The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected six outstanding health professionals for the 2025 class of NAM Fellowships. The fellows were chosen for their professional qualifications, reputations, and accomplishments, and based on the relevance of their current field of expertise to the work of the NAM and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The fellows will collaborate with eminent researchers, policy experts, and clinicians from across the country during their two-year fellowship. They will also participate in initiatives convened by the National Academies to provide nonpartisan, scientific, and evidence-based guidance to policymakers, academic leaders, health care administrators, and the public.
The 2025 NAM Fellows are:
ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship
- Christian Dameff, MD, MS, assistant professor, departments of emergency medicine, biomedical informatics, and computer science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Fellowship
- Kirsten Austad, MD, MPH, assistant professor of family medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; co-director, Evans Center for Implementation & Improvement Science, Boston University; family medicine hospitalist, Boston Medical Center
- Jonathan Staloff, MD, MSc, acting assistant professor, department of family medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
Norman F. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Fellowship
- Rebecca F. Hamm, MD, MSCE, assistant professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics
- Govind Persad, JD, PhD, associate professor, School of Law, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder
- Nilay S. Shah, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC, assistant professor, departments of medicine (cardiology), preventive medicine (epidemiology), and medical social sciences (determinants of health), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago
“Congratulations to these exceptional health science scholars, and welcome to the NAM Fellowship program,” said National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau. “NAM fellows not only have the unique opportunity to build a network of supportive mentors, but they will also gain hands-on experience in helping develop comprehensive policy solutions to complex challenges across a wide range of health and medicine disciplines.”
Fellows will continue in their primary academic or research posts while engaging part time over a two-year period in the National Academies’ health and science policy work. They will also work with an expert study committee or roundtable related to their professional interests, including contributing to reports or other products. A flexible research grant will be awarded to every fellow.
The overall purpose of the NAM Fellowship program is to enable talented, early-career health science scholars to participate actively in the work of the NAM and the National Academies, and to further their careers as future leaders in the field.
The National Academy of Medicine, established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond. It serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as an adviser to the nation and the international community. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors. The NAM collaborates closely with its peer academies and other divisions within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
