Margaret A. Hamburg, health commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, became the third member of her family to be elected to IoM. Her parents, psychiatrists David A. Hamburg, currently president of the New York-based Carnegie Corporation, and Beatrix A. Hamburg, who now serves as the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, were elected to the institute in 1971 and 1979, respectively.
Margaret Hamburg recalls that at the October annual meeting, at which she and the other new members--32 men and 18 women in all--were announced, "there was a sense of real enthusiasm and fun that the father-mother-daughter constellation had been formed."
"It's a real distinction in the medical profession," adds Hamburg, who at 39 is one of the youngest people to ever be elected to IoM. She and the other new members will be formally inducted into the institute during its October 1995 annual meeting.
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