NLM Invites Nominations for IHTSDO Committees

Call for Nominations: As the U.S. Member of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is soliciting nominations of potential candidates for the four IHTSDO Standing Committees – Content, Quality Assurance, Implementation & Education (formerly Implementation and Innovation), and Technical. These Committees have important roles in the ongoing development of the SNOMED CT clinical terminology and in the IHTSDO. Nominations are due to NLM by COB August 4, 2014. The current roster, terms of reference, and recent reports of each Committee are available on the IHTSDO website.  The Committees are described in Sections 9.4-9.5 of the Articles of the IHTSDO. Roughly half of each Standing Committee’s 12 members are serving terms that expire in December 2014. People elected to these slots will serve for 2 years (Jan. 2015-Dec. 2016). There may be additional Committee vacancies caused by resignations; people elected to fill these mid-term slots will serve for 1 year (Jan-Dec. 2015). Current Committee members whose terms are expiring are eligible for re-nomination to the same committee provided they have not served more than six consecutive years on that committee.  Re-nomination to the same committee is possible after sitting out a minimum of one year from the date they left the Committee.  There is no impediment to a Committee member leaving one Committee and being nominated to another.  Current Co...
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