The Adam Yarmolinsky Medal is awarded to a member of the National Academy of Medicine from a discipline outside the health and medical sciences — this may include (but is not limited to) natural, social, computational and behavioral sciences, law, administration, engineering, business, environmental health, data sciences, and basic life sciences.​. Eligible nominees do not include those who have a health professional degree, regardless of their scientific field or scholarly contributions. It recognizes distinguished service by a member who, over a significant period of time, has contributed in multiple ways to the mission of the NAM. Eligible nominees may not have a health professional degree, regardless of their scientific field or scholarly contributions. The Adam Yarmolinsky Medal was not conferred in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2021.