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2000 Budget Announced

Long Range Plan Meeting

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Rodbell Archive Added To Profiles In Science

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Dr. Bond Named Board Chair

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Dr. Cassedy Logs 50 Years

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Dr. James (Jim) Cassedy, a historian with NLM's History of Medicine Division (HMD), received his AB in American Literature from Middlebury College and his PhD in American Civilization from Brown University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1946, then spent six years with the U.S. Information Agency, as Director of Cultural Centers in Haiti, Burma, and Pakistan. For four years, he was Executive Secretary of the NIH Division of Research Grants, History of the Life Sciences Study Section, and for two years, he was Deputy Chief of the NIH European Office in Paris. In 1968, Jim came to the NLM, where he has enjoyed an extraordinarily productive career as a scholar, bibliographer, mentor, and friend of historians of medicine throughout the country and around the world.

At NLM, Dr. Cassedy has been editor and indexer of the Bibliography of the History of Medicine and of HISTLINE. He also organizes the History of Medicine Seminar series and continues a very active professional life. He has served as President of the American Association for the History of Medicine (1982-84) and received the NLM Regents Award in 1984. In addition to producing numerous articles and reviews, Jim has published several books that have become classics in the field, including Demography in Early America (1969), American Medicine and Statistical Thinking (1984), Medicine and American Growth (1986), and Medicine in America (1991). Jim is currently finishing a new book entitled, Essays on John Shaw Billings, NLM, and Public Health.

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