Alexa T. Mccray

Biography

 McCray is the former director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. While at the NIH, she directed the design and development of a number of national information resources, including ClinicalTrials.gov. Before joining the NIH she was on the research staff of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. She received a PhD from Georgetown University and served on the faculty there. She conducted predoctoral research at MIT. McCray joined Harvard Medical School in 2005, where she was founding co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and associate director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. McCray was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly IOM) in 2001. She is the incoming co-chair the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Research Data and Information. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). She is the immediate past president of ACMI and is a past member of the board of both the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association

Research Interest

 Clinical Information, Biomedicine and Health, Consumer Health Information, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research