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Celebrating the 2025 AAMC Award Winners

Throughout their careers, these academic medicine faculty have had an outsize impact on medical education, the biomedical sciences, and patient care.

  • Oct. 23, 2025
Faisal Al-Juburi
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As immigration enforcement increases, so do health risks to detainees, advocate says

Faisal Al-Juburi, of legal aid nonprofit RAICES, sounds the alarm about the inhumane treatment of detained immigrants.

  • Oct. 21, 2025
Doctors looking at medical results on a laptop in a meeting at the hospital
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Medical schools train faculty on AI best practices

Faculty are training one another to understand artificial intelligence and use it to build curricula, develop quizzes, create presentations, and more.

  • Oct. 16, 2025
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Hospital food gets a healthy makeover

From hiring Michelin-star chefs to sourcing produce from local farmers, academic health systems are transforming their culinary services to help patients heal.

  • Oct. 14, 2025

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The growing toll of climate anxiety

Guilt, sadness, fear, worry over bringing children into the world. Eco-anxiety is growing. Here’s what doctors and medical educators can—and must—do to help.

  • Dec. 3, 2024
Portrait of a young teenage girl activist holding a sign protesting against climate change and global warming. She is standing outdoors on a city street and is holding signs with various messages, such as 'go green' and 'save our planet'. She is looking directly at the camera with a serious expression. Focus on the girl and her sign, with city street defocused beyond. Room for copy space.
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How medicine fails older people

We must change policies, improve training, expand research, and above all, combat ageism to care for millions of older Americans, a renowned geriatrician argues

  • Oct. 1, 2024
Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, speaks at a 2020 TEDMED talk about embracing elderhood as a significant stage of life.
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5 ways to combat surging syphilis cases in the United States

Syphilis has reached alarming rates unseen in the U.S. since the 1950s. A CDC expert lays out steps to halt increases and prevent dramatic health problems.

  • May 21, 2024
The young adult male sits on the hospital room couch to talk with the hospital insurance specialist to update medical information.
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Everyone should be tested for HIV: Here’s why

Making HIV testing a routine part of primary care could reduce inequities and infections, a health equity researcher argues.

  • July 25, 2023
Nurse in blood donation center training someone to insert line
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COVID-19 transparency: Where are the tests and when can we get them?

Home testing will play a critical role in managing future outbreaks. It’s time for the federal government to develop a national testing strategy.

  • Jan. 25, 2022
A woman using Covid-19 rapid self-test kit at home
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To end the drug crisis, bring addiction out of the shadows

Shame and stigma fuel addiction and prevent treatment, argues Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But compassion can save lives.

  • Nov. 2, 2021
National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow, MD, presenting her annual report to a meeting of principal investigators in the Clinical Trials Network in Rockville, Maryland.
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Here’s how we end the pandemic

The AAMC Research and Action Institute released report detailing critical steps the nation must take now and in the future to address public health emergencies.

  • Sept. 15, 2021
Graphic showing report cover that says "The Way Forward Starts Now"
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Bringing the COVID-19 vaccines to immigrant communities

Our student-run clinic overcame language and cultural barriers to vaccinate thousands who wouldn’t otherwise have gotten the vaccines.

  • July 22, 2021
Justin Lau gets a bandage after his COVID-19 shot from UC Davis medical student Khadija Soufi at Shifa Community Clinic in Sacramento as undergraduate student Dana Hazem looks on.
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Inequity in vaccinations isn’t always about hesitancy, it’s about access

Many Black and Hispanic people struggle to get access to COVID-19 vaccines. Bringing the vaccines to them can help reduce inequity.

  • April 12, 2021
A volunteer for GOTVax, an organization focused on bringing vaccines to hard-hit communities, administers a vaccine to a resident of a Boston Housing Authority building in an under-resourced neighborhood.
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We need to get more Latinx people vaccinated. Here's how

A history of medical abuse and immigrants' fear of deportation often drive vaccine hesitancy in Latinx communities. An expert weighs in on how to help.

  • Feb. 11, 2021
A Latinx patient receives a vaccine from a provider