Institute of Medicine

Dudley Childress, elected 1995

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, professor emeritus of physical medicine and rehabilitation worked to advance prosthetic, orthotic, and assistive device technology. His research concentrated in the areas of biomechanics, human walking, artificial limbs, ambulation aids, and rehabilitation engineering.

Under Childress' direction, the first systems were developed to control power wheelchairs by switches that are activated by sipping and puffing on a tube or using other minimal movements. His group also developed one of the first environmental control systems enabling persons with paralyzed hands and arms to activate electrical devices such as lights and appliances. He was elected into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1995. In 1998, Childress and his colleagues developed a state-of-the-art motion analysis system, one of a few such research tools dedicated to studies of prostheses, orthoses, and other ambulation and manipulation aids. Childress received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development in 2002, the VA's highest honor for VA rehabilitation investigators. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.

Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, elected 1999

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Michael Fleming, elected 2005

Michael Fleming, MD, MPH, professor in Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was elected in 2005 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  He is also the director of the MSTP Program. Fleming’s research and training focuses on behavioral interventions in community-based primary care practices. He has served as the principal investigator on more than a dozen National Institutes of Health grants and contracts related to phospholipids, alcohol biomarkers, chronic pain, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, pharmacotherapy trials, and educational interventions. Fleming has had more than 135 peer-reviewed research papers in more than 40 publications since 2005.

He joined Feinberg in the fall of 2010 as a professor and vice chair for Research and Faculty Development. Before coming to Feinberg, he served as a professor of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held the position of director for the Pain and Inpatient Addiction Medicine consult services at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.  He also was director of research, education, and career development programs at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

J. Larry Jameson, elected 2005

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, joined the Feinberg faculty in 1993 as chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine. He was the Irving S. Cutter Professor and served as chair of the department of medicine from 2000 to 2007, when he was named vice president for medical affairs and dean of Feinberg. He has a long-standing interest in the genetics of endocrine tumors and possible approaches to their treatment. He has published more than 250 scientific articles and co-edited the fourth and the fifth editions of the authoritative text, DeGroot and Jameson’s Endocrinology. He is His book Principles of Molecular Medicine received the Best Health Science Book of 1998 award.  He has served as an editor for the 15th and 16th editions of Harrison’s, Principles of Internal Medicine and is an editor of Harrison’s Online.

Jameson served as president of the Endocrine Society and has received several awards, including the Oppenheimer Award from the Endocrine Society and the Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association. He has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and, in 2004, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.

Chad Mirkin, elected 2010

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