The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected Christian Dameff, MD, MS, as the 2025-2027 NAM American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Emergency Medicine Fellow.
Dr. Dameff is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Computer Science and the health system’s Medical Director of Cybersecurity at the University of California, San Diego. His research spans health care cybersecurity, clinical informatics, and Emergency Medicine, with a focus on how cyberattacks such as ransomware affect patient safety and care quality. Dr. Dameff also co-founded and co-directs the University of California San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity.
“We congratulate Dr. Dameff on his selection as the newest NAM ABEM Fellow,” shared ABEM President James D. Thomas, MD. “The ABEM Board of Directors is eager to follow Dr. Dameff’s research and the valuable contributions he will bring to our specialty.”
The overall purpose of the NAM ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship is to provide talented, early career, health science scholars in Emergency Medicine the opportunity to participate in evidence-based health care studies that improve patient care outcomes in domestic and global health care systems. During his two-year fellowship, Dr. Dameff will collaborate with eminent researchers, policy experts, and clinicians from across the country; and will help facilitate initiatives convened by the National Academies to provide nonpartisan, evidence-based guidance to national, state, and local policymakers, academic leaders, health care administrators, and the public.
Read more about the NAM ABEM Emergency Medicine Fellowship here.
