Donald A. B. Lindberg

Donald Allen Bror Lindberg[1] (September 21, 1933 – August 17, 2019) was the Director of the United States National Library of Medicine from 1984 until his retirement in 2015.[2] He was known for his work in medical computing[3], especially the development of PubMed. He won the 1997 Morris F. Collen Award from the American College of Medical Informatics.[4][5]

Donald A. B. Lindberg
Lindberg answering questions at the PDQ Press Conference 1985
Born
Donald Allen Bror Lindberg

(1933-09-21)September 21, 1933
New York City, U.S.
DiedAugust 17, 2019(2019-08-17) (aged 85)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationPoly Prep Country Day School
Alma materAmherst College
Columbia University
Scientific career
Fieldsmedical computing
InstitutionsUnited States National Library of Medicine

Biography

Lindberg grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Poly Prep Country Day School. He graduated from Amherst College in applied mathematics magna cum laude in 1954. He received his M.D. from Columbia University in 1958. Following an internship and residency in pathology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, in 1960 he became a faculty member at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.[5] He served as the first President of the American Medical Informatics Association.[6]

Lindberg died August 17, 2019 after a fall.[7][8]

Further reading
  • Kohane, Isaac; Berg, Jeremy M. (4 October 2019). "Donald A. B. Lindberg (1933–2019)". Science. 366 (6461): 37. doi:10.1126/science.aaz3644. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 31604294.
gollark: `assert.h`> Contains the assert macro, used to assist with detecting logical errors and other types of bugs in debugging versions of a program. My version of `assert` will just be a signal to the compiler that the value being `false` would be undefined behavior, for performance.
gollark: Hold on, let me see what else libc should contain.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: I should overhaul osmarksmalloc to support them!
gollark: Er, another advantage: you get alignment automatically sometimes due to truncation!

References
  1. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: National Institutes of Health. 1993. ISBN 9780160410536.
  2. "Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D." College of Science, George Mason University. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  3. "Innovation At NIH: Donald Lindberg, Senior Statesman For Medicine And Computers". Breaking Government. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, FACMI | AMIA
  5. "Presentation of the Morris F. Collen Award to Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 5 (2). 1998. pp. 214–216. doi:10.1136/jamia.1995.0050214.
  6. Alexa T. McCray, Reinhold Haux, Jan H. van Bemmel (2019). "Donald A. B. Lindberg (1933–2019)". Methods of Information in Medicine. 58 (04/05). pp. 107-108}.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  7. "Donald A. B. Lindberg". dignitymemorial.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
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