Familiar Faces in New Positions, Promotions at NLM
Kathy Cravedi has been promoted to Director of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL), a position vacated by Robert Mehnert this past June after more than 40 years of public service. Ms. Cravedi has served as the Deputy Director of OCPL since 1996 and as NLM’s first Public Liaison Officer. She brings a wonderful range of communications experience to her new position.
From 1975 to 1994, Ms. Cravedi worked on health care policy on Capitol Hill. As the Staff Director for the House Select Committee on Aging’s Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care, she assisted the Chairman in developing legislation that resulted in the establishment of the National Institute on Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and the NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information. She is a graduate of the University of Montana and received her Masters of Science degree from American University.
Dianne Babski will be the new Head of MEDLARS Management Section. Dianne has been part of MMS since 2005 where she has been involved in nearly all aspects of MMS work. In addition to being part of the PubMed customer service and training team, Dianne has been the back coordinator for the annual year end processing work. She has played a key role in the OLDMEDLINE keyword conversion process that has been mapping OLDMEDLINE keywords to current MeSH vocabulary. She has also been heavily involved in the UMLS mapping file generation and review process; the mapping file is used by PubMed and the Gateway for searching purposes.
Dianne has also developed an MS Access database system for the NLM data licensing program, and has been actively involved in the development of the online UMLS data licensing system. Prior to working at NLM, Dianne worked at NIAID as part of the Scientific Review program, providing detailed presentations and overviews of new peer review tools and outside database resources to staff and senior management. Dianne will begin her new position on Feb. 3, 2008.
