Two from MIT Jameel Clinic elected to the National Academy of Medicine Class of 2025
On Monday, Oct. 20, the National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 100 new members, including two members of the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (MIT Jameel Clinic): Principal Investigator Dina Katabi and incoming Advisory Board Member Ravi Thadhani.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
Katabi, who is also the inaugural Thuan and Nicole Pham Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was elected for pioneering digital health technology that enables non-invasive, off-body remote health monitoring via AI and wireless signals, and for developing digital biomarkers for Parkinson’s progression and detection. She has translated this technology to advance objective, sensitive measures of disease trajectory and treatment response in clinical trials.
Katabi has also been recognized as a MacArthur Fellow; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize.
Thadhani, who is also the Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was elected for visionary leadership at three academic health centers and for pioneering research leading to the first FDA-approved test to predict preeclampsia, a major medical cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.
Previously, Thadhani served as Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at Emory University. Prior to Emory, he was a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Academic Officer and dean for Faculty Affairs at Mass General Brigham.
“I am deeply honored to welcome these extraordinary health and medicine leaders and researchers into the National Academy of Medicine,” says NAM President Victor J. Dzau. “Their demonstrated excellence in tackling public health challenges, leading major discoveries, improving health care, advancing health policy, and addressing health equity will critically strengthen our collective ability to tackle the most pressing health challenges of our time.”
