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Donald Allen Bror Lindberg (September 21, 1933 – August 17, 2019) was the Director of the United States National Library of Medicine from 1984 until his retirement in 2015. He was known for his work in medical computing, especially the development of PubMed. He won the 1997 Morris F. Collen Award from the American College of Medical Informatics.




Biography


Lindberg grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Poly Prep Country Day School. He went on to graduate from Amherst College in applied mathematics magna cum laude in 1954. He received his M.D. from Columbia University in 1958. Between 1958 and 1960, he completed an internship and residency in pathology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
In 1960 he joined the University of Missouri becoming a faculty member at the University of Missouri School of Medicine where he developed a distinguished career, pioneering health care applications of computer technology and informatics for medicine.
He played a valuable role in establishing the American Medical Informatics Association and served as founding president.
The NIH's in memoriam letter recognized Dr. Lindberg for his "notable global contributions to information and computer science activities for information used in medical diagnosis, artificial intelligence, and educational programs, in the process fundamentally changing the way biomedical information is collected, shared, and analyzed. He will be remembered for his outstanding leadership, his vision and passion for transforming access to medical information, and as a civil servant who was committed to excellence, transparency, integrity, and public trust."
Lindberg died on August 17, 2019.




Further reading


Kohane, Isaac; Berg, Jeremy M. (4 October 2019). "Donald A. B. Lindberg (1933–2019)". Science. 366 (6461): 37. Bibcode:2019Sci...366...37K. doi:10.1126/science.aaz3644. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 31604294. S2CID 203720005.




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External links


"NIH Director & NLM Director "Mourning the loss of former NLM Director, Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg". NIH Director & NLM Director. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
"Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine, to present the Reed M. Gardner Lecture: Unsolved Problems in Medical Informatics". Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah - School of Medicine - Salt Lake City, Utah. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
"Innovation At NIH: Donald Lindberg, Senior Statesman For Medicine And Computers". Breaking Government. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
"Letter from Donald A. B. Lindberg to William D. Mayer (April 1, 1991)". Retrieved 28 May 2013.
"Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship - ScholarshipsCanada.com". Retrieved 28 May 2013.
"Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D." College of Science, George Mason University. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
Daniel R Masys. "Presentation of the Morris F. Collen Award to Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD". J Am Med Inform Assoc. Retrieved 28 May 2013.

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