also continue in their primary academic post while completing their fellowship.
The five fellows are:
- Mahshid Abir, MD, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School
- Ellen Eaton, MD, an assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
- Neal Dickert, Jr., MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Atlanta-based Emory University School of Medicine
- Tammy Chang, MD, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School
- Ebony B. Carter, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the division of maternal-fetal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
"The NAM Fellowship is designed for health science scholars who are one to 10 years out from completion of a residency or receipt of a doctoral degree to participate hands-on in our process of providing health advice to the nation," said Victor J. Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine. "Through this experience, the fellows will be able to build a network of mentors whom the fellows can call upon throughout their careers. They also will study healthcare challenges across a range of disciplines and viewpoints to develop sound healthcare strategies and policies."