Dr. Martin Goldrosen, director of the Division of Extramural Activities at NCCIH, recently retired. He planned and led the activities of scientific reviewers and other NCCIH staff to ensure the highest quality, objectivity and accountability in the center’s peer review process.

“The first child of the first child”—that’s how Dr. Raya Mandler describes her childhood on Ramat Rachel, a 95-year-old kibbutz near Jerusalem, Israel. Mandler transferred her love of farming and closeness to animals and plants on the kibbutz to a biological scientific career that led her to NIH.

Dr. Partap Khalsa has been named director of the Division of Extramural Activities at NCCIH. He began his NIH career in 2006 as a program director in NCCIH’s Division of Extramural Research, in which he administered the center’s portfolio related to manual (hands-on) therapies.

Four NIH scientists are among the 100 newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine, which announced the honor during its annual meeting.

Dr. Harvey Klein, chief of the Clinical Center’s department of transfusion medicine (DTM) for the past 36 years and a stalwart of hematology research at NIH for 46 years, retired on Sept. 30.

NINR recently announced the appointment of four new members to its National Advisory Council for Nursing Research.

Dr. Eric Wawrousek, director of the National Eye Institute Genetic Engineering Core, retired Aug. 31 after more than 31 years at NEI.

Catherine B. McClave retired recently after 44 years of government service.

“I’ve always been a fly person,” said Dr. Susan Haynes on the eve of her retirement from NIGMS.

Valerie Sanders has been named budget officer at the Center for Scientific Review. She had previously served as a budget analyst at CSR.