Dr. Milton Corn is Associate Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and director of the library's grant programs, a principal source of funding for medical informatics research and training in the US.

He is a graduate of Yale College (summa) and Yale Medical School (summa) He was trained in internal medicine at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and in hematology at Johns Hopkins. Most of his academic career was spent at Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he held the appointment of Professor of Medicine. In 1984-85 he was Medical Director of Georgetown University Hospital and subsequently served for four years as Dean of Georgetown's Medical School.

Dr. Corn joined NIH in 1990, and administers a broad spectrum of grant programs related to biomedical computing relevant for basic research, health care delivery and education. He is board-certified in internal medicine and hematology, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Medical Informatics.