The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the appointment of Dr. Dina Paltoo as its Assistant Director for Policy Development, effective July 9, 2018. In this role, she leads NLM's policy and legislative activities which promote access to scientific data and information, as well as health information technology.
Paltoo was previously the Director of the Division of Scientific Data Sharing Policy within the OSP. While there, she was responsible for overseeing NIH policy efforts in scientific data sharing and management, open science, and genomics and health. Prior to taking on that role, she was the Director of OSP's Genetics, Health, and Society Program.
Paltoo joined OSP from NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where she was a program director in genetics and pharmacogenetics and led activities to promote the sharing of these and other data. She has also served as a scientific advisor on the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Personalized Healthcare Initiative, was a National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Fellow.
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