National Library of Medicine Deputy Director Betsy L. Humphreys has been awarded the highest honor in the field of biomedical informatics. The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the honorific college of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), presented Ms. Humphreys with the 2009 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, named after a pioneer in…
Isaac (Zak) S. Kohane, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, has received the 2009 Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). This annual honor recognizes an individual who has made an outstandingtechnological, research, or educational contribution in biomedical and health informatics, the field which acquires, stores, and…
A team of international researchers from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Hanover Medical School, in Germany, University College London, and others, has discovered genetic mutations that cause a rare and severe form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in young children. The discovery allowed doctors to successfully treat a patient with a bone marrow…
A new handbook recognizes the unique nature of providing health care in rural communities. The Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School released the Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide for Professionals. The Handbook is the result of a three-year project funded by the National Library of Medicine. The Handbook…
Dee Clarkin was appointed head, Collection Access Section (CAS), Public Services Division, in November 2009. The Collection Access Section manages a document delivery network of over 3,000 biomedical libraries in the US, Canada and abroad, controlling distribution of 1.8 million interlibrary loan requests annually. The Section also manages DOCLINE, an automated request routing and referral system.…
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