I was greatly saddened to hear of the death of former National Library of Medicine Director Dr. Donald Lindberg. Don was a genuine visionary and superb strategic leader who was responsible for enabling many of the key advances in both bio-informatics and public access to biomedical and health information as we know them today.

The announcement from the National Library of Medicine is here

Mourning the loss of former NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.

He was also a great friend to and supporter of CNI. In 2014 it was my privilege to be able to present Dr. Lindberg with the Paul Evan Peters award at our Spring meeting.

The award announcement can be found here

Donald Lindberg to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award at Spring CNI Meeting, St. Louis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award Washington, DC – February 3, 2014 – The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Associa…

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI