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Alexa McCray is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a founding co-director of Harvard's Center for Biomedical Informatics. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she served as the 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.

Education & Early Career
McCray received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Skidmore College in 1969, where she studied modern languages. She then attended Boston College, where she received her Master of Arts degree in German Literature and Languages. She received her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Georgetown University in 1977 and 1981, respectively, studying Linguistics.

Research
McCray's research centers on knowledge representation and discovery, with a particular focus on how clinical information biomedical research and human health.

Leadership
From 1997 to 2005, McCray served as Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine.

From 2013 to 2014, she served as the President of the American College of Medical Informatics. She currently serves as the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Board of Research Data and Information (BRDI), which is charged with improving the policy and practices around and use of digital data and information.

ClinicalTrials.gov
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/713934/better-access-information-about-clinical-trials

Scientific Committee Service
McCray has lent her expertise to a number of scientific councils and committees. Between 2017 and 2018, she served as the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise, which produced a report by the same name. The Committee worked from the premise that the products of science—including publications, data, and underlying analytic methodologies—should be made freely available. This practice is known as open science in the research community. The Committee looked at challenges to realizing open science—including academic culture and incentives, economic models of publishing, and barriers in infrastructure—and published recommendations for coordinated actions across the research community to foster openness across the research enterprise in a 2018 report.

Awards & Honors

 * Innovations in American Government Award, Harvard University, 2004
 * Plain Language Award, presented by Vice President Al Gore, 2001
 * Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2001
 * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998
 * Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 1994