Newton Named Director of NIEHS Policy, Planning, and Evaluation
Dr. Sheila A. Newton has been named director of the Office of
Policy, Planning and Evaluation, NIEHS. She joined the institute
in 1992 as a health scientist administrator and was responsible for
representing NIEHS on numerous NIH-wide and government-wide
committees, especially relating to asthma, breast and other
cancers, and disease prevention. For the past year and a half, she
has been detailed to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, serving as senior advisor for environmental and
occupational health to the deputy assistant secretary for health.
Nelson joins NLM
Dr. Stuart J. Nelson
has joined the National Library of Medicine
as head of the medical subject headings section. MeSH is the
library's controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing
articles for MEDLINE (from which the publication Index Medicus
is derived) and other NLM databases. Formerly associate
professor of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, Nelson
brings many years of experience with medical informatics
research and, as a consultant, has also participated in NLM's
Unified Medical Language System project.
Director Gains New Advisors
The 15-member advisory committee to the NIH director recently gained 11 new members. The ACD meets twice yearly to advise the director on a wide variety of topics.
The new members are:
Dr. Ezra C. Davidson, Jr.
professor and chairman, department of obstetrics and gynecology,
King/Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles
Rebecca S. Eisenberg,
professor of law, University of Michigan
Dr. Ruby P. Hearn,
senior vice president,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Dr. Jane E. Henney,
vice president for health sciences,
University of New Mexico
Dr. Susan B. Horwitz,
professor, department of molecular pharmacology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Eric R. Kandel,
professor, division of neurobiology and behavior,
Columbia University
Dr. Marc W. Kirschner,
professor and chair, department of cell biology,
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Eric S. Lander,
professor, department of biology, MIT
Dr. Jane A. Menken,
UPS Foundation professor in the social sciences,
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera,
professor, department of biology,
University of Utah College of Science
Dr. Larry L. Smarr,
director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois.
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