Donald Lindberg: visionary leader in medical informatics and director of the US National Library of Medicine

Autor:	Penny Warren
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	White (horse) Health professionals medicine.diagnostic_test National library business.industry Biomedical information Library science Computed tomography General Medicine Mathematical formula Health informatics medicine Sociology business
Zdroj:	BMJ. :l5480
ISSN:	1756-1833 0959-8138
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.l5480
Popis:	Photo credit: US National Library of Medicine In a 2014 lecture, Donald Lindberg gave an example of the value of medical informatics. He described how Nobel prize winner Allan Cormack in 1963 had to calculate a mathematical formula in computed tomography scanning from first principles, even though it had been worked out in 1917. Lindberg said, “Today we have somewhere to look. This guy didn’t.” Lindberg was the director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) for more than three decades and devoted his life to making programs that changed the way biomedical information could be accessed, shared, and analysed by scientists, health professionals, and the general public. He was the founding director of both the White House High Performance Computing and Communications Program and the American Medical Informatics Association, and was regarded as the pre-eminent leader in medical informatics. Lindberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Swedish descent. He attended the Poly Prep Country Day School and Amherst College in Massachusetts, …
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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