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NAM Officers and Council

The National Academy of Medicine’s NAM Perspectives health periodical provides a venue for leading health, medical, science, and policy experts to reflect on issues and opportunities important to the advancement of our mission.

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Leadership

Monica Bertagnolli
President, National Academy of Medicine; Chair, NAM Council

Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, is the President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Chair of the NAM Council. A surgical oncologist and physician-scientist, her research has advanced understanding of the role of genetics and inflammation in gastrointestinal cancers and soft-tissue sarcomas. She served as director of the National Cancer Institute before becoming director of the NIH and earlier held academic and clinical leadership roles at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center. A past president and chair of the board of directors for the American Society of Clinical Oncology, she has also served on the boards of the American Cancer Society and the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Bertagnolli has championed collaborative efforts to build a learning health system by transforming the data infrastructure for clinical research, including by spearheading the mCODE initiative, which enabled standardized oncology data exchange, and DataCOUNTS, an NIH program managing data to drive a learning health system. She is also a strong advocate for increasing the representation of clinical trial participants, particularly from rural and remote communities.

A native of rural Wyoming, Bertagnolli was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021. She is the first woman to serve as president of the NAM since its establishment as the Institute of Medicine in 1970.

The daughter of first-generation Italian and French Basque immigrants, Dr. Bertagnolli grew up on a ranch in southwestern Wyoming. She graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree and attended medical school at the University of Utah. She trained in surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was a research fellow in tumor immunology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer and Executive Director, NAM Leadership Consortium

Michael McGinnis, physician and epidemiologist, is Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer at the National Academy of Medicine. A longstanding leader in population health and health policy, he established the Learning Health System concept and related NAM initiatives to advance the use of data, evidence, and artificial intelligence in health. Previously, he founded and led the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, helping build the field of population health through programs such as Health & Society Scholars. Earlier, he served through four Administrations as HHS lead for prevention policy, creating and stewarding flagship initiatives including Healthy People, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Internationally, he chaired the World Bank task force for rebuilding the health sector in Bosnia and was a state director for the World Health Organization’s smallpox eradication program in India.

Governing Council

Bob Phillips
NAM Home Secretary; Founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine; Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University

Robert L. Phillips, Jr., MD, MSPH, is the Founding Executive Director of The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care in Washington, DC, and Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. He is a practicing family physician trained in health services and primary care research, with work that informs workforce, payment, and primary care policy.

He leads a national primary care registry with related research on social determinants of health, rural health, and changes in primary care practice. Dr. Phillips has served Health and Human Services on multiple advisory bodies, including as vice-chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education, co-chair of the Population Health Subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and on the Negotiated Rule-Making Committee on Shortage Designation. His collaboration with the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy monitors electronic health record policy effects.

Dr. Phillips was elected to the NAM in 2010 and served as chair of the Membership Committee and on the Presidential Search Committee. He co-chaired the National Academies’ study Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, for which he received the David Rall Medal for Distinguished Leadership in 2024.

He convenes international health policy dialogues across Washington, DC embassies, connecting global innovators with Congressional and federal agency leaders. He was a Fulbright Specialist to the Netherlands and New Zealand, and advisor to the Health Ministers of Australia and the Province of Alberta.

Dr. Phillips completed medical school at the University of Florida with distinction, trained in family medicine at the University of Missouri, and completed a National Research Service Award fellowship there. His research has influenced national health policy through more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, essays, editorials, and book chapters.

International Secretary, National Academy of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University School of Medicine
NAM Council Vice Chair; Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, Jonas Salk Professor of Population Health, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh
Michele Barry, MD. FACP, FASTMH
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health; Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford University
Dean, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Chief Science Officer and Vice Chief Academic Officer, Advocate Health
Ana M. Cauce, PhD
Professor of Psychology
University of Washington
President
University of Minnesota System
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine; Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health; Executive Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology; James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor; Director, ALS Center of Excellence, University of Michigan Health System
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Senior Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics, Professor and Chair
Baylor College of Medicine
Dean, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory University
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Indiana University
Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Founding Dean and CEO
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
President and CEO
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
President and Vice Chair
OPKO Health, Inc.

Elias Zerhouni, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He currently serves as Vice Chairman and President of OPKO Health. From 2011 to 2018, he was President of Global Research & Development and a member of the Executive Committee at Sanofi. At Johns Hopkins, he held several leadership roles including Chair of the Department of Radiology, Vice Dean for Research, and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine. In 2002, he was appointed Director of the National Institutes of Health, where he oversaw 27 Institutes and Centers, more than 18,000 employees, and a $29.5 billion budget. In 2009, President Obama named him one of the first U.S. presidential science envoys. Dr. Zerhouni also served as a senior fellow with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and later as senior advisor to Sanofi’s CEO. He has founded or co-founded five start-ups, published over 200 papers, and holds multiple patents. He has served on numerous boards, including the Lasker Foundation, Research!America, and the NIH Foundation. Among his honors are election to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the French Academy of Medicine, along with receiving the French Legion of Honor medal.

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