Dr. Dale Birkle-Dreer, chief of the Office of Scientific Review for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, passed away at home on Mar. 12 after a brief illness.

Dr. Maribeth Champoux has been named new chief of the biobehavioral and behavioral processes integrated review group at the Center for Scientific Review.

After living with kidney cancer for 4½ years, Dr. Mark F. Gourley, former director of the NIAMS Rheumatology Fellowship and Training Branch, died on Sept. 17. He was 58 years old.

NIAMS director Dr. Stephen Katz recently presented on Capitol Hill at the invitation of the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation.

After 18 years at NIH, Keith Brosky, who joined the NCI Laboratory of Pathology in 1998 as a cytotechnologist, is hanging up his lab coat.

NIA director Dr. Richard Hodes was recently honored with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Center for Scientific Review has named Dr. Mark Lindner as new director of its Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation.

Following 22 years of dedicated service to the intramural research program at NIH, Dr. Andrew J. Griffith will step down in late spring to take an academic leadership role at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

Dr. Arthur A. Campbell passed away Mar. 10 at his home. He served as deputy director of NICHD’s Center for Population Research from the time of its creation in 1968 to his retirement in 1994.

Darla Hayes has been named associate director for management for the Office of the Director, NIH.