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5 unusual facts about Institute of Medicine


Chronic pain

According to the Institute of Medicine, there are about 116 million Americans living with chronic pain.

Joshua M. Epstein

He is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines.

Lawrence Corey

In 2008, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the (US) National Academy of Sciences.

Leslie Ungerleider

Ungerleider has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (2001), and the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

In 1998, the Institute of Medicine began a series of studies to respond to requests from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Congress for an examination of the health effects of potentially harmful agents to which Gulf War veterans might have been exposed.


Don E. Detmer

Don Detmer is a former trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the US National Academies, a fellow of AAAS, and the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has held administrative positions in academic medicine, research and national bodies including the Institute of Medicine, American College of Physicians, the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and National Library of Medicine (NLM), and been influential in the development of medicine, computing and biomedical informatics nationally and internationally.

Joseph Newhouse

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mitchell Lazar

He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Robert Isaac Field

Previously, he served as director of planning and physician practice acquisitions for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, as a health care attorney for a major Philadelphia law firm, and as a member of the research staff of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.


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Dorothy Nelkin

Her work was widely cited and she received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for the Social Studies of Science in 1988, the John McGovern Award of the American Medical Writers Association in 1999, and election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Ellen Wartella

Currently chair of the Front-of-Package Marketing study committee of the Institute of Medicine for the National Science Foundation, she serves on Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop and the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation

Members of the FMS Foundation Scientific Advisory Board now include a number of members of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine: Aaron T. Beck, Rochel Gelman, Leila Gleitman, Ernest Hilgard (deceased), Philip S. Holzman, Elizabeth Loftus, Paul R. McHugh and Ulric Neisser.

Hemang Dixit

In the past, he had worked as the Dean and Professor of Child Health of Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine .

Jay P. Sanford

He also held leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Library of Medicine, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces.

John G. Taylor

He was an Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College London and Guest Scientist of the Research Centre at the Institute of Medicine in Jülich, Germany.

Leon S. Robertson

He was a member of the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Committee on Trauma Research that produced the report Injury in America: A Continuing Public Health Problem and was vice-chair of the NRC committee that reviewed the injury control program of the Centers for Disease Control.

Lori Andrews

She has been an adviser on genetic and reproductive technology to the United States Congress, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and several foreign nations including the Emirate of Dubai and the French National Assembly.

Viktor Markin

After graduating from a secondary school he went to Novosibirsk, where he entered the Faculty of Pediatrics of the Institute of Medicine.