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A Busy To-Do List
Collins Convenes First ACD Meeting as Director |
By Carla Garnett |
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Dr. Francis Collins holds his first ACD meeting as NIH director. |
Host the President. Account for unprecedented stimulus windfall. Meet reps from dozens of constituency groups. Announce new stem cell lines. Plan to avoid fall from future fiscal cliff. These were just a few items on the to-do list of NIH director Dr. Francis Collins in the first 4 months of his new job. At the Dec. 4 meeting of the advisory committee to the director, he described life in the top chair at NIH.
“This has been a pretty wild ride, this first 115 days. Trying to figure out the right metaphor is sort of like this,” Collins joked, showing a slide of a boy attempting to sip from a rush of water. “I don’t think it quite does justice, though, because it really feels like drinking from a fire hose while riding a rollercoaster. There are so many things coming at you every day, but the staff here is phenomenal and the science is truly exciting.”
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