After 20 years of federal service, Dr. Carmen Brewer, chief research audiologist in the audiology unit at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), retired on Oct. 27.
Dr. Richard Youle, a senior investigator in the biochemistry section of NINDS’s Surgical Neurology Branch (SNB), was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Cendrine Robinson has been selected as NIDCD’s first chief diversity officer. She joins NIDCD from the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she served as a scientific program officer and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) chair.
Israel L. Burch, acting fire chief of the NIH Fire Department, died on July 19 after battling melanoma that had been diagnosed in April. He was 49 years old.
After 36 years of federal service—34 with NIH—Janice Cordell, a nurse consultant and clinical research program manager in NINDS’s Division of Clinical Research (DCR), retired on July 30.