Stuart Nelson, MD, FACP, FACMI

Stuart J. Nelson is the Head of Medical Subject Headings at the National Library of Medicine. He has an AB degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MD from State University of New York at Brooklyn. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Philadelphia General Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital of New York City. He is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Nelson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Nelson moved to NLM in 1996. Prior to that he served on the medical faculties of SUNY at Stony Brook (1978 to 1991) and of the Medical College of Georgia (1991 to 1996). While practicing and teaching clinical medicine, he collaborated with Marsden S. Blois on a clinical evaluation of the reconsider project and served as a consultant to the NLM on the UMLS project. He served for five years on the Medical Informatics Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians. Since coming to the Library, Dr. Nelson has successfully converted MeSH into a concept-oriented vocabulary, developed the widely used graphical interface MeSH browser, contributed to the reinvention of the indexing process at the Library, and designed several methods for finding previously unrecognized synonymy in the UMLS.