Three Join NLM Board of Regents

NLM Acting Director Betsy Humphreys (third from l) welcomes new board of regents members (from l) Dr. Alessandro Acquisti, Dr. Daniel Masys and Dr. Jill Taylor.

The National Library of Medicine board of regents welcomed three new members at its recent meeting. The new members are:

Dr. Alessandro Acquisti, professor of information systems and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and member of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. His research focuses on the economics of privacy.

Dr. Daniel Masys, affiliate professor of biomedical and health informatics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He previously chaired the department of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Jill Taylor, director of the Wadsworth Center, New York State department of health. Taylor, whose background is in public health research, is responsible for the day-to-day functioning of the Biggs Laboratory in Albany, N.Y.