Biography:
Dr. Lawrence Kingsland is Assistant Director for Applied Informatics at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). He came to NLM in 1984 and has been Chief of the Computer Science Branch at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications since 1987.
Dr. Kingsland has been a researcher in Medical Informatics for more than 35 years, concentrating on issues in medical artificial intelligence. His group's projects have included the NLM Gateway and Internet Grateful Med, two of NLM's systems for assisted Internet-based biomedical information retrieval; the earlier Coach Expert Search Refinement System for users of NLM's Grateful Med front end software; the Coach Metathesaurus Browser for users of the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus; AI/RHEUM, the knowledge-based consultant system in rheumatology that pioneered the use of the criteria table form of knowledge representation in medical expert systems; and the CTX multimedia expert system shell. Kingsland has authored or co-authored more than 80 manuscripts, book chapters, abstracts and short papers and has made hundreds of invited presentations in his field.
Dr. Kingsland has a specific interest in presenting and explaining complex systems to persons who may be specialists in other fields. With colleagues at the Lister Hill Center, he helped produce a series of videotapes and several interactive videodisc-based exhibits on medical artificial intelligence. One such exhibit was a component of a much larger exhibition called "The Age of Intelligent Machines" which opened at the Museum of Science in Boston, then went on a three year tour to other major museums of science nationwide.
Kingsland was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 1985 and for that honorary body has served as Secretary, as Treasurer, and as a member of its Executive Committee. He has chaired the ACMI Awards Committee. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and chaired the AMIA Awards Committee and the AMIA Bylaws Committee. He served on the Board of Directors of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), chaired the Student Paper Competition for the SCAMC symposium for many years, and served as Program Chairman for the Symposium itself in 1989. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI).
He is Co-Coordinator of the annual National Institutes of Health elective in Medical Informatics for third-year and fourth-year medical students. Kingsland has received the NIH Award of Merit and the NLM Director's Honor Award for his work in biomedical expert systems.
In 1996, Dr. Kingsland received the NIH Director's Award, the highest award given at NIH, for heading the team that created Internet Grateful Med. At its peak, Internet Grateful Med was accessed monthly by more than 190,000 persons making 1.6 million searches from more than 100 countries. Internet Grateful Med, which also received a Federal Showcase Site award in 1996, was retired in September 2001 with the retirement of the Elhill legacy retrieval system at the conclusion of NLM’s System Reinvention initiative.
Kingsland’s current work focuses on the NLM Gateway meta-search system. The Gateway offers users simultaneous searching in 23 NLM information resources: journal article citations; books, serials and audiovisual materials; consumer health information; meeting abstracts; and other collections. The NLM Gateway was brought on line in October 2000.
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