The North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NC IOM) is a quasi-state agency charged with building consensus on critical matters of health policy facing North Carolina and advising on health matters.
It is administratively housed in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Davis was a notable physician at Duke University and went on to become the president of both the North Carolina Medical Society and the AMA.
Chair of the Board of Directors is William Atkinson, President and CEO of WakeMed Health and Hospitals.
Since 2002, the NC IOM has been a co-publisher (with The Duke Endowment) of the North Carolina Medical Journal.