The IOM is governed by a Council consisting of the president and 20 members elected by the membership to 3-year terms. The Council meets quarterly, approves the annual Program Plan and fiscal year budget--both income and expenditures--and provides policy guidance.

A five-member Executive Committee of the Council acts monthly for the Council to review all proposals for new and revised projects.

Three standing committees--Program, Finance, and Membership--provide recommendations to the Council in their areas of responsibility.

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE COUNCIL
2008

Harvey V. Fineberg. M.D., Ph.D. (Chairman)
President, Institute of Medicine

*Huda Akil, Ph.D. – 2008
Co-Director
The Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
Gardner Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neuroscience in Psychiatry
University of Michigan

Drew E. Altman, Ph.D. – 2009
President and CEO
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

*Helen M. Blau, Ph.D. – 2009

Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor

Director, Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology

Stanford University School of Medicine

Christine K. Cassel, M.D. – 2008

 President and CEO

 American Board of Internal Medicine

Gail H. Cassell, Ph.D. – 2010
Vice President, Scientific Affairs and
Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases
Eli Lilly and Company

Victor J. Dzau, M.D. – 2010

Chancellor for Health Affairs

Duke University

President and CEO

Duke University Health System

Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H. – 2010
President and CEO

CARE, USA

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. – 2010

Senior Scientist

NTI
 

Martha N. Hill, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. – 2010

Dean and Professor of Nursing

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Peter S. Kim, Ph.D. – 2008
President
Merck Research Laboratories

*Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D. – 2008

Vice President for Academic Health Affairs

Emory University

*Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D. – 2009
CEO & Executive Publisher of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. – 2010

Sterling Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics

Professor of Genetics, Internal Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Yale University School of Medicine

*Bernard Lo, M.D. – 2008         

Professor of Medicine

Director, Program in Medical Ethics

University of California, San Francisco

Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. – 2009

Director

National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute

National Institutes of Health

Philip A. Pizzo, M.D. – 2009
Dean
Carl & Elizabeth Naumann Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Susan C. Scrimshaw, Ph.D. – 2008
President

Simmons College

Judith L. Swain, M.D. – 2009

Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine

National University of Singapore and

Founding Executive Director of Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences and

Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCSD

A. Eugene Washington, M.D., M.Sc. – 2010

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

University of California, San Francisco

Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D. – 2009
Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University

ex officio to Council (non-voting)

Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D. (6/30/2010)
IOM Foreign Secretary
President
New York Academy of Medicine
Professor
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University

Stephen J. Ryan, M.D.  (6/30/2009)
IOM Home Secretary
President
Doheny Eye Institute