Sidebar: IOM Members
The addition of four minority members will bring the institute's total minority representation to 47. That amounts to nearly 9 percent of its total active membership of 546, up from 6 percent in 1993. Joining IoM's ranks are new minority members Marilyn Gaston, assistant surgeon general and director of health resources and services administration at the Bureau of Primary Health Care with the Public Health Service; James Gavin, senior scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy chase, Md.; Mario Molina, Martin Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Gerald Thompson, Lambert Professor of Medicine and senior associate dean at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The proportion of minorities elected as senior and foreign associates also reached a new high, rising to 8 percent of 622 total senior and foreign associate members. The addition of five new senior associates-nonvoting ...
