July 2, 2001
Dr. Daniel Masys
Appointed To Institute of
Medicine’s Board on Health Sciences Policy As a component of the National Academy of Sciences, the IOM
issues public reports and advises the federal government on issues of medical
care, research and education. The Board on Health Sciences Policy is especially interested in emerging fields of
scientific research in the health sciences, the relationship between science and
regulatory decision making, the education of health and research professionals
and the general public, workforce adequacy, and biomedical ethics. Masys brings to the Board his expertise in bioinformatics,
which makes vast amounts of complex medical knowledge more accessible with the
aid of computers. A former chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank of the NIH National Cancer
Institute, Masys has also served as an advisor to the President’s Office of
Science and Technology Policy in the area of advanced computing and National
Information Structure. Among the 17 members of the IOM Board on Health Sciences
Policy are representatives from UC San Francisco, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, the
National Health Council, Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Research!America, and the Universities of
Illinois, Pittsburgh, Michigan, Virginia and New Mexico. # # # Media Conact: Sue Pondrom UCSD Health Sciences Communications HealthBeat: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/
Daniel Masys, M.D., UCSD associate clinical professor of
medicine and director of Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed to the
national Board on Health Sciences Policy of the prestigious Institute of
Medicine (IOM).
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