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National Library of Medicine Divisions


donald lindberg, MD
betsy humphreys
Milton Corn, MD
Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD
Director
Betsy Humphreys
Deputy Director
Milton Corn, MD
Deputy Director for
Research and Education



The NLM has seven major divisions

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Mr. Sheldon Kotzin

Library Operations

Acquires, organizes, and preserves NLM's comprehensive archival collection of biomedical literature; produces authoritative indexing and cataloging records; builds and distributes bibliographic, directory, and full-text databases; reference service, and research assistance. Coordinates the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Mr. Sheldon Kotzin
Clem McDonald, MD

LHNCBC
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications

Conducts and supports research and development in the dissemination of high quality imagery, medical language processing, multimedia visualization, knowledge management, data mining, and machine-assisted indexing.

Clem McDonald, MD
David Lipman, MD

NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information

Collects, organizes, stores, and disseminates molecular biology, genetic information and analysis tools; and coordinates these efforts with researchers and scientists worldwide.

David Lipman, MD
Steve Phillips, MD

SIS
Specialized Information Services

Develops and maintains databases on adverse drug reactions, chemical structures, and has a large outreach program with minorities, including seminars, exhibits and cooperative ventures.

Steve Phillips, MD
Milton Corn, MD

OHIPD
Office of Health Information Programs Development

Responsible for three major functions: planning, developing and evaluating a nationwide NLM outreach and consumer health; programs to improve access to NLM information services among minority, rural, and under-served populations; conducting NLM's international programs which focus on battling Malaria and HIV/Aids in Africa.

Milton Corn, MD
Acting
Ivor D'Souza

OCCS
Office of Computer and Communications Systems

The computer networking backbone of the National Library of Medicine. The center provides professional programming services and computational and data processing to meet NLM program needs and support.

Ivor D'Souza
Acting
Valerie Florance, PhD

The Extramural Grants Program

Provides grants, contracts and fellowships to organizations and individuals interested in applying computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.

Valerie Florance, PhD
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