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€œIn the third quarter of 2021, I am pleased to share that we achieved strong performance across our business, including exceeding the mid-point of our quarterly guidance for both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. €œIn addition to this financial and operational execution, we held our eighth annual Healthcare Analytics get viagra prescription online Summit conference in September, hosting more than 3,000 registrants representing more than 675 organizations and 18 countries. This year’s Summit was an important opportunity for Health Catalyst to continue to provide thought leadership within the healthcare data and analytics ecosystem, while further cultivating and deepening our relationships with customers and prospects.” Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 Key Financial Metrics Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 Year over Year ChangeGAAP Financial Data:(in thousands, except percentages, unaudited)Technology revenue$38,262 $27,964 37%Professional services revenue$23,475 $19,227 22%Total revenue$61,737 $47,191 31%Loss from operations$(42,249) $(23,458) (80)%Net loss$(40,014) $(27,326) (46)%Other Non-GAAP Financial Data:(1) Adjusted Technology Gross Profit$26,731 $19,115 40%Adjusted Technology Gross Margin70 % 68 % Adjusted Professional Services Gross Profit$4,696 $4,823 (3)%Adjusted Professional Services Gross Margin20 % 25 % Total Adjusted Gross Profit$31,427 $23,938 31%Total Adjusted Gross Margin51 % 51 % Adjusted EBITDA$(5,794) $(6,434) 10%_____________________ (1) These measures are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP). See the accompanying "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section below for more information about these financial measures, including the limitations of such measures, and for a reconciliation of each measure to the most directly comparable measure calculated in accordance with GAAP.

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Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed. Available Information Health Catalyst intends to use its Investor Relations website as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act get viagra prescription online of 1995, as amended. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding our future growth, the impact of erectile dysfunction treatment on our business and results of operations and our financial outlook for Q4 and fiscal year 2021.

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and reported results get viagra prescription online should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Important risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following. (i) changes in laws and regulations applicable to our business model.

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Cash and cash equivalents$275,765 $91,954 Short-term investments179,420 178,917 Accounts receivable, net47,681 48,296 Prepaid expenses and other assets12,471 10,632 Total current assets515,337 329,799 Property and equipment, net20,999 12,863 Intangible assets, net113,590 98,921 Operating lease right-of-use assets21,649 24,729 Goodwill169,659 107,822 Other assets4,279 3,606 Total assets$845,513 $577,740 Liabilities and stockholders’ equity Current liabilities. Accounts payable$4,771 $5,332 Accrued liabilities20,523 16,510 Acquisition-related consideration payable— 2,000 Deferred revenue55,332 47,145 Operating lease liabilities2,299 2,622 Contingent consideration liabilities2,601 14,427 Convertible senior notes, net177,837 — Total current liabilities263,363 88,036 Convertible senior notes, net— 168,994 Deferred revenue, net of current portion1,131 get viagra prescription online 1,878 Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion21,947 23,669 Contingent consideration liabilities, net of current portion7,632 16,837 Other liabilities2,234 2,227 Total liabilities296,307 301,641 Commitments and contingencies Stockholders’ equity. Common stock, $0.001 par value. 51,863,870 and 43,376,848 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively52 43 Additional paid-in capital1,379,032 1,001,645 Accumulated deficit(829,868) (725,650) Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income(10) 61 Total stockholders' equity549,206 276,099 Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$845,513 $577,740 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations(in thousands, except per share get viagra prescription online data, unaudited) Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 2021 2020Revenue.

Technology$38,262 $27,964 $107,630 $78,150 Professional services23,475 19,227 69,580 57,416 Total revenue61,737 47,191 177,210 135,566 Cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization. Technology(1)(2)12,094 9,045 34,766 25,148 Professional services(1)(2)20,992 15,307 55,711 46,401 Total cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization33,086 24,352 90,477 71,549 Operating expenses. Sales and marketing(1)(2)20,808 14,629 53,164 40,618 Research and development(1)(2)16,385 13,390 45,254 38,539 General and administrative(1)(2)(3)23,056 13,297 60,596 31,111 Depreciation and amortization10,651 4,981 26,604 10,952 Total operating expenses70,900 46,297 185,618 121,220 Loss from operations(42,249) (23,458) (98,885) (57,203) Loss on extinguishment of debt— — — (8,514) Interest and other expense, net(4,423) (3,854) (12,082) (7,500) get viagra prescription online Loss before income taxes(46,672) (27,312) (110,967) (73,217) Income tax provision (benefit)(2)(6,658) 14 (6,749) (1,218) Net loss$(40,014) $(27,326) $(104,218) $(71,999) Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(0.82) $(0.68) $(2.27) $(1.87) Weighted-average shares outstanding used in calculating net loss per share, basic and diluted48,999 40,292 45,937 38,517 Adjusted net loss(4)$(9,048) $(8,287) (11,802) (20,110) Adjusted net loss per share, basic and diluted(4)$(0.18) $(0.21) $(0.26) $(0.52) ______________________ (1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows. Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 2021 2020Stock-Based Compensation Expense:(in thousands) (in thousands)Cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization.

Technology$533 $196 $1,481 $575 Professional services2,149 903 5,866 2,609 Sales and marketing6,098 3,233 16,848 9,724 Research and development2,510 2,025 7,443 5,987 General and administrative6,197 3,139 17,086 8,388 Total$17,487 $9,496 $48,724 $27,283 (2) Includes acquisition-related costs (benefit), net as follows. Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 2021 2020Acquisition-related costs (benefit), net:(in thousands) (in thousands)Cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization get viagra prescription online. Technology$30 $— $30 $— Professional services64 — 64 — Sales and marketing296 — 296 — Research and development455 — 455 — General and administrative5,672 1,963 15,942 1,666 Income tax provision (benefit)(6,829) — (6,829) — Total$(312) $1,963 $9,958 $1,666 (3) Includes non-recurring lease-related charges, as follows. Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 2021 2020Non-recurring lease-related charges(in thousands) (in thousands)General and administrative$1,800 $584 $1,800 $709 (4) Includes non-GAAP adjustments to net loss.

Refer to the "Non-GAAP Financial Measures—Adjusted Net Loss Per Share" section below for further get viagra prescription online details. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows(in thousands, unaudited) Nine Months EndedSeptember 30,Cash flows from operating activities2021 2020Net loss$(104,218) $(71,999) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities. Depreciation and amortization26,604 10,952 Loss on extinguishment of debt— 8,514 Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs8,843 5,260 Impairment of lease-related assets1,800 — Non-cash operating lease expense3,165 2,865 Investment discount and premium amortization678 854 Provision for expected credit losses698 822 Stock-based compensation expense48,724 27,283 Deferred tax benefit(6,823) (1,280) Change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities13,655 (1,004) Settlement of acquisition-related contingent consideration(11,766) — Other(17) 85 Change in operating assets and liabilities. Accounts receivable, net1,021 (4,450) Prepaid expenses and other assets(2,131) (2,937) Accounts payable, accrued liabilities, and other liabilities3,281 6,567 Deferred revenue6,540 (838) Operating lease liabilities(3,402) (2,701) Net cash used in operating activities(13,348) (22,007) Cash flows from investing activities Purchase of short-term investments(188,407) (163,346) Proceeds from the sale and maturity of short-term investments186,893 208,467 Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired(46,763) (102,471) Purchase of property and equipment(9,827) (1,320) Capitalization of internal use software(3,641) (751) Purchase of intangible assets(1,269) (1,249) Proceeds from sale of property and equipment19 10 Net cash used in investing activities(62,995) (60,660) Cash flows from financing activities Proceeds from public offering, net of discounts, commissions, and offering costs245,180 — Proceeds from convertible note securities, net of issuance costs— 222,482 Purchase of capped calls concurrent with issuance of convertible senior notes— (21,743) Repayment of credit facilities— (57,043) Proceeds from exercise of stock options17,303 29,393 Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan3,975 3,528 Payments of acquisition-related consideration(6,290) (748) Net cash provided by financing activities260,168 175,869 Effect of exchange rate on cash and cash equivalents(14) 5 Net increase in cash and cash equivalents183,811 93,207 Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period91,954 18,032 Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$275,765 $111,239 Non-GAAP Financial Measures To supplement our financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, we believe get viagra prescription online certain non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net Loss, and Adjusted Net Loss per share, basic and diluted, are useful in evaluating our operating performance.

For example, we exclude stock-based compensation expense because it is non-cash in nature and excluding this expense provides meaningful supplemental information regarding our operational performance and allows investors the ability to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies. We use this non-GAAP financial information to evaluate our ongoing operations, as a component in determining employee bonus compensation, and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. We believe that non-GAAP financial information, when taken collectively, may get viagra prescription online be helpful to investors because it provides consistency and comparability with past financial performance. However, non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP.

In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate similarly-titled non-GAAP measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance. A reconciliation is provided below for each non-GAAP financial get viagra prescription online measure to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business. Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted Gross Margin Adjusted Gross Profit is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as revenue less cost of revenue, excluding depreciation get viagra prescription online and amortization, stock-based compensation, and acquisition-related costs, net.

We define Adjusted Gross Margin as our Adjusted Gross Profit divided by our revenue. We believe Adjusted Gross Profit and Adjusted Gross Margin are useful to investors as they eliminate the impact of certain non-cash expenses and allow a direct comparison of these measures between periods without the impact of non-cash expenses and certain other non-recurring operating expenses. The following is a reconciliation of revenue, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, to Adjusted Gross Profit, for the three months ended September get viagra prescription online 30, 2021 and 2020. Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 (in thousands, except percentages) Technology Professional Services TotalRevenue$38,262 $23,475 $61,737 Cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization(12,094) (20,992) (33,086) Gross profit, excluding depreciation and amortization26,168 2,483 28,651 Add.

Stock-based compensation533 2,149 2,682 Acquisition-related costs, net(1)30 64 94 Adjusted Gross Profit$26,731 $4,696 $31,427 Gross margin, excluding depreciation and amortization68 % 11 % 46 %Adjusted Gross Margin70 % 20 % 51 %_________________________________(1) Acquisition-related costs, net impacting Adjusted Gross Profit includes deferred retention payments and post-acquisition restructuring costs incurred as part of business combinations. For additional get viagra prescription online details refer to Note 2 in our condensed consolidated financial statements. Three Months Ended September 30, 2020 (in thousands, except percentages) Technology Professional Services TotalRevenue$27,964 $19,227 $47,191 Cost of revenue, excluding depreciation and amortization(9,045) (15,307) (24,352) Gross profit, excluding depreciation and amortization18,919 3,920 22,839 Add. Stock-based compensation196 903 1,099 Adjusted Gross Profit$19,115 $4,823 $23,938 Gross margin, excluding depreciation and amortization68 % 20 % 48 %Adjusted Gross Margin68 % 25 % 51 %Adjusted EBITDA Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as net loss adjusted for (i) interest and other expense, net, (ii) income tax (benefit) provision, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) stock-based compensation, (v) acquisition-related costs, net, including the change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities, and (vi) non-recurring lease-related charges.

We view acquisition-related expenses when applicable, such as transaction costs and changes in the fair value of contingent consideration liabilities that are directly related to business combinations as costs that are unpredictable, dependent upon factors outside of our get viagra prescription online control, and are not necessarily reflective of operational performance during a period. We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors with useful information on period-to-period performance as evaluated by management and comparison with our past financial performance and is useful in evaluating our operating performance compared to that of other companies in our industry, as this metric generally eliminates the effects of certain items that may vary from company to company for reasons unrelated to overall operating performance. The following is a reconciliation of our net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, to Adjusted EBITDA, for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 get viagra prescription online (in thousands)Net loss$(40,014) $(27,326) Add.

Interest and other expense, net4,423 3,854 Income tax (benefit) provision(6,658) 14 Depreciation and amortization10,651 4,981 Stock-based compensation17,487 9,496 Acquisition-related costs, net(1)6,517 1,963 Non-recurring lease-related charges(2)1,800 584 Adjusted EBITDA$(5,794) $(6,434) ________________________________(1) Acquisition-related costs, net impacting Adjusted EBITDA includes legal, due diligence, accounting, consulting fees, deferred retention payments, and post-acquisition restructuring costs incurred as part of business combinations, and changes in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities for potential earn-out payments. For additional details refer to Note 2 in our condensed consolidated financial statements.(2) Includes the lease-related impairment charge for the subleased portion of our corporate headquarters and duplicate rent expense incurred during the relocation of our corporate headquarters. Adjusted Net Loss Per Share Adjusted Net Loss is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as net loss adjusted for (i) stock-based compensation, (ii) amortization of acquired intangibles, (iii) loss on extinguishment of debt, (iv) acquisition-related costs (benefit), net, including the change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities and the deferred tax valuation allowance release from the acquisition of Twistle, (v) non-cash interest expense related to our get viagra prescription online convertible senior notes, and (vi) non-recurring lease-related charges. We believe Adjusted Net Loss provides investors with useful information on period-to-period performance as evaluated by management and comparison with our past financial performance and is useful in evaluating our operating performance compared to that of other companies in our industry, as this metric generally eliminates the effects of certain items that may vary from company to company for reasons unrelated to overall operating performance.

Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 2020 2021 2020Numerator:(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)Net loss$(40,014) $(27,326) $(104,218) $(71,999) Add. Stock-based compensation17,487 9,496 48,724 27,283 Amortization of acquired intangibles8,965 4,276 23,091 8,786 get viagra prescription online Loss on extinguishment of debt— — — 8,514 Acquisition-related costs (benefit), net(1)(312) 1,963 9,958 1,666 Non-cash interest expense related to convertible senior notes3,026 2,720 8,843 4,931 Non-recurring lease-related charges(2)1,800 584 1,800 709 Adjusted Net Loss$(9,048) $(8,287) $(11,802) $(20,110) Denominator. Weighted-average number of shares used in calculating net loss, basic and diluted48,998,548 40,292,380 45,937,227 38,517,272 Adjusted Net Loss per share, basic and diluted$(0.18) $(0.21) $(0.26) $(0.52) _____________________(1) Acquisition-related costs (benefit), net impacting Adjusted Net Loss includes legal, due diligence, accounting, consulting fees, deferred retention payments, and post-acquisition restructuring costs incurred as part of business combinations, changes in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities for potential earn-out payments, and the deferred tax valuation allowance release from the acquisition of Twistle. For additional details refer to Notes get viagra prescription online 2 and 13 in our condensed consolidated financial statements.(2) Includes the lease-related impairment charge for the subleased portion of our corporate headquarters and duplicate rent expense incurred during the relocation of our corporate headquarters.

Health Catalyst Investor Relations Contact:Adam BrownSenior Vice President, Investor Relations and FP&A+1 (855)-309-6800ir@healthcatalyst.com Health Catalyst Media Contact:Amanda HundtVice President, Corporate Communicationsamanda.hundt@healthcatalyst.com+1 (575) 491-0974SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst", Nasdaq get viagra prescription online. HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, will release its 2021 third quarter operating results on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, after market close.

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The National Academy of Medicine what is viagra for women (NAM) today announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.“It is my privilege to welcome this extraordinary class of new members. Their contributions to health and medicine are unmatched – they’ve made groundbreaking what is viagra for women discoveries, taken bold action against social inequities, and led the response to some of the greatest public health challenges of our time,” said National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau. €œThis is also the NAM’s most diverse class of new members to date, composed of approximately 50% women and 50% racial and ethnic minorities.

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Adams, MD, PhD, director, Center for American what is viagra for women Indian and Rural Health Equity, and professor of sociology and anthropology, Montana State University. For her work partnering with Indigenous communities in the Midwest and Montana and pioneering community-engaged research methods.Michelle Asha Albert, MD, MPH, professor, Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, and admissions dean, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. And director, CeNter what is viagra for women for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). For pioneering research at the intersection of psychosocial stress (including discrimination), social inequities, and the biochemical markers of heart disease, and her unique interdisciplinary lens that has illuminated root causes of cardiovascular disease and facilitated the identification of interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease risks for diverse racial/ethnic groups and women.

Guillermo Antonio Ameer, ScD, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. For pioneering contributions to regenerative engineering and medicine through the development, dissemination, and translation of citrate-based biomaterials, a new class of biodegradable polymers that enabled the commercialization of innovative medical what is viagra for women devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in a variety of surgical procedures.Jamy D. Ard, MD, professor of epidemiology and prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine. For his varied use of individually tailored, state-of-the-art approaches to treat obesity, profoundly impact his patients’ health and well-being, and reduce what is viagra for women the burden of diseases associated with obesity, such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension.John M.

Balbus, MD, MPH, interim director, Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health what is viagra for women and Human Services. And senior adviser for public health, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Institutes of Health. For leadership in confronting the health challenges of climate change — from developing the first risk assessment approaches to working at the interface of science and U.S. National policy.Carolina Barillas-Mury, MD, PhD, distinguished investigator, Laboratory of Malaria what is viagra for women and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health.

For discovering how plasmodium parasites manipulate the mosquito immune system to survive, and how these interactions maintain global malaria transmission. Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, William K. Warren Endowed Chair and professor of pediatrics, Vanderbilt University what is viagra for women Medical Center. For pioneering pragmatic randomized controlled trials in community settings, undertaken in collaboration with parents and community partners, and addressing health disparities in pediatric obesity.Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, Richard E.

Wilson MD Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School what is viagra for women. Associate surgeon, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. And group chair, Alliance for Clinical Trials in what is viagra for women Oncology. For numerous leadership roles in multi-institutional cancer clinical research consortia and advancing the quality and scope of research to bring important new treatments to people with cancer.Luciana Lopes Borio, MD, senior fellow for global health, Council on Foreign Relations. And venture partner, Arch Venture Partners.

For expertise what is viagra for women on scientific and policy matters related to biodefense and public health emergencies.Erik Brodt, MD, associate professor of family medicine, Oregon Health &. Science University. For leadership in American Indian/Alaska Native workforce development and pioneering innovative methods to identify, inspire, and support American Indian/Alaska Native youth to excel.Kendall Marvin Campbell, MD, FAAFP, professor and chair, department of family medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. For his work in assessing academic what is viagra for women and community factors impacting the development of a diverse medical workforce to further health equity, co-developing a Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine, and creating a research group for underrepresented minorities in academic medicine, presenting and publishing his findings regionally and nationally.Pablo A. Celnik, MD, Lawrence Cardinal Shehan Professor of Rehabilitation and director, department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Physiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital. And director of what is viagra for women rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins Medicine. For work that has transformed our understanding of the physiologic mediators of human motor learning and identified actionable mechanisms for augmenting its acquisition and retention.David Clapham, MD, PhD, vice president and chief scientific officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Group leader, what is viagra for women HHMI Janelia Research Campus. And Aldo R.

Castañeda Professor of Cardiovascular Research, emeritus, and professor of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School. For making paradigm-shifting what is viagra for women discoveries in the field of ion channel signaling. Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, MD, MPH, secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. For creating a strategic alignment of Medicaid, public health, and behavioral health and human services designed to bring about critical improvements in health during her tenure as North Carolina’s secretary of health and human services.Daniel E. Dawes, JD, executive director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of what is viagra for women Medicine.

For national leadership in health equity, and whose groundbreaking books “150 Years of Obamacare” and “Political Determinants of Health” have reframed the conversation and led to actionable policy solutions.Ted M. Dawson, MD, PhD, director, Institute for Cell Engineering. Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in what is viagra for women Neurodegenerative Diseases. And professor of neurology, neuroscience, and pharmacology and molecular sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For pioneering and seminal work on how neurons degenerate in Parkinson’s disease and providing insights into the development of disease-modifying what is viagra for women treatments for Parkinson’s disease and other neurologic disorders.Job Dekker, PhD, Joseph J.

Byrne Chair in Biomedical Research and professor, department of systems biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. And investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For introducing what is viagra for women the groundbreaking concept that matrices of genomic interactions can be used to determine chromosome conformation.Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, JD, partner and co-founder, Consonance Capital Partners. For her leadership in the development and passage of the Affordable Care Act, major role as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and work on various NAM committees.Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD, associate professor, vice chair of research, and division chief of radiation and cancer biology, department of radiation oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine. For developing and clinically translating novel diagnostic technologies for facilitating precision medicine techniques, and for integrating advanced precision medicine into the area of liquid biopsies.Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, K.

Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate what is viagra for women Professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Duke University Medical Center. For seminal contributions to the neuroscience of emotion and mental illness. For pioneering methods for massively parallel neural recordings and analysis thereof in mice. And for contributions to society through science policy and advocacy, a commitment to mentoring, and support for efforts to build a diverse and what is viagra for women inclusive scientific workforce.Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD, professor of medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

For pioneering work on innate immune receptors, signaling what is viagra for women pathways, and regulation of inflammatory gene expression.Yuman Fong, MD, Sangiacomo Family Chair in Surgical Oncology, chair, department of surgery, City of Hope. For transforming the fields of liver surgery, robotics in surgery, imaging and display in medicine, and gene therapy.Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPh, professor emeritus, University of Washington School of Public Health. For his work on health impacts from the environment, including those from climate change and other planetary processes, and on healthy pathways to sustainability.Andrés J. Garcia PhD, executive director, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and Regents’ Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of what is viagra for women Technology. For significant contributions to new biomaterial platforms that elicit targeted tissue repair, innovative technologies to exploit cell adhesive interactions, and mechanistic insights into mechanobiology.Darrell J.

Gaskin, PhD, MS, William C. And Nancy what is viagra for women F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. For his work as a leading health economist and health services researcher who has advanced fundamental understanding of the role of place as a driver in racial and what is viagra for women ethnic health disparities.Wondwossen Abebe Gebreyes, DVM, PhD, Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor, and executive director, Global One Health Initiative, Ohio State University.

For leadership in molecular epidemiology and global health and fundamental insight into how animal agricultural and environmental systems influence public health, community development, and livelihood worldwide.Jessica Gill, RN, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. For reporting (along with her team) that what is viagra for women acute plasma tau predicts prolonged return to play after a sport-related concussion.Paul Ginsburg, PhD, professor of health policy, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC). Senior fellow, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. And nonresident senior fellow, Brookings Institution. For his leading what is viagra for women role in shaping health policy by founding three influential organizations.

The Physician Payment Review Commission (now MedPAC). The Center for Studying Health System Change. And the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.Sherita Hill Golden, MD, what is viagra for women MHS, Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism. And vice president and what is viagra for women chief diversity officer, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

For identifying biological and systems contributors to disparities in diabetes and its outcomes.Joseph Gone, PhD, professor of global health and social medicine, Harvard Medical School. Professor of anthropology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. And faculty what is viagra for women director, Harvard University Native American Program. For being a leading figure among Native American mental health researchers whose work on cultural psychology, historical trauma, Indigenous healing, and contextual factors affecting mental health assessment and treatment has been highly influential and widely recognized.John D. Grabenstein, RPh, PhD, president, treatment Dynamics, and retired U.S.

Army colonel what is viagra for women. For establishing vaccination services by pharmacists across the U.S. By developing nationally adopted policy frameworks and curricula that trained more than 360,000 pharmacists as vaccinators, enabling rapid, widespread delivery of erectile dysfunction treatment and other treatments. For advancing international vaccination and what is viagra for women medical countermeasure programs. And for contributions to pharmacy national leadership development.Linda G.

Griffith, PhD, professor of biological and mechanical engineering what is viagra for women and director, Center for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For long-standing leadership in research, education, and medical translation. For pioneering work in tissue engineering, biomaterials, and systems biology, including developing the first “liver chip” technology. Inventing 3D biomaterials what is viagra for women printing and organotypic models for systems gynopathology. And for the establishment of the MIT Biological Engineering Department.Taekjip Ha, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, biophysics and biophysical chemistry, biophysics, and biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

And investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For co-inventing the single-molecule FRET what is viagra for women (smFRET) technology and making numerous technological innovations, which enabled powerful biological applications to DNA, RNA, and nucleic acid enzymes involved in genome maintenance.William C. Hahn, MD, PhD, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. For fundamental contributions in the understanding of cancer initiation, maintenance, and progression.Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, chair, research theme in health equity and translational social science, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. For leadership in the intersection of opioid addiction, race and ethnicity, social what is viagra for women determinants of health, and social medicine.

And for co-developing structural competency as clinical redress for institutional drivers of health inequalities.Mary Elizabeth Hatten, PhD, Frederick P. Rose Professor what is viagra for women and head, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Rockefeller University. For foundational developmental studies of cerebellum that have broad significance for understanding human brain disorders, including autism, medulloblastoma, and childhood epilepsy.Mary T. Hawn, MD, MPH, Emile Holman Professor and chair of surgery, Stanford University. For being what is viagra for women a leading surgeon, educator, and health services researcher whose innovative work has built valid measurements for quality care, improved care standards, and changed surgical care guidelines.Zhigang He, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.

And Boston Children’s Hospital principal member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute. For his breakthrough discoveries regarding the mechanisms of axon regeneration and functional repair following central nervous system injuries, providing foundational knowledge and molecular targets for developing restorative therapies to treat spinal cord injury, stroke, glaucoma, and other neurodegenerative disorders.Hugh Carroll Hemmings Jr., MD, PhD, FRCA, senior associate dean for research, Joseph F. Artusio Jr what is viagra for women. Professor, chair of the department of anesthesiology, and professor of pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine. For being a pioneer in the neuropharmacology of general anesthetic mechanisms on neurotransmitter release, including effects on voltage-gated ion channels critical to producing unconsciousness, amnesia, and paralysis.Rene Hen, PhD, professor of psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

For discovering the role of neurogenesis in the mechanism of action of antidepressant medications and making seminal contributions to our understanding of serotonin receptors in health and disease.Helen what is viagra for women Elisabeth Heslop, MD, DSc (Hon), Dan L. Duncan Chair, professor of pediatrics and medicine, and director, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine. For pioneering work in complex biological therapies, leadership in clinical immunotherapy, and for being the first to employ donor and banked cytotoxic T cells to treat lethal viagra-associated malignancies and s in pivotal trials.Renee Yuen-Jan Hsia, MD, what is viagra for women MSc, professor of emergency medicine and health policy, and associate chair of health services research, department of emergency medicine, University of California, San Francisco. For expertise in health disparities of emergency care, integrating the disciplines of economics, health policy, and clinical investigation.Lori L. Isom, PhD, Maurice H.

Seevers Professor of Pharmacology and chair, department of pharmacology, what is viagra for women professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and professor of neurology, University of Michigan Medical School. For discovering sodium channel non-pore-forming beta subunits and leadership in understanding novel neuro-cardiac mechanisms of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.Kathrin U. Jansen, PhD, senior vice president and head of treatment research and development, Pfizer Inc. For leading the teams what is viagra for women that produced three revolutionary treatments. Gardasil, targeting human papillomaviagra.

Prevnar 13, targeting 13 strains of pneumococcus. And the Pfizer/BioNTech SARS-erectile dysfunction treatment-2 mRNA what is viagra for women treatment. Christine Kreuder Johnson, VMD, MPVM, PhD, professor of epidemiology and ecosystem health, and director, EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics, One Health Institute at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. For work as a pioneering investigator in global health, data science and technology, and interdisciplinary what is viagra for women disease investigations and in identifying and predicting impacts of environmental change on health, and creating novel worldwide outbreak preparedness strategies and paradigm shifting synergies for environmental stewardship to protect people, animals, and ecosystems.Mariana Julieta Kaplan, MD, chief, systemic autoimmunity branch, and deputy scientific director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health. For seminal contributions that have significantly advanced the understanding of the pathogenic role of the innate immune system in systemic autoimmune diseases, atherosclerosis, and immune-mediated vasculopathies.Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of radiology (physics), Columbia University.

For leadership and innovation in uasound and other advanced imaging modalities and their application in the clinical management of significant health care problems such as cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer, through licensing to the major imaging companies.Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM, professor of emergency medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine. For being a scholar, educator, and advocate on the effects of what is viagra for women climate change on human health, with special focus on the impacts on vulnerable populations.Joan L. Luby, MD, Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Child Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.

For elucidating the clinical characteristics and neural correlates of early childhood depression, a crucial public health concern. Kenneth David Mandl, MD, MPH, Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School. And director, computational health informatics program, Boston Children’s Hospital. For creating technological solutions to clinical and public health problems.Jennifer J.

Manly, PhD, professor, department of neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. For her pioneering work improving detection of cognitive impairment among racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse adults that has had a profound impact on the field of neuropsychology, and her visionary research on the social, biological, and behavioral pathways between early life education and later life cognitive function.Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD, director, Center for Genetic Medicine, Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine, and professor of medicine (cardiology), biochemistry, and molecular genetics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. For discovering genetic variants responsible for multiple distinct inherited cardiac and skeletal myopathic disorders and pioneering techniques for mapping modifiers of single gene disorders by integrating genomic and transcriptomic data to define the pathways that mediate disease risk and progression.Nancy Messonnier, MD, executive director, viagra prevention and health systems, Skoll Foundation.

For her efforts in tackling the erectile dysfunction treatment viagra and building a global preparedness and response system to prevent future viagras.Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, associate professor, department of neurology and neurological sciences, Stanford University Medical Center. For making groundbreaking discoveries at the intersection of neurodevelopment, neuroplasticity, and brain tumor biology.Vamsi K. Mootha, MD, professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School. Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

And member, Broad Institute. For transforming the field of mitochondrial biology by creatively combining modern genomics with classical bioenergetics.Lennart Mucke, MD, director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Gladstone Institutes. And Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco. For his leading role in defining molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms by which Alzheimer’s disease causes synaptic failure, neural network dysfunctions, and cognitive decline.

Vivek Hallegere Murthy, MD, MBA, 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For being the first person to be nominated twice as surgeon general of the U.S., and leading the national response to some of America’s greatest public health challenges. The Ebola and Zika viagraes, the opioid crisis, an epidemic of stress and loneliness, and now the erectile dysfunction treatment viagra.Jane Wimpfheimer Newburger, MD, MPH, Commonwealth Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. And associate cardiologist-in-chief, academic affairs, Boston Children’s Hospital.

For her world-renowned work in pediatric-acquired and congenital heart diseases.Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, professor and executive vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion, department of medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). And co-director, community engagement research program, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute. For making substantive intellectual, scientific, and policy contributions to the areas of chronic kidney disease and health disparities in under-resourced minority communities. Developing transformative methods for community-partnered research.

And developing and implementing innovative programs that have successfully increased diversity in the biomedical/health workforce.Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management, and associate dean of health equity research, Yale School of Medicine. For notable contributions to health equity that have been distinguished nationally, including being named chair of the Governor’s ReOpen CT Advisory Group Community Committee, co-chair of President Biden’s Transition erectile dysfunction treatment Advisory Board, and chair of the U.S. erectile dysfunction treatment Health Equity Task Force.Osagie Obasogie, JD, PhD, Haas Distinguished Chair and professor of law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. And professor of bioethics, Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

For bringing multidisciplinary insights to understanding race and medicine and climatic disruptions that threaten to exacerbate health inequalities.Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP, chief health equity officer and senior vice president, Humana Inc.. And adjunct professor, Ohio State University School of Medicine and College of Public Health. For innovation in health equity, primary care and health systems transformation, health information technology, and workforce diversity. Being the architect of many profound delivery innovations for underserved communities. And leadership efforts in making the U.S.

And other health systems more efficient, effective, and equitable.Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, professor of neurology and associate dean, University of California, San Francisco. And chief of staff, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System. For leading several pioneering National Institutes of Health-funded research programs addressing the burden of stroke in vulnerable populations (racial and ethnic minorities, the socioeconomically disadvantaged, the uninsured, and rural dwellers) in the U.S. And Africa, as well as creating transformative NIH-supported training initiatives in both regions targeting individuals who are underrepresented in medicine and science.Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD, Abeloff Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. And director, Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

For discovering two immune cell types and leadership in cancer immunotherapy, which has revolutionized oncology.Guillermo Prado, PhD, MS, vice provost, faculty affairs. Dean, Graduate School. And professor of nursing and health studies, and public health sciences and psychology, University of Miami. For his scholarship in prevention science, and for his effective youth- and family-focused HIV and substance-use prevention interventions, which have been scaled throughout school systems and clinical settings in the U.S. And Latin America.Carla M.

Pugh, MD, PhD, FACS, professor of surgery and director, Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement (T.E.C.I.) Center, department of surgery, Stanford University. For pioneering sensor technology research that helped to define, characterize, and inspire new and innovative performance metrics and data analysis strategies for the emerging field of digital health care.Charles M. Rice, PhD, Maurice R. And Corinne P. Greenberg Professor and head, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Rockefeller University.

For helping to identify the hepatitis C viagra proteins required for viral replication and developing culture systems that enabled the discovery of direct-acting antiviral drugs that can cure virtually all infected patients who would otherwise risk premature death from liver failure and cancer.Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, FACMI, professor, department of genetics. Director, Center for Translational Bioinformatics. Associate director, Institute for Biomedical Informatics. And associate director, Penn Center for Precision Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

For paradigm-changing research demonstrating the utility of electronic health records for identifying clinical diseases or phenotypes that can be integrated with genomic data from biobanks for genomic medicine discovery and implementation science.Yvette D. Roubideaux, MD, MPH, director, Policy Research Center, National Congress of American Indians. For pioneering the translation of evidence-based interventions to reduce incident diabetes and related cardiovascular complications among tens of thousands of American Indians and Alaska Natives.Eric J. Rubin, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine. For pioneering bacterial genetic tools being used to create the next generation of anti-tuberculosis drugs.Renee N.

Salas, MD, MPH, MS, affiliated faculty, Harvard Global Health Institute. Yerby Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And attending physician, department of emergency medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. For rapidly advancing the medical community’s understanding at the nexus of climate change, health, and health care through highly influential and transformative work, such as with the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and the New England Journal of Medicine.Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, chief patient experience and equity officer, Mass General Brigham.

And professor of medicine and health care policy, Harvard Medical School. For expertise in Native American health, quality of care, and health care equity.Kosali Ilayperuma Simon, PhD, Class of 1948 Herman Wells Professor and associate vice provost for health sciences, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. For her scholarly insights on how economic and social factors interact with government regulations to affect health care delivery and population health.Melissa Andrea Simon, MD, MPH, George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, medical social sciences, and preventive medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. For paradigm-shifting implementation research that has elevated the science of health care disparities and has transformed women’s health practice, policy, and outcomes.Anil Kumar Sood, MD, FACOG, FACS, professor and vice chair for translational research, department of gynecologic oncology and reproductive medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

For discovering the mechanistic basis of chronic stress on cancer and the pivotal role of tumor-IL6 in causing paraneoplastic thrombocytosis. Developing the first RNAi therapeutics and translating multiple new drugs from lab to clinic. And devising and implementing a paradigm shifting surgical algorithm for advanced ovarian cancer, dramatically increasing complete resection rates.Reisa Sperling, MD, director, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment. Associate neurologist, department of neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. And professor of neurology, Harvard Medical School.

For pioneering clinical research that revolutionized the concept of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.Sarah Loeb Szanton, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and Patricia M. Davidson Health Equity and Social Justice Endowed Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. For pioneering new approaches to reducing health disparities among low-income older adults.Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD, David and Lynn Silfen University Professor, departments of genetics and biology. And director, Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

For being a pioneer of African evolutionary genomics research.Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD, professor and Francis and Albert Piansky Chair, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. For being a pioneer in molecular lipid metabolism, defining basic physiology and revealing connections to human disease.JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA, professor of pharmacology and assistant vice chancellor, health sciences, faculty affairs, University of California, San Diego. For her discoveries of how cellular responses are regulated by G protein-coupled receptors in the context of vascular inflammation and cancer.Gilbert Rivers Upchurch Jr., MD, Edward M. Copeland III and Ann and Ira Horowitz Chair, department of surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine. For making seminal contributions to the understanding of the pathogenesis of vascular disease and contributing greatly to the advancement of all aspects of vascular and surgical care.Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, FAAN, contributing scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

For her career-long dedication to advancing the science on climate change and health, particularly in the area of disaster nursing.Leslie Birgit Vosshall, PhD, Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, Rockefeller University. And investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For building the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti into a genetic model organism for neurobiology and uncovering major insights into how these disease-vectoring insects select and feed on the blood of human hosts.Rochelle Paula Walensky, MD, MPH, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For her work that motivated changes to HIV and erectile dysfunction treatment guidelines, influenced public health practice, and provided rigorous evidence for decisions by the U.S. Congress, the World Health Organization, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, professor, department of pediatrics, division of host microbe systems and therapeutics, University of California San Diego.

For pioneering work on antimalarial drug development.Cynthia Wolberger, PhD, professor, department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry and department of oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For pioneering structural studies elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying combinatorial regulation of transcription, ubiquitin signaling, and epigenetic histone modifications, which have provided a foundation for drug discovery.Anita K.M. Zaidi, MBBS, SM, president, gender equality. And director of treatment development and surveillance and of enteric and diarrheal diseases, Bill &. Melinda Gates Foundation.

For global leadership in pediatric infectious disease research and capacity development relevant to improving newborn and child survival in developing countries.Shannon Nicole Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, director, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health. For research on the built environment in racial/ethnic minority and low-income neighborhoods that enriched understanding of the factors that influence health and contribute to health disparities, demonstrating the need for multilevel approaches to improve health and achieve health equity.Feng Zhang, PhD, James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For revolutionizing molecular biology and powering transformative leaps forward in our ability to study and treat human diseases through the discovery of novel microbial enzymes and systems and their development as molecular technologies, such as optogenetics and CRISPR-mediated genome editing, and for outstanding mentoring and professional services. Newly elected international members and their election citations are:Richard M.K. Adanu, MBChB, MPH, FWACS, FGCS, FACOG, rector and professor of women’s reproductive health, University of Ghana School of Public Health.

For spearheading human resource and research capacity building in Ghana and personally engaging in South-South research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa.Hilary O.D. Critchley, MBChB, MD, FRCOG, FMedSci, FRSE, professor of reproductive medicine, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh. For pioneering fundamental studies on endometrial physiology (including endocrine-immune interactions, role/regulation of local inflammatory mediators, and tissue injury and repair) that have made major contributions to the understanding of mechanisms regulating onset of menstruation/menstrual disorders.Jennifer Leigh Gardy, PhD, deputy director, surveillance, data, and epidemiology, malaria team, Bill &. Melinda Gates Foundation. For pioneering work as a big data scientist, harnessing innovation and communication to bring interdisciplinary problem-solving and leading-edge technologies to bear to elucidate infectious disease dynamics in the face of a changing climate, and for using the new domain of pathogen genomics to improve population health around the globe.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, director general, World Health Organization.

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The National Academy of Medicine, established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine. The natural, social, and behavioral sciences. And beyond. It serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as an adviser to the nation and the international community. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors.

The NAM collaborates closely with its peer academies and other divisions within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. With their election, NAM members make a commitment to volunteer their service in National Academies activities.Contacts:Dana Korsen, Director of Media RelationsStephanie Miceli, Media Relations OfficerOffice of News and Public Information202-334-2138. E-mail news@nas.eduOctober 27, 2021 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have jointly identified 10 guiding principles that can inform the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP). These guiding principles will help promote safe, effective, and high-quality medical devices that use artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have the potential to transform health care by deriving new and important insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of health care every day. They use software algorithms to learn from real-world use and in some situations may use this information to improve the product's performance. But they also present unique considerations due to their complexity and the iterative and data-driven nature of their development. These 10 guiding principles are intended to lay the foundation for developing Good Machine Learning Practice that addresses the unique nature of these products. They will also help cultivate future growth in this rapidly progressing field.

The 10 guiding principles identify areas where the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), international standards organizations and other collaborative bodies could work to advance GMLP. Areas of collaboration include research, creating educational tools and resources, international harmonization, and consensus standards, which may help inform regulatory policies and regulatory guidelines. We envision these guiding principles may be used to. Adopt good practices that have been proven in other sectors Tailor practices from other sectors so they are applicable to medical technology and the health care sector Create new practices specific for medical technology and the health care sector As the AI/ML medical device field evolves, so too must GMLP best practice and consensus standards. Strong partnerships with our international public health partners will be crucial if we are to empower stakeholders to advance responsible innovations in this area.

Thus, we expect this initial collaborative work can inform our broader international engagements, including with the IMDRF. We welcome your continued feedback through the public docket (FDA-2019-N-1185) at Regulations.gov, and we look forward to engaging with you on these efforts. The Digital Health Center of Excellence is spearheading this work for the FDA. Contact us directly at Digitalhealth@fda.hhs.gov, software@mhra.gov.uk, and mddpolicy-politiquesdim@hc-sc.gc.ca. Guiding principles Multi-Disciplinary Expertise Is Leveraged Throughout the Total Product Life Cycle.

In-depth understanding of a model's intended integration into clinical workflow, and the desired benefits and associated patient risks, can help ensure that ML-enabled medical devices are safe and effective and address clinically meaningful needs over the lifecycle of the device. Good Software Engineering and Security Practices Are Implemented. Model design is implemented with attention to the "fundamentals". Good software engineering practices, data quality assurance, data management, and robust cybersecurity practices. These practices include methodical risk management and design process that can appropriately capture and communicate design, implementation, and risk management decisions and rationale, as well as ensure data authenticity and integrity.

Clinical Study Participants and Data Sets Are Representative of the Intended Patient Population. Data collection protocols should ensure that the relevant characteristics of the intended patient population (for example, in terms of age, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity), use, and measurement inputs are sufficiently represented in a sample of adequate size in the clinical study and training and test datasets, so that results can be reasonably generalized to the population of interest. This is important to manage any bias, promote appropriate and generalizable performance across the intended patient population, assess usability, and identify circumstances where the model may underperform. Training Data Sets Are Independent of Test Sets. Training and test datasets are selected and maintained to be appropriately independent of one another.

All potential sources of dependence, including patient, data acquisition, and site factors, are considered and addressed to assure independence. Selected Reference Datasets Are Based Upon Best Available Methods. Accepted, best available methods for developing a reference dataset (that is, a reference standard) ensure that clinically relevant and well characterized data are collected and the limitations of the reference are understood. If available, accepted reference datasets in model development and testing that promote and demonstrate model robustness and generalizability across the intended patient population are used. Model Design Is Tailored to the Available Data and Reflects the Intended Use of the Device.

Model design is suited to the available data and supports the active mitigation of known risks, like overfitting, performance degradation, and security risks. The clinical benefits and risks related to the product are well understood, used to derive clinically meaningful performance goals for testing, and support that the product can safely and effectively achieve its intended use. Considerations include the impact of both global and local performance and uncertainty/variability in the device inputs, outputs, intended patient populations, and clinical use conditions. Focus Is Placed on the Performance of the Human-AI Team. Where the model has a "human in the loop," human factors considerations and the human interpretability of the model outputs are addressed with emphasis on the performance of the Human-AI team, rather than just the performance of the model in isolation.

Testing Demonstrates Device Performance During Clinically Relevant Conditions. Statistically sound test plans are developed and executed to generate clinically relevant device performance information independently of the training data set. Considerations include the intended patient population, important subgroups, clinical environment and use by the Human-AI team, measurement inputs, and potential confounding factors. Users Are Provided Clear, Essential Information. Users are provided ready access to clear, contextually relevant information that is appropriate for the intended audience (such as health care providers or patients) including.

The product's intended use and indications for use, performance of the model for appropriate subgroups, characteristics of the data used to train and test the model, acceptable inputs, known limitations, user interface interpretation, and clinical workflow integration of the model. Users are also made aware of device modifications and updates from real-world performance monitoring, the basis for decision-making when available, and a means to communicate product concerns to the developer. Deployed Models Are Monitored for Performance and Re-training Risks Are Managed. Deployed models have the capability to be monitored in "real world" use with a focus on maintained or improved safety and performance. Additionally, when models are periodically or continually trained after deployment, there are appropriate controls in place to manage risks of overfitting, unintended bias, or degradation of the model (for example, dataset drift) that may impact the safety and performance of the model as it is used by the Human-AI team.Date and time.

October 27, 2021, 11:00am - 5:00 pm EDTLocation. Via ZoomChair. Lorraine Greaves (Chair), Louise Pilote (Vice-chair)Secretariat. Jenna Griffiths, Laetitia Guillemette, Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD)Participants. SAC-HPW members, Health Canada employees, guest presenter 11:00-11:05Welcome and opening remarksChief Medical Advisor, Health Canada and Senior Medical Advisor for Health Products and Food Branch 11:05-11:15Chair's address, review of agenda, introduction of members, review of affiliations and interests (A&I)Chair 11:15-11:25Session #1.

Actions in response to past SAC-HPW recommendations to the Medical Devices DirectorateDirector General, Medical Devices Directorate 11:25-11:35Session #1. Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 11:35-11:45Session #2. Actions in response to past SAC-HPW recommendations to Drug DirectoratesManager, Office of Pediatrics and Patient Involvement 11:45-11:55Session #2. Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 11:55-12:30Break 12:30-1:00Session #3. Update on medical devices foresight exerciseAssociate Director, Medical Devices Directorate 1:00-1:30Session #3.

Committee questions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 1:30-2:00Session #4. Overview of US-FDA Office of Women's HealthAssociate Commissioner of Women's Health, United States Food and Drug Administration 2:00-2:30Session #4. Questions and discussionsHealth Canada, SAC-HPW members 2:30-2:45Break 2:45-3:15Session #5. Revisiting the Health Products and Food Branch Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus action planManager, Office of Pediatrics and Patient Involvement 3:15-4:00Session #5. Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 4:00-4:10Session #6.

Effectiveness of risk communications related to high-risk medical devicesSupervisor, Marketed Health Products Directorate 4:10-4:30Secretariat updatesSAC-HPW Secretariat 4:30-4:45Summary of recommendations and adjournment of meetingChair 4:45-5:00In-camera sessionSAC-HPW members only.

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The National Academy of Medicine, established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine. The natural, social, and behavioral sciences. And beyond.

It serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as an adviser to the nation and the international community. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors. The NAM collaborates closely with its peer academies and other divisions within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

With their election, NAM members make a commitment to volunteer their service in National Academies activities.Contacts:Dana Korsen, Director of Media RelationsStephanie Miceli, Media Relations OfficerOffice of News and Public Information202-334-2138. E-mail news@nas.eduOctober 27, 2021 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have jointly identified 10 guiding principles that can inform the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP).

These guiding principles will help promote safe, effective, and high-quality medical devices that use artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have the potential to transform health care by deriving new and important insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of health care every day. They use software algorithms to learn from real-world use and in some situations may use this information to improve the product's performance.

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The 10 guiding principles identify areas where the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), international standards organizations and other collaborative bodies could work to advance GMLP. Areas of collaboration include research, creating educational tools and resources, international harmonization, and consensus standards, which may help inform regulatory policies and regulatory guidelines. We envision these guiding principles may be used to.

Adopt good practices that have been proven in other sectors Tailor practices from other sectors so they are applicable to medical technology and the health care sector Create new practices specific for medical technology and the health care sector As the AI/ML medical device field evolves, so too must GMLP best practice and consensus standards. Strong partnerships with our international public health partners will be crucial if we are to empower stakeholders to advance responsible innovations in this area. Thus, we expect this initial collaborative work can inform our broader international engagements, including with the IMDRF.

We welcome your continued feedback through the public docket (FDA-2019-N-1185) at Regulations.gov, and we look forward to engaging with you on these efforts. The Digital Health Center of Excellence is spearheading this work for the FDA. Contact us directly at Digitalhealth@fda.hhs.gov, software@mhra.gov.uk, and mddpolicy-politiquesdim@hc-sc.gc.ca.

Guiding principles Multi-Disciplinary Expertise Is Leveraged Throughout the Total Product Life Cycle. In-depth understanding of a model's intended integration into clinical workflow, and the desired benefits and associated patient risks, can help ensure that ML-enabled medical devices are safe and effective and address clinically meaningful needs over the lifecycle of the device. Good Software Engineering and Security Practices Are Implemented.

Model design is implemented with attention to the "fundamentals". Good software engineering practices, data quality assurance, data management, and robust cybersecurity practices. These practices include methodical risk management and design process that can appropriately capture and communicate design, implementation, and risk management decisions and rationale, as well as ensure data authenticity and integrity.

Clinical Study Participants and Data Sets Are Representative of the Intended Patient Population. Data collection protocols should ensure that the relevant characteristics of the intended patient population (for example, in terms of age, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity), use, and measurement inputs are sufficiently represented in a sample of adequate size in the clinical study and training and test datasets, so that results can be reasonably generalized to the population of interest. This is important to manage any bias, promote appropriate and generalizable performance across the intended patient population, assess usability, and identify circumstances where the model may underperform.

Training Data Sets Are Independent of Test Sets. Training and test datasets are selected and maintained to be appropriately independent of one another. All potential sources of dependence, including patient, data acquisition, and site factors, are considered and addressed to assure independence.

Selected Reference Datasets Are Based Upon Best Available Methods. Accepted, best available methods for developing a reference dataset (that is, a reference standard) ensure that clinically relevant and well characterized data are collected and the limitations of the reference are understood. If available, accepted reference datasets in model development and testing that promote and demonstrate model robustness and generalizability across the intended patient population are used.

Model Design Is Tailored to the Available Data and Reflects the Intended Use of the Device. Model design is suited to the available data and supports the active mitigation of known risks, like overfitting, performance degradation, and security risks. The clinical benefits and risks related to the product are well understood, used to derive clinically meaningful performance goals for testing, and support that the product can safely and effectively achieve its intended use.

Considerations include the impact of both global and local performance and uncertainty/variability in the device inputs, outputs, intended patient populations, and clinical use conditions. Focus Is Placed on the Performance of the Human-AI Team. Where the model has a "human in the loop," human factors considerations and the human interpretability of the model outputs are addressed with emphasis on the performance of the Human-AI team, rather than just the performance of the model in isolation.

Testing Demonstrates Device Performance During Clinically Relevant Conditions. Statistically sound test plans are developed and executed to generate clinically relevant device performance information independently of the training data set. Considerations include the intended patient population, important subgroups, clinical environment and use by the Human-AI team, measurement inputs, and potential confounding factors.

Users Are Provided Clear, Essential Information. Users are provided ready access to clear, contextually relevant information that is appropriate for the intended audience (such as health care providers or patients) including. The product's intended use and indications for use, performance of the model for appropriate subgroups, characteristics of the data used to train and test the model, acceptable inputs, known limitations, user interface interpretation, and clinical workflow integration of the model.

Users are also made aware of device modifications and updates from real-world performance monitoring, the basis for decision-making when available, and a means to communicate product concerns to the developer. Deployed Models Are Monitored for Performance and Re-training Risks Are Managed. Deployed models have the capability to be monitored in "real world" use with a focus on maintained or improved safety and performance.

Additionally, when models are periodically or continually trained after deployment, there are appropriate controls in place to manage risks of overfitting, unintended bias, or degradation of the model (for example, dataset drift) that may impact the safety and performance of the model as it is used by the Human-AI team.Date and time. October 27, 2021, 11:00am - 5:00 pm EDTLocation. Via ZoomChair.

Lorraine Greaves (Chair), Louise Pilote (Vice-chair)Secretariat. Jenna Griffiths, Laetitia Guillemette, Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD)Participants. SAC-HPW members, Health Canada employees, guest presenter 11:00-11:05Welcome and opening remarksChief Medical Advisor, Health Canada and Senior Medical Advisor for Health Products and Food Branch 11:05-11:15Chair's address, review of agenda, introduction of members, review of affiliations and interests (A&I)Chair 11:15-11:25Session #1.

Actions in response to past SAC-HPW recommendations to the Medical Devices DirectorateDirector General, Medical Devices Directorate 11:25-11:35Session #1. Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 11:35-11:45Session #2. Actions in response to past SAC-HPW recommendations to Drug DirectoratesManager, Office of Pediatrics and Patient Involvement 11:45-11:55Session #2.

Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 11:55-12:30Break 12:30-1:00Session #3. Update on medical devices foresight exerciseAssociate Director, Medical Devices Directorate 1:00-1:30Session #3. Committee questions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 1:30-2:00Session #4.

Overview of US-FDA Office of Women's HealthAssociate Commissioner of Women's Health, United States Food and Drug Administration 2:00-2:30Session #4. Questions and discussionsHealth Canada, SAC-HPW members 2:30-2:45Break 2:45-3:15Session #5. Revisiting the Health Products and Food Branch Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus action planManager, Office of Pediatrics and Patient Involvement 3:15-4:00Session #5.

Committee discussions and feedbackSAC-HPW members 4:00-4:10Session #6. Effectiveness of risk communications related to high-risk medical devicesSupervisor, Marketed Health Products Directorate 4:10-4:30Secretariat updatesSAC-HPW Secretariat 4:30-4:45Summary of recommendations and adjournment of meetingChair 4:45-5:00In-camera sessionSAC-HPW members only.

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