Drs. Scott Halpern, Eugenia South elected to National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to CHIBE affiliates Drs. Scott Halpern and Eugenia South for being named to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

“Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service,” the NAM website stated.

Dr. Halpern, who is the John M. Eisenberg Professor in Medicine, professor of medical ethics and health policy and of epidemiology, and director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center (PAIR), was recognized for “making seminal contributions to improving care near the end of life by combining conceptual and empirical work. Through trenchant ethical analyses and leadership of the field’s largest clinical trials, he has challenged old paradigms of serious illness decision-making and demonstrated how low-cost, scalable interventions can improve care quality and outcomes.”

Dr. South, the Ralph Muller Presidential Associate Professor at Perelman School of Medicine; associate vice president of health justice, University of Pennsylvania Health System; and faculty director, Center for Health Justice at Penn, was recognized for “being among the country’s foremost leaders in developing and testing interventions to dismantle structural racism and prevent firearm injury in Black neighborhoods. She has made substantive, field-changing scientific and real-world contributions to advancing health via the lens of racial, environmental, and economic justice.”