EurekaAlert says that Johns Hopkins School of Public Health bioethicist Nancy Kass has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. She is one of three JHU researchers elected this year.

Kass is the deputy director for public health at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Congratulations, Professor Kass, you have joined the ranks of bioethicists at the IOM. It’s an honor well-deserved.

Summer Johnson, PhD