The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the appointment of Jerry Sheehan as the new NLM Deputy Director, effective July 31, 2017. The appointment was announced by Library Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD. The world's largest biomedical library, NLM serves as a national and international resource of biomedical and genomic data for scientists, health professionals, academia, and the public.
During his more than 10 years as the Assistant Director for Policy Development at NLM, Sheehan has made major contributions to the development and implementation of NIH, HHS, and US government-wide policy related to open science, public access to government-funded information, clinical trials registration, and electronic health records. He has built effective relationships with key NLM partners, including health sciences librarians and informatics researchers. From September 2015 to January 2017, Sheehan was detailed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Assistant Director for Scientific Data and Information, where he worked to develop public access policies at all Federal science agencies.
In his role as NLM Deputy Director, Sheehan will share responsibility with the Director for overall program development, program evaluation, policy formulation, direction and coordination of all Library activities. In addition, he will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Library and, in the absence of the Director, will assume full responsibility for all functions performed by the National Library of Medicine.
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