L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and chief science officer for Advocate Health, has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine Council – the academy’s governing and oversight body.
Boulware will serve a 3-year term from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027.
Founded in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) in the United States. The NAM has more than 2,400 members elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement.
Boulware joined Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2023 as dean and leads the academic core for Advocate Health, the nation’s third largest nonprofit health system.
She is a clinical epidemiologist and a national leader in health equity research. Boulware previously served as faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, where she played a key role in accelerating science translation.
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