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National Library of Medicine Divisions
The NLM has seven major divisions - Library Operations (LO), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), Specialized Information Services (SIS), Office of Health Information Programs Development (OHIPD), Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS), and the Extramural Grants Program.
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Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD,
Director
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Betsy Humphreys,
Deputy Director
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Donald King, MD,
Director, Research and Education
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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.
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Clem McDonald, MD |
LHNCBC
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. |
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David Lipman, MD |
NCBI
Collects, organizes, stores, and disseminates molecular biology, genetic information and analysis tools; and coordinates these efforts with researchers and scientists worldwide. |
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Marti Szczur - Acting |
SIS
Develops and maintains databases on adverse drug reactions, chemical structures, and has a large outreach program with minorities, including seminars, exhibits and cooperative ventures. |
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Elliot Siegel, Ph.D. |
OHIPD
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. |
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Simon Liu, Ph.D. |
OCCS
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. |
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Milton Corn, MD |
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. |
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