{"670387":{"#nid":"670387","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wilbur Lam Elected to National Academy of Medicine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe list of titles following Wilbur Lam\u2019s name is long, given his appointments at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta. Now he has a new one: member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELam is one of 100 newly elected members of the Academy for 2023, an honor reserved for people who\u2019ve made major contributions to medicine, healthcare, and public health. He joins a roster of just 2,400 or so individuals. Membership is considered one of the highest recognitions in health and medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis honor is extremely humbling because it\u2019s given to me as one person. But it really reflects the team effort that\u2019s surrounded me all these years,\u201d said Lam, W. Paul Bowers Research Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you look at all the work that they\u2019re recognizing me for, it starts with my laboratory, then goes beyond \u2014 into the centers that we\u2019ve developed related to diagnostic technologies, and then, all the work that we\u2019ve done for the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENew NAM members are nominated and elected by current members, and they\u2019re expected to contribute to National Academies activities providing independent analysis and advice to help the nation tackle complex problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELam, who is a pediatric hematologist\/oncologist at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta in addition to a researcher, was cited \u201cfor outstanding contributions in point-of-care, home-based, and\/or smartphone-enabled diagnostics that are changing the management of pediatric and hematologic diseases as well as development of microsystems technologies as research-enabling platforms to investigate blood biophysics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/wilbur-lam-elected-national-academy-medicine?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Wilbur%20Lam%20Elected%20to%20National%20Academy%20of%20Medicine\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20October%2012%2C%202023\u0022\u003ERead the full article on the College of Engineering website\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELam is a biomedical engineer and pediatrician whose work has included leading national efforts to rapidly verify Covid-19 tests and get them to market.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lam is a biomedical engineer and pediatrician whose work has included leading national efforts to rapidly verify Covid-19 tests and get them to market."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2023-10-12 15:13:22","changed_gmt":"2024-08-27 16:11:32","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635950":{"id":"635950","type":"image","title":"Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, faculty member of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.","body":null,"created":"1591281214","gmt_created":"2020-06-04 14:33:34","changed":"1591281252","gmt_changed":"2020-06-04 14:34:12","alt":"Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, faculty member of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.","file":{"fid":"241995","name":"18C5413_P2_006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C5413_P2_006.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C5413_P2_006.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":260117,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/18C5413_P2_006.jpg?itok=IAaCSPQJ"}}},"media_ids":["635950"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"660369","name":"Matter and Systems"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187433","name":"go-ien"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Stewart (jstewart@gatech.edu)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}