Susan M. Wolf
Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy
Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law
Professor of Medicine
Prof. Susan M. Wolf Elected to Institute of Medicine
University of Minnesota Professor Susan M. Wolf, JD, has been elected to the National Academy’s Institute of Medicine (IOM). Prof. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre & Benson Professor of Law; Professor of Medicine; and a Faculty Member in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. She chairs the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences.
Election to the IOM is among the highest honors in the health and medicine fields and is a highly selective process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. The IOM charter requires that at least one-fourth of the membership is selected from fields outside the health professions, such as law, engineering, and the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences.
Election to the IOM is among the highest honors in the health and medicine fields and is a highly selective process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. The IOM charter requires that at least one-fourth of the membership is selected from fields outside the health professions, such as law, engineering, and the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences.