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IGM to be Retired

Human Genome Mapped

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Do the Dead Tell Tales After All?

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RML Contracts Announced

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Native American Youth Visit NLM

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NLM Pioneer Dave McCarn Dies

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Merlyn Rodrigues, MD, PhD, serves as Scientific Review Administrator with responsibility for the Biomedical Library Review Committee and all other review functions of NLM. Dr. Rodrigues is a pathologist with extensive experience at the National Eye Institute at NIH, the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, Wills Eye Hospital and other organizations. Her extensive curriculum vitae includes numerous publications, an award as Fulbright Scholar, and extended editorial board service for the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Dr. Rodrigues comes to NLM from the Food and Drug Administration.

Valerie Florance, MLS, PhD, serves as a program officer with responsibility for a portfolio of grants including Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS), other health science library resource grants, and several categories of informatics research grants. Dr. Florance has served as librarian at the University of Utah, Johns Hopkins, and at the University of Rochester, where she was director of the health science library. Prior to joining NLM, she was principal investigator at the Association of American Medical Colleges for a project considering the past and future of IAIMS.

Carol Bean, PhD, is a Special Expert, with responsibility for a portfolio of grants focusing on informatics research and training. Dr. Bean also has master's degrees in medical informatics (NLM's program at Columbia University), information science, and epidemiology and biostatistics. She has worked at NLM previously as an Information Scientist in the Cognitive Science Branch of the Lister Hill Center. Prior to joining NLM, Dr. Bean was at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee.