NLM is excited to announce that long-time leader and innovator, Stephen Sherry, PhD, is now our Acting Director. Dr. Sherry has 25 years of experience performing research, education, and data resource management involving human variation, genetics, and genomics. His tenure follows that of Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, who retired from federal service on September 30 after seven years of service as our director.
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Most recently, he served as Director of NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Associate Director for Scientific Data Resources. In his role as the Director of NCBI, he implemented his vision of customer engagement and modular, interoperable, and cloud-based approaches to the technical platforms for NLM’s products and services, as well as the One NLM concept. He was recognized for his inventiveness in leveraging research for the COVID-19 public health emergency response. Dr. Sherry spearheaded key innovations at NLM, including the ClincalTrials.gov modernization effort and the development of the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource, and ensured public input and technical innovation while they were developed. He positioned NCBI as a strong collaborative force across NIH and in support of major NLM projects, including the NIH Preprint Pilot for rapid access to NIH-funded research and the MEDLINE 2022 Initiative, which resulted in entirely automated indexing of the biomedical literature available through NLM’s PubMed and PubMed Central.
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Dr. Sherry earned his PhD in Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University in 1996 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Louisiana State University Medical Center prior to joining NLM in 1998.
Kim Pruitt, Ph.D., has been named Acting Director for the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)…As Dr. Pruitt steps into this new role at NLM, Valerie Schneider, Ph.D., has been selected to assume the role of Acting Chief of the Information Engineering Branch (IEB).
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
