Senior Program Analyst
National Institutes of Health
Richard Bailen, M.B.A., M.H.A., joined the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) in October 2004 as a Senior Program Analyst. His primary responsibilities include business management of the ODS extramural grants portfolio and project management of ODS database initiatives.
Mr. Bailen also is currently serving as the ODS project manager for the Dietary Supplements Label Database initiative. Coordinating the efforts of NIH scientific program staff and a private contractor, he oversaw the design, development, and demonstration of this database intended to serve the needs of researchers and educators by providing public access to the information on the labels of dietary supplements sold in the U.S. He is currently managing the deployment and data population aspects of this high profile project.
Before joining ODS, Mr. Bailen worked as a Program Analyst at the National Cancer Institute where he coordinated all administrative and information technology aspects of the extramural grants process for the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. He has a Master’s degree in both Business and Health Administration from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.