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Jerry Sheehan is the Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine, where he is responsible for issues related to scientific, technical and medical data and information. He has contributed to the formulation and implementation of policies related to clinical trials registration and results submission, genome-wide association studies, the NIH Data Sharing Policy, and the NIH Public Access Policy. In addition, Mr. Sheehan manages the trans-NIH Biomedical Informatics Coordinating Committee and serves as chair of its Common Data Elements Working Group. He is currently the Deputy Chair of CENDI (the organization of federal science, technology, and medical information managers), vice president of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, chair of the OECD Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy, and served as vice chair of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data in 2011-2012. Mr. Sheehan holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Topic: National Library of Medicine on the CDE Portal Making the Most of Common Data Elements: A Trans-NIH Perspective

Speaker: Jerry Sheehan, Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine

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