Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA.
Yearb Med Inform. 2020 Aug;29(1):253-258. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1701972. Epub 2020 Apr 17.
As Director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) for 30 years, Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg was instrumental in bringing biomedical research and healthcare worldwide into the age of genomic and translational medicine through the informatics systems developed by the NLM. Lindberg opened free access and worldwide public dissemination of all the NLM's biomedical literature and databases, thus helping transform not only biomedical research like the Human Genome Project and its successors, but also the practices of medicine and healthcare internationally. Guiding, leading, and teaching-by-example at national, regional, and global levels of biomedical and healthcare informatics, Lindberg helped coalesce a dynamic discipline that provides a foundation for the human understanding which promotes the future health of our world.
To provide historical insight into the scientific, technological, and practical clinical accomplishments of Donald Lindberg, and to describe how this led to contributions in the worldwide interdisciplinary evolution of informatics, and its impact on the biosciences and practices of medicine, nursing, and other healthcare-related disciplines.
Review and comment on the publications, scientific contributions, and leadership of Donald Lindberg in the evolution of biomedical and health informatics which anticipate the vision, scholarship, research in the field, and represent the deeply ethical humanism he exhibited throughout his life. These were essential in producing the informatics systems, such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, and ClinicalTrials.gov, which, together with NLM training programs and conferences, made possible the interactions among researchers and practitioners leading to the past quarter-century of rapid and dramatic advances in biomedical scientific inquiry and clinical discoveries, openly shared across the globe.
Dr. Lindberg was a uniquely talented physician and pioneering researcher in biomedical and health informatics. As the main leader in developing and funding innovative informatics research for more than 30 years as Director of the National Library of Medicine, he helped bring together the most creative interdisciplinary researchers to bridge the worlds of biomedical research, education, and clinical practice. Lindberg's emphasis on open-access to the biomedical literature through publicly shared computer-mediated methods of search and inquiry are seen as an example of ethical scientific openness.
作为美国国家医学图书馆（NLM）主任长达 30 年，唐纳德·A·B·林德伯格博士通过 NLM 开发的信息系统，将全球生物医学研究和医疗保健带入了基因组学和转化医学时代，为此做出了重要贡献。林德伯格博士开放了 NLM 所有生物医学文献和数据库的免费访问和全球公共传播，从而不仅帮助改变了人类基因组计划及其后续计划等生物医学研究，还改变了国际医疗实践。林德伯格博士在国家、地区和全球生物医学和医疗信息学层面进行指导、领导和以身作则的教学，帮助凝聚了一个充满活力的学科，为人类理解提供了基础，促进了我们世界的未来健康。
提供对唐纳德·林德伯格博士的科学、技术和临床实践成就的历史洞察，并描述这如何导致信息学的全球跨学科发展中的贡献，以及其对生物科学和医学、护理和其他医疗保健相关学科实践的影响。
回顾和评论唐纳德·林德伯格博士在生物医学和健康信息学发展中的出版物、科学贡献和领导地位，这些反映了他的远见、学术成就、该领域的研究，并代表了他一生所展现的深刻的人文主义。这些对于生产信息系统至关重要，例如统一医学语言系统（UMLS）、MEDLINE、PubMed、PubMed Central 和 ClinicalTrials.gov，这些系统与 NLM 培训计划和会议一起，使得研究人员和从业者之间的互动成为可能，从而在过去四分之一个世纪中推动了生物医学科学研究和临床发现的快速和显著进展，并在全球范围内公开共享。
林德伯格博士是一位极具天赋的医生和生物医学与健康信息学的先驱研究人员。作为国家医学图书馆主任，他在 30 多年的时间里一直领导并资助创新信息学研究，帮助将最具创造力的跨学科研究人员聚集在一起，弥合生物医学研究、教育和临床实践之间的鸿沟。林德伯格博士强调通过公共共享的计算机中介搜索和查询方法实现生物医学文献的开放获取，这被视为伦理科学开放的典范。
