The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 100 new members—including Peter A. Calabresi, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Sciences at the Larner College of Medicine, “for being an international thought leader in multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis and therapies. His innovative work on the anterior visual pathway using optical coherence tomography for diagnosis, clinical prognosis, and for pathogenesis research, has highlighted progressive retinal neurodegeneration as an ongoing but treatable feature of MS.”
NAM membership is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. The newly elected members bring the organization’s total membership to more than 2,500, which includes more than 200 international members.
Founded in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Medicine is one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. The National Academies are private, nonprofit institutions that work outside government to address critical issues in health, science, medicine, and related policy, providing independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conducting other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions.