Institute of Medicine names a dozen members from Boston area

By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff

The Institute of Medicine today announced 65 new members during its annual meeting in Washington. Among them were a dozen Boston area doctors and researchers and one from New Hampshire. Many are affiliated with Harvard, and several are funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

New members are elected by current ones. At least one-quarter of all members must come from fields outside of health, including from behavioral and social sciences, law, or the humanities. Institute members serve as health advisors as part of the National Academy of Sciences.

The new members from our area are:

• Margarita Alegria, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville.
• Frederick W. Alt, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, who leads the Immune Disease Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston.
• Dr. Karen H. Antman, provost of the Boston University Medical Campus and dean of the Boston University School of Medicine
• Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health
• Dr. George Q. Daley, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Samuel E. Lux IV Professor of Hematology at Children’s Hospital Boston, and professor of biological chemistry, molecular pharmacology, and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Atul A. Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, associate professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health, and associate professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research.
• Dr. Jay S. Loeffler, Herman and Joan Suit Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and chairman of radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dr. James H. Thrall, Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and radiologist in chief at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Li-Huei Tsai, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, and director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Dr. James N. Weinstein, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, president of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, and Peggy Y. Thomson Professor in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.