Faculty in the National Academy of Medicine
Carolina faculty members who have been elected members of the National Academy of Medicine:
Ada A. Adimora, MD, MPH (elected 2019)
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Epidemiology
Ben D. Barker, M.Ed., DDS (elected 1983)
Dean Emeritus and Professor, Dental Ecology (retired)
Myron S. Cohen, MD (elected 2012)
J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology; Professor, Epidemiology
Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc (elected 2018)
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine
Director, Center for Health Equity Research
Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD (elected 1994)
Professor, Social Medicine
Joseph M. DeSimone, PhD (elected 2014)
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Pharmacology, NC State University & UNC-Chapel Hill
Luis A. Diaz, MD (elected 2002)
C.E. Wheeler Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair, Dermatology
Barbara S. Hulka, MD, MPH (elected 1984)
William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Lyle V. Jones, PhD (elected 1984)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Melina Kibbe, MD (elected 2016)
Chair and Professor, Surgery
Sheila T. Leatherman, MSW (elected 2002)
Research Professor, Health Policy and Administration
Terry R. Magnuson, PhD (elected 2012)
Kay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor, Genetics
Joseph S. Pagano, MD (elected 1998)
Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research and Director Emeritus, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Medicine; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Herbert B. Peterson, MD (elected 2007)
Chair and Professor, Maternal and Child Health
Barbara K. Rimer, PhD (elected 2008)
Alumni Distinguished Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
William L. Roper, MD (elected 1990)
Stuart Bondurant Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics and Health Policy and Administration
Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD (elected 2014)
Michael J. Hooker Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology
David R. Rubinow, MD (elected 2011)
Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry
Aziz Sancar, PhD, MD (elected 2016)
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Kunihiko Suzuki, MD (elected 1998)
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry
Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS (elected 1997)
Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine
Raymond P. White, PhD, DDS (elected 1982)
Dalton L. McMichael Professor, Oral Surgery