Expertise and Research Interests:

James (Jim) Mork, MS, has been named Deputy Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health. The LHNCBC Deputy Director is a newly created role that will share responsibility with the Director for overall program development, program evaluation, policy formulation, direction, and coordination of all LHNCBC activities. 

Mr. Mork brings more than 26 years of experience in biomedical research and production, product assessment, data science, and natural language processing to his new role, as well as expertise in spurring innovation, building relationships, and change management. During Mr. Mork’s career with NLM, he served as the Acting Chief of the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch in LHNCBC, managing strategic direction for the branch and leading development efforts to include the NLM Medical Text Indexing Initiative (MTI). He has been instrumental in launching key initiatives at NLM such as implementing the Center for Clinical Observational Investigations and the FISMA-moderate Environment for Health-Related Data about Individuals (FEHRDI). 

Mr. Mork has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Central Michigan University and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Honors and Awards:

• 2021 – NLM Board of Regents Award recipient
• 2021 – Multiple Recognition and Appreciation of Special Achievement Individual and Group Awards
• 2020 – Multiple Recognition and Appreciation of Special Achievement Individual and Group Awards
• 2019 - Recognition and Appreciation of Special Achievement Group Award
• 2018 – NIH Merit Award
• 2017 - Recognition and Appreciation of Special Achievement Group Award
• 2017 - Quality Step Increase for Sustained High Quality Work Performance
• 2016 - Frank B. Rogers Award recipient
• 2015 - Library Operations Choice Awards Certificate of Appreciation
• 2015 - Quality Step Increase for Sustained High Quality Work Performance
• 2014 - Recognition and Appreciation of Special Achievement
• 2013 - Library Operations Choice Awards Certificate of Appreciation
• 2011 - Exceptional Service by a Contractor for Medical Text Indexer First Line Prototype development
• 2011 – Special Act or Service Award for MTI as First Line Indexer Development and Pilot Production Project
• 2009 – Exceptional Service by a Contractor for Medical Text Indexer Catalog support
• 2008 – Special Act or Service Award for Medical Text Indexer Catalog support
• 2008 – Letter of Appreciation for Office of Director NIH Biennial Report support

Publications:

Le D, Mork J. Check Tags MeSH Terms Indexing Research Project. A report to the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch.

Lu CJ, Payne A, Mork J. Enhancing The SPECIALIST Lexicon with WordNet. AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium, Nov. 5-9, 2022.

Lu CJ, Payne A, Mork J. Identifying Criteria for Antonym Generation from Corpora. AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium, Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2021, p.1734.

Le DX, Mork JG, Antani S. Hybrid Ensemble-Rule Algorithm for Improved MEDLINE® Sentence Boundary Detection. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceeding 2021;2021:677-686.

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