August 11, 2025
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE, as the Norman F. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Fellow for its class of 2025 NAM Fellowships.
Dr. Hamm is an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She also serves as Co-Director of Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Training (AMETHIST@Penn), a program focused on advancing maternal health equity through evidence-based practices, and Chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She is board-certified in OB-GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine by ABOG.
The Gant/ABOG Fellowship honors the legacy of Norman F. Gant, MD, a former ABOG Executive Director and a member of the NAM. Supported through an endowment from Dr. Gant and ABOG, the fellowship is part of the NAM Fellowships for Health Science Scholars program and is designed to empower early-career professionals in obstetrics and gynecology to engage in health and medicine policy work at the National Academies.
“I am truly honored to have been selected as a NAM Fellow and to be named among the amazing fellows who were selected before me,” Dr. Hamm said. “After spending my clinical and research career focused on the intersection of implementation science and maternal health, I realized that while we can improve practices locally, lasting change requires dissemination. I pursued this fellowship to become a champion of maternal health implementation at the policy level.”
Dr. Hamm is one of six health professionals chosen for this year’s fellowship cohort. Fellows were selected based on their professional qualifications, reputations, and accomplishments, as well as the relevance of their expertise to the work of NAM and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Over a two-year term, fellows remain in their academic or research roles while contributing part-time to expert committees and policy initiatives. Each fellow also receives a flexible research grant to support their professional development.
“Through the NAM Gant/ABOG Fellowship, I will be given the opportunity to see how policy around medicine is shaped,” Dr. Hamm said. “I will be able to learn from those leading these endeavors how to utilize national platforms for change, and I will begin to be able to push for the types of policy changes that will allow our pregnant patients to receive the care they deserve.”
Learn more about the Gant/ABOG Fellowship here and view the full list of 2025 NAM Fellows here.
