When Dr. Frederick “Skip” M. Burkle, Jr. delivered the 2012 Leiter Lecture he started with an apology. “It’s not that uplifting,” he said of the topic of his talk, “but it is all quite accurate.” Dr. Burkle addressed challenging public health issues, and the potential for enhanced information management, in a talk titled “Future Humanitarian Crises: Challenges to…
Lucy Ozarin, MD, MPH, has spent much of her life devoted to books, science, and helping others, so it was no surprise when one day in 2004 she asked to volunteer at the National Library of Medicine in the History of Medicine Division (HMD). At the time, she was only 90. Still spry and now…
Joyce A. Mitchell, PhD, is the new chair of the NLM Board of Regents. She joined the Board in 2009 and began her one-year term as chair in August 2012. Dr. Mitchell’s expertise is in biomedical informatics and genetics. She is professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah.…
Sit down with Dr. Deanna Church, a staff scientist with NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, and you immediately feel at ease. In her office on the fifth floor of NIH’s Natcher Building, she offers a direct gaze and a friendly handshake. She’s wearing jeans and sitting, surprisingly comfortably, on a large blue exercise ball.…
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