The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected the 2024 class of Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, a group of early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, including internal medicine, psychiatry, veterinary medicine, biomedical engineering, and oncology. The NAM’s Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program provides a platform for a new generation of leaders to collaborate with the NAM and its members to advance science, address persistent challenges in health and medicine, and spark transformative change to improve health for all.
The scholars will engage in a variety of activities throughout the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine over a three-year term. Activities include meetings in Washington, D.C., with NAM leadership and members; planning an annual Emerging Leaders Forum; participating in National Academies convening activities; publishing NAM Perspectives; and attending the NAM’s annual meeting each October.
“I am thrilled to welcome these exceptional young leaders and scholars into the National Academy of Medicine’s Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine program,” said NAM President Victor J. Dzau. “These emerging leaders represent the next generation of leading health professionals and scientists who are poised to accelerate innovative and cross-disciplinary activities and help shape the future of science, health and medicine.”
The 2024 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars are:
- AZA Allsop, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; and affiliate assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Howard University Hospital
- Anwesha Dey, PhD, senior director and distinguished scientist, Discovery Oncology Department, Genentech
- Joseph Dieleman, PhD, associate professor of health metric sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
- Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, and associate vice chair of equity, diversity, and inclusion, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
- David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, founding director, Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory, and associate professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Forum Kamdar, MD, PhD, FACC, assistant professor, Cardiovascular Division and Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota
- Margaret McNairy, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Daniel J. Siegwart, PhD, W. Ray Wallace Distinguished Chair in Molecular Oncology Research and professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Catherine Tcheandjieu, DVM, PhD, assistant investigator, Gladstone Institutes, and assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
- Hansel Tookes, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
The Emerging Leaders program facilitates opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and innovation among the participants, NAM members, and experts across sectors. The next Emerging Leaders Forum, to be held in Washington, D.C., in April 2025, will allow the new group of scholars and invited participants to share their activities and insights on cutting-edge developments through collaborative work and interdisciplinary discussions among the nation’s rising leaders in health and medicine.
