A U medical administrator with enough background to fill a book is on her way to a national library.
Dr. Joyce Mitchell received a national appointment to the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. The appointment came last August for Mitchell, a U professor and chair of the department of biomedical informatics, who will serve on the Board of Regents for the next four years.
“Advisers are selected for their broad background to help the government,” Mitchell said. I’ve got the right background.”
Mitchell’s background covers many disciplines, and she has experience in serving on a national level. She is a certified medical geneticist and has been trained in medical informatics, according to the U department of biomedical informatics website. She has also served as director of the Medical Informatics Group, as the chief information officer for the University of Missouri Health Care, and as the associate dean of Information Technology for the U School of Medicine.
Mitchell will continue to serve in her position as chair of biomedical informatics, a position she has held since 2005, as the Board of Regents only meets three times a year and acts as the governing body for the NLM, Mitchell said. The NLM Board of Regents advises the national government and its own organization. The board consists of 10 appointed officials, in addition to the nine ex officio members. Mitchell will have a chance to work closely with the surgeon general and the director of the Library of Congress, both of whom also serve on the Board of Regents.
The NLM is the lead agency on standard health care procedures. It has the repository of the entire human genetic code information. It also contains a set of systems in place to help guide the national government in new research discoveries and various natural disaster situations, such as toxic spills and hurricanes, Mitchell said.
“It is one of three national libraries,” Mitchell said. “It is the premier library in the world for biomedical health care public records.”
Joyce Mitchell