MLA's Educational Webcast

Shifting Skills to Navigate the Changing Horizon: Finding Our Way in New Biomedical Research and Health Care Environments

Originally held Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., central time

Presenters

Donna B. Flake, AHIP

Donna B. Flake, AHIP, is director of the South East Area Health Education Center (SEAHEC) Medical Library in Wilmington, NC. In 2008, she integrated the library's digital library into the electronic health record (EHR) at her institution. Flake received the MLA T. Mark Hodges International Service Award in 2009, currently serves on the MLA Librarians Without Borders Advisory Committee, was MLA's representative to the European Association for Health Information and Libraries for six years, has been chair of MLA's International Cooperation Section, and leads a partnership between all the North Carolina medical libraries and the Scientific Medical Library of Moldova in eastern Europe. Flake is a popular speaker, having made sixteen international presentations and nineteen in the United States, on topics such as EHR, statewide digital libraries, consumer information, and international partnerships. She has also published twenty-eight papers. Flake is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Sally Gore

Sally Gore is head of research and scholarly communication services, Lamar Soutter Library (LSL), University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS)–Worcester. She is responsible for coordinating the educational, outreach, and support services of the library to the research community of UMMS, including doctoral students in the graduate school of biomedical sciences (GSBS). These include support for issues related to the National Institute of Health (NIH) public access policy, authors' rights, open access, and (coming soon) data management. Gore's group manages eScholarship@UMassMed, a digital repository that currently contains more than 9,000 papers representing dozens of departments, labs, programs, and projects of the university, as well as a complete digitized collection of dissertations from GSBS and the graduate school of nursing. The repository also hosts two e-journals, one a peer-reviewed title for Neurology residents to gain experience in scholarly writing.

Gore is a member of MLA, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the American College of Sports Medicine. She is the incoming president of the Massachusetts Health Sciences Libraries Network, serves on the Executive Board of the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries, and a member of the Scholarly Communications SIG of ACRL New England. Sally represents LSL on the University of Massachusetts 5 Campus Science Librarians Group, a committee that plans and carries out professional development activities for science librarians. Her most important role for this group is serving as chair of the subcommittee for fun for the annual "Science Boot Camp for Librarians". These three-day summer camps allow librarians to learn the basics of different scientific disciplines from University of Massachusetts faculty and researchers. Here, Gore is responsible for all original, science-related camp songs and the design of merit badges.

Gore has undergraduate degrees in philosophy and exercise physiology, and graduate degrees in theology, exercise physiology, and library science. She earned her master of library science degree from Syracuse University.

Layne Johnson

Layne M. Johnson, serves as translational science information specialist in the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis (UMN) and library fellow in the Institute for Health Informatics. His formal education is in the life sciences, where he has earned a bachelor's in biology from Dana College, Blair NE, an master's in bacteriology, and a doctoral degree in microbiology from Iowa State University–Ames. His post-doctoral research was funded by Monsanto Company and was performed at the University of Oklahoma–Norman. He received grants from the National Environmental Health Association and National Science Foundation as an undergraduate.
He has studied environmental microbiology and ecology and began his pharmaceutical career as a bench scientist, leading a group of investigators who were aimed at discovering novel natural products for use in infectious disease, oncology, cardiovascular disease, metabolic diseases, animal health, and molecular biology.

Johnson has always been a heavy user of information and recalls using local college libraries to support his scientific studies while in high school. Once end-user search systems became available for biomedical researchers, he was the first laboratory investigator to use BRS Colleague to search MEDLINE at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, NY. From there, his career formally shifted to the world of information and his first role as senior biomedical information scientist supported research programs in molecular biology, infectious diseases, vaccines, and a variety of other areas. He became increasingly curious about the world of scientific information and held several global information management roles, the most recent with Pfizer. He joined the Health Sciences Libraries and Institute for Health Informatics at UMN in late 2009. He works closely with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UMN, where he is responsible for research networking systems, and biomedical health informatics initiatives and serves on the steering committee of the Office of Community Engagement for Health. He is active in MLA, Special Libraries Association, and American Medical Informatics Association and is the recruitment and evaluation lead for the University Partnership for Health Informatics consortium, a Office of the National Coordinator-funded university-based training program designed to prepare students to efficiently implement electronic health records and health information exchange systems.

Johnson lives in downtown Minneapolis with his super-intelligent Scottish terrier, Cooper, and will be a primary instructor for The Medical Library's Role in e-Science and Data Sharing, day-long continuing education course at MLA '11 on May 13.

Video-taped Presenters

Marisa L. Conte is the clinical and translational science liaison at the Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (UM). Her role is to integrate library and information management services into various clinical and bench research settings, patient care environments, and research administrative units. She also serves as the library's liaison to the college of pharmacy, several clinical departments, the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center and the privately funded Taubman Medical Research Institute. Her professional interests include biomedical informatics, data curation, and collaboration and team science.

Conte is a 2000 graduate of UM with a bachelor degree in medieval linguistics and literature, and she earned her master degree in library and information sciences from Wayne State University with concentrations in health sciences librarianship and information technology. Prior to coming to UM, Conte was a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow.

Julie K. Kwan, AHIP

Julie K. Kwan, AHIP serves as associate director for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region, located at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to serving as associate director, Kwan served as library network coordinator, managing network membership, maintaining oversight of the regional interlibrary loan program, and developing an electronic licensing program for hospital libraries. Kwan is also adjunct lecturer in UCLA's Department of Information Studies, teaching courses in health sciences librarianship and health informatics. Kwan holds a bachelor degree in biochemistry from Michigan State University, a master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois–Champaign/Urbana, and an advanced management program certificate from the University of Southern California's Office of Executive Education. She is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and holds the honor of Distinguished Librarian in the UCLA Library.

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