NLM Trains Future Leaders in Public Health Informatics with RWJ Grant

The National Library of Medicine began administering a $3.68 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop tomorrow’s leaders in public health informatics at four universities — Columbia, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University of Utah and the University of Washington. Students at the sites will receive training in basic information…

AMIA Honors NLM Director with Creation of Lindberg Award

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) announces the creation of the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics. The award will recognize an individual at any stage of a career for a specific technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics. National Library of Medicine Director Dr. Lindberg’s continuous commitment to the field has dramatically…