Three UCSF Faculty Elected to Institute of Medicine

Three UCSF faculty members are among 70 new members and 10 foreign associates of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced during the organizations 44th annual meeting announced on Oct. 20.

Eric P. Goosby, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Institute of Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy; Deepak Srivastava, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease; and Ron Vale, PhD, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator are the latest UCSF members, bringing the total number of IOM members elected from UCSF to 92.

These individuals and all UCSF members of the Institute of Medicine represent the breadth of our expertise, ranging from national and international leadership in public health to explorations into the genetic blueprint and smallest functional molecules, saidBruce Wintroub, MD, interim dean of the UCSF School of Medicine. Each of them has greatly contributed to our knowledge of disease and our advancement of human health. I congratulate Doctors Goosby, Srivastava and Vale for their extraordinary accomplishments, and I am grateful that they are part of the UCSF community.

Eric P. Goosby, MD

Goosby has a long career in international HIV/AIDS. He was the CEO and chief medical officer of Pangea Global AIDS Foundation from 2001 to 2009, and previously was the director of National AIDS Policy at the While House under President Clinton and the director of the Ryan White Care Act at the US Department of Health & Human Services.

In his role as the Global AIDS Ambassador, Goosby was the nations senior global health diplomat, advancing the mission to improve and save lives and to foster global sustainability. He oversaw PEPFAR (the Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief), the largest public health endeavor in history with over $45 billion invested in 10 years.

Deepak Srivastava, MD

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Three UCSF Faculty Elected to Institute of Medicine