Sharyl Nass

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ABOUT SHARYL NASS

Sharyl Nass, Ph.D. serves as Senior Program Director for Health Care and Public Health at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology, and medicine. The Program addresses delivery of primary and specialty health care across the life course, including care quality and patient safety, workforce, training, and financing, as well as public health services, including prevention, surveillance, epidemiology, and population health improvement. Dr. Nass also oversees the work of the National Cancer Policy Forum, which examines policy issues pertaining to the entire continuum of cancer research and care. For more than 25 years, Dr. Nass has worked on a broad range of health and science policy topics that includes the quality and safety of health care and clinical trials, oversight of health research, developing technologies for precision medicine, and strategies for large-scale biomedical science. She has a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Georgetown University and undertook postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany (as a Fulbright Fellow). She also holds a BS and an MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, and the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as team leader).