The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has named 10 individuals as 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, including Affective Computing alum and assistant professor of computer science at the Goergen Institute for Data Science, University of Rochester, Ehsan Hoque. 

"These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from emergency medicine and health economics to biomedical engineering and research and public health policy. The scholars are an essential part of a major NAM initiative, the Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program, which provides a platform for a new generation of leaders to collaborate with the NAM and its members across fields of expertise to advance science, combat persistent challenges in health and medicine, and spark transformative change to improve health for all."