Four UC San Francisco faculty members are among the 100 new national and international members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Membership in the NAM recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service in the medical sciences, health care and public health.
“It is my privilege to welcome this extraordinary class of new members. Their contributions to health and medicine are unmatched – they’ve made groundbreaking discoveries, taken bold actions against social inequities, and led the response to some of the greatest public health challenges of our time,” said NAM President Victor J. Dzau in a press release, noting also that this year’s new members are NAM’s most diverse class of new members to date.
This year, the distinguished group welcomes four UCSF faculty:
- Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine and the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Chair in Cardiology; associate dean of Admissions, UCSF School of Medicine; and director, UCSF NURTURE Center
- Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy and associate chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine
- Lennart Mucke, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the Gladstone Institutes and Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at UCSF
- Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, a professor of Neurology and associate dean at UCSF; chief of staff at San Francisco VA Health Care System.
Dr. Hsia’s broad research interests encompass health services issues related to increasing access to emergency care, regionalization of care, and the financial costs of emergency care. In particular, she has expertise in the health disparities of emergency care through work that integrates the disciplines of economics, health policy and clinical investigation. She is best known for her pioneering work in elucidating structural and market-based inequities in the provision of acute and emergency services, including trauma, cardiac care, and stroke, specifically for disadvantaged populations and communities; as well as quantifying spillover effects from emergency department closures on patient mortality in neighboring communities.
Hsia speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish and French, and provides emergency care to patients of a variety of backgrounds as an attending physician in the emergency department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.