U.S. Navy Captain Pius Aiyelawo joins Clinical Center as chief operating officer

In April, retired U.S. Navy Captain Pius Aiyelawo joined the Clinical Center as the chief operating officer. Aiyelawo is the first COO to oversee clinical areas in addition to the administrative side. Aiyelawo has held senior leadership positions in hospitals and large medical research programs throughout a distinguished military career spanning over 27 years.

Patient with rare disease receives surprise visit from bone marrow donor

What would you say to the person who saved your life? A young man at the NIH Clinical Center faced this very question early in 2018 when he met the person who donated bone marrow to treat his life-threatening illness.

Poolesville High School students develop device for Project SEARCH graduate to increase productivity

NIH staff member Ricky Day with local high school students

Thanks to the bright minds of three local high school students, NIH Clinical Center employee Ricky Day has been able to use a new device that has helped him more than double his productivity in the Office of Administrative Management. In April, the students won a nationwide engineering competition for the device they created for Day.

Catalog of patient library resources now accessible online

The NIH Clinical Center patient library catalog recently went digital – NIH patients, their family members and caregivers can now go online from any computer, tablet or mobile device to browse and reserve more than 7,000 available items.