Kimberley Aslett, MA, MLS, is a solo librarian at a Northern Ontario community hospital. Kim has a background in post-secondary education and experience as an instructional designer for online courses. She continues to teach English at the university level, promotes information and health literacy, and enjoys the variety and scope of managing a busy library serving all health professions and learners.
Gurvinder Batra hold a Master degree in Information Studies from University of Toronto as well Master degree in Library Science and Master Degree in Home Science from India. Currently she is a solo librarian at Toronto East General Hospital. She has an experience of more than ten years in librarianship, and enjoys the latest technologies coming in the libraries.
Liz Bayley (BA McMaster, MLS Western) is the Acting Director / Head of Systems in the Health Sciences Library and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. She teaches evidence-based practice in the School of Nursing and serves on the Professional Competency Curriculum Committee and chairs the Lifelong Learning group for the Michael DeGroote School of Medicine.
Health Sciences Library, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada
Email: bayleyl@mcmaster.ca, Tel: 905-525-9140, x22545
Elaine Baldwin BA, MLS, Librarian, St. Mary's General Hospital:
Elaine has been a medical/health sciences librarian for over 20 years. She promotes the library as an important component of patient care. Her philosophy is that you must learn something new each day or you do not grow.
Leslie Bella is a research professor from Newfoundland's Memorial University, where she taught social work. Her social work practice and research focus on marginalized populations, and she has worked extensively with community centres in low-income communities, with the LGBTQ community, with aboriginal communities in Canada, and with a variety of community-based violence prevention initiatives.
Olwen Beaven:
Olwen has worked as an Information Specialist in the evidence-based health field for a number of years with different organisations in the UK (including Cochrane and CRD) and is currently Deputy Information Specialist Manager at BMJ Publishing Group. She has a Masters degree in Information Science from City University.
Laurie Blanchard is Outreach Librarian, Long-Term Care at the J. W. Crane Memorial Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries. Laurie has an MLS from McGill University; is a past editor of BMC; former president and program chair of the MHLA, and is currently Program Chair for CHLA/ABSC 2009, Winnipeg.
Andrew Booth is an information professional/lecturer/researcher with experience of a wide range of aspects of evidence based practice. He has worked in health information for 25 years, most recently at the King's Fund Centre where he managed three national information services and, since November 1994, the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) , University of Sheffield where he is Director of Information Resources. His current brief is to develop research intelligence support services both within the University of Sheffield and the Trent, Yorkshire and Humber regions.
Andrew holds an academic appointment as Reader (Associate Professor equivalent) in Evidence Based Information Practice at ScHARR and co-ordinates modules in Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal, Information for Healthcare Management and Maximising the Usefulness of Secondary Sources of Data. He teaches on the ScHARR Masters in Public Health programme and is currently reconfiguring a Masters in Health Informatics in conjunction with the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Andrew has researched and published extensively on all aspects of evidence based practice including literature searching and critically appraising the evidence . His recent research projects include systematic reviews for the NHS Health Technology Assessment and Service Delivery and Organisation Programmes. This has led naturally to work on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). He is co-editor (with Anne Brice) of Evidence Based Practice for Information Professionals: a handbook (2004), the first text on evidence based librarianship along with over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of the paradigm. He is on the Editorial Boards of Health Information & Libraries Journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries and the International Journal of Mixed Methods Research. He is currently coordinating the Programme Committee for the next International EBLIP Conference in Stockholm, 2008
Samantha Burdett is a librarian and researcher in the not-for-profit sector. She was recently appointed as Senior Policy and Research Analyst at the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Trish Chatterley completed her MLIS degree at the University of Alberta in 2006. She holds a cross-appointment between the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library (U of A) and the Institute of Health Economics. She is currently Vice-President of the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association. Her interests include the history of librarianship and systematic review searching
Mary Chipanshi, MLS, AHIP, is a Client Services Librarian for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, where she provides reference, research, and instructional services in the context of evidence-based practice to hospital physicians, interns, nurses and employees of the Region.
Stephen Choi, MD, FRCPC is an emergency physician and Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Ottawa. He is currently the Co-Editor and one of the founding members of Open Medicine, an open access general medical journal. From 2003 to 2005, Dr Choi was Deputy Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dagmara Chojecki, a recent MLIS graduate of McGill's School of Information Studies, is currently taking part in the University of Alberta' s Academic Library Intern Program and is a public services librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. Her research interests include: evidence based librarianship as it applies to health science environments, information literacy and digital preservation.
Alexandra (Sascha) Davis is expecting her first child in August, and is the collections librarian at The Ottawa Hospital. She has strongly supported the development of a tool that assists users to efficiently access the electronic journal collection. Sascha graduated from McGill in 199? and immediately started working for The Ottawa Hospital.
Liz Dennett is currently employed in a joint position with the Institute of Health Economics and the University of Alberta Health Sciences Library in Edmonton. Liz's interests include expert searching and health technology assessment.
Ryan Deschamps is the e-Learning Manager at the Halifax Public Libraries and
maintainer of The Other Librarian blog which was recently named #22 in the
Online Education Database's list of the top 25 library bloggers.
Laura DiCarlo is currently an Audio Visual Specialist in the Lyons Instructional Media Centre at McMaster University. She is completing her Masters in Library and Information Science degree part time at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Laura has worked in various library settings since 1995.
Marina Englesakis graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a MLIS in 1987. She has worked in the health libraries for 19 years, the last 10 years as an Information Specialist at the University Health Network. A career highlight was participating in a systematic review with Dr. Gunther Eysenbach.
Amy Faulkner has been an Information Specialist at the University Health Network in Toronto since May 2005. Prior to this she completed her Master of Information Studies degree at the University of Toronto (2005) and her Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Studies and Sociology at McMaster University (2003).
Robin Featherstone is a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow.
She is currently conducting the second year of her fellowship with the
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
Robin completed her MLIS in 2006 at the School of Information Management
at Dalhousie University where she also worked as an intern for the W.K.
Kellogg Health Sciences Library.
Dr Ina Fourie is an associate professor at the Department of Information
Science, University of Pretoria. Her teaching responsibilities entail
aspects of information organisation, information seeking and information
retrieval. Apart from information behaviour her research interest
entails current awareness services, distance teaching, adult learning,
collaborative learning and collaborative information seeking. She has
more than 13 years teaching experience at a very large distance teaching
university in South Africa, and about 7 years working with younger
adults at a residential university.
Joanne Fraser's management background in the public, private and international non-government sectors brings a wealth of experience to her training and facilitation work. For the past nine years she has worked as an independent consultant.
Currently Ms. Fraser provides training and facilitation services through the consulting firm RiverSystems: Leadership, Strategy and Organizational Development. She has designed and delivered training workshops in project management, leadership and team skills, coaching, conflict resolution and negotiation skills. Joanne regularly leads workshops with provincial government employees in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. For Dalhousie University's College of Continuing Education and UNB's College of Extended Learning she facilitates workshops within their leadership and adult education programs. Joanne also facilitates intercultural effectiveness training for the Centre for Intercultural Learning.
Ms. Fraser has a Certificate in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University. She holds a BSc degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a MSc degree in Comparative Development and International Policy from the University of Bristol, England.
Francesca Frati graduated from the Dalhousie School of Library and Information Studies in 2005. She works at the SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, in the Health Sciences Library and at the Herzl Family Practise Centre as Patient Information Coordinator, where she has implemented an innovative new information prescription service for patients and families at point of care.
Karen Gehan, BA, BNSc, RN, MEd, Clinical Educator, Surgery, St. Mary's General Hospital:
Karen has accumulated an extensive background in clinical nursing and in nursing education throughout her career in Canada and Bermuda. She is passionate about the need for patient education to be current, accessible and to promote the health and well-being of patients and their families.
Lori Giles-Smith is the Health Sciences Centre Hospital Librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba. Lori works closely with the staff at the HSC who keep her busy with committee work, literature searches, and training sessions. Lori is responsible for building the consumer health collection and the nursing and allied health collection at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library. She is co-editor of the health sciences libraries' electronic newsletter Info-RX.
Roma Harris is a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at The University of Western Ontario. She has written about the impact of technological change on women's work in libraries and has researched information-seeking by abused women. Her current work focuses on health help-seeking in rural communities, especially among people living with HIV/AIDS
Michelle Helliwell is currently acting manager of Library & Knowledge Management Services, which is a shared service of the South Shore, South West and Annapolis Valley District Health Authorities (DHAs) in Nova Scotia. She has responsibilities for patient education information management and health literacy, as well as supporting the portfolio of Community Health.
Jim Henderson, in 2002, became the Life Sciences Librarian for McGill University, responsible for the Life Sciences Library and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. From 1991 to 2002, he was the Director of the Medical Library Service of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, which served all physicians registered to practice in the province. From 1974 to 1991, he held various positions in the UBC Library. He has taught for the UBC and McGill library schools and has been active in provincial, national, and international professional associations, currently a member of the National Network of Libraries for Health Task Force of CHLA-ABSC. In 1997, he was awarded the CHLA-ABSC Award of Outstanding Achievement for his work introducing DOCLINE into Canada in 1993. Current interests include global health, aboriginal health, and improving communication between clinicians and patients through the use of quality, understandable health information.
Amanda Hodgson received her MLIS from McGill University's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She currently works as an Information Specialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa, where she conducts literature searches in support of reviews of drugs and other health technologies. Prior to CADTH, she was employed as a reference librarian at the Science Library Network, Health Canada.
Dawn Hooper is Data & Research Services Librarian
at the University of Prince Edward Island. She is the liaison librarian
for nursing, veterinary medicine, and biology.
Mary Anne Howse is the Coordinator of the Marion Powell Women's Health Information Centre, the consumer health library of Women's College Hospital. Prior to joining Women's College Hospital, she was a librarian at the AIDS Committee of Toronto where she developed the 3rd and 4th editions of The Living Guide: Services for People in the Toronto Area Living with HIV or AIDS. Presently Mary Anne is Co-Convenor of CHIPIG.
Geoff Hynes, M.Sc., Senior Policy Advisor, Knowledge Translation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Geoff joined the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2004 as a Research Advisor in the Office of the President. In the role as Research Advisor, Geoff provided research and communications support to the president of CIHR, Dr. Alan Bernstein. Since 2006, Geoff has been involved in both government and research policy, first with Corporate Policy and most recently with CIHR's Knowledge Translation Portfolio. Geoff has led the development and implementation of the CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs. The objective of this policy is to maximize health research impact by increasing access to CIHR-funded research outputs including journal publications and data.
Prior to joining CIHR, Geoff worked in Montreal as a Research and Development Executive with an international health services provider. Geoff holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Human Nutrition from McGill University (2002), and a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition/Biochemistry (Honours) from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1998).
Micheline Jaworski, R.N., B.A., B.Ed., as the Senior Nurse Consultant – Knowledge Management for the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and the NurseONE portal, leads the development of initiatives which enable the sharing of data, information and knowledge related to all aspects of nursing and health care. With over twenty years experience in information communication technologies, she manages the Helen K. Mussallem e-library and the NurseConnect portions of NurseONE. These initiatives assist nurses in remaining at the forefront of their practice; building and strengthening an informatics culture within the national nursing community and promote professional development; life-long learning; safe patient care and enhanced patient outcomes.
Betty Jeffery is the Instruction & Education Services Librarian
at the University of Prince Edward Island. Forging
collaborations with departmental faculty is one of her professional
interests.
Anne Kilfoil has 20 years management experience at Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation, first as Director of Library Services and, for the past 9 years, as the Region Director of Organizational Learning, providing direction to the departments of Organizational Learning, Library Services and Web Applications.
Anne has an Honours degree in Psychology from the University of New Brunswick and earned her MLS degree from Dalhousie University. Her commitment to continuous learning has since earned her certification in Adult Education from St. F. X. University, the Canadian Healthcare Association's certification in management and most recently, the Management Certification in Continuous Quality Management from the Canadian Healthcare Association.
Sam King, an MLS graduate of Dalhousie University, has been a clinical librarian at Yale New Haven Health, Library Director at Halifax's VGH and later the Optima Health System in NH. Since 2001, he has been with SNHU and MCPHS (Boston and Manchester - where he teaches live and virtually, including informatics). Sam has a fellowship in informatics from NLM.
Shauna-Lee Konrad is a Reference Librarian for the London Health Sciences Centre. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's MLIS program (2006) and holds a B.A. in French from the University of Waterloo (1998) and a B.Ed. from Brock University (1999). Prior to attending library school Shauna-Lee worked for the York Region District School Board as an intermediate French immersion teacher.
Mark Leggott is the University Librarian at the University of Prince
Edward Island, an IBC (Islander By Choice) and pleased to be working
with a team creating leading edge innovative tools and services.
Before moving to the Island Mark was University Librarian and
Associate Dean of Education at the University of Winnipeg. Mark is a
strong open source proponent, leading the development of projects like
OpenILL and Martini. Mark is also an avid blogger having created
LoomWare.ca and SlowLibrary.ca.
Jessica McEwan is a Reference Librarian at the London Regional Cancer Centre, London Health Sciences Centre. She received her MLIS (2004) from the University of Western Ontario and holds an Honours Bachelor in English Literature (2003). Prior to her MLIS, Jessica taught Russian style ballet.
Ann McKibbon MLS, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Ann McKibbon has a health sciences librarian for more than 30 years. She has
continued her education in health informatics and is starting an MSc in
eHealth at McMaster University. She is interested in evidence-based
practice, integrating information resources into electronic medical records
systems, and how clinicians use information. She has published several books
and over 50 peer reviewed articles in medical informatics and information
sciences and has taught more than 200 workshops in the areas of information
retrieval, evidence based medicine, and knowledge translation. Her favourite
course is this one, basics of evidence-based practice.
Gwendolyn MacNairn has been involved in education and the
delivery of technology training for more than 20 years. She is
currently the Computer Science Librarian at Dalhousie University.
Previously, she worked as an instructional designer and GIS product
specialist with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), in
Redlands, California. In this capacity she was part of a small team
that wrote and designed a series of tutorials and workbooks that
were well received by the educational sector.
Jeff Mason, MLIS, is a Client Services Librarian for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. Jeff is an active member in the local library community and is currently the president of the Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association. Nationally, Jeff has presented papers on information literacy instruction and library resources at the Canadian Health Libraries Association conference in both 2006 and 2007.
Donna Meighan, M.L.S
Partnership Development Officer, Health Portfolio, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Donna is with the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), part of the National Research Council of Canada, where she was recently appointed to the position of Partnership Development Officer responsible for CISTI's Health Portfolio. Donna began her career as a health sciences librarian at the Ottawa Civic Hospital's Health Sciences Library. In 1985 she joined CISTI where she held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility such as Manager of CISTI's Marketing Group and as the lead for several cross-directorate projects. Currently she is the CISTI lead in the collaboration with CIHR on the PMC Canada initiative. Donna holds a Master of Library Science (M.L.S.) from McGill University and a Bachelor's degree in English (Honours) from Carleton University.
Kimberley Meighan, RN, Manager, AboutKidsHealth Family Resource Centre. Kimberley Meighan is a Registered Nurse who has worked at The Hospital for Sock Children for over 33 years in a variety of clinical nursing roles, including medical/surgical nursing, and hematology/oncology. Her current role includes managing The AboutKidsHealth Family Resource Centre assisting families of inpatients and ambulatory patients with their information and education needs. Additional responsibilities include Health Promotion and Health Communication where she holds numerous executive positions on a number of internal committees and external community organizations. Throughout her career she has conducted research, published papers and presented at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally.
She is currently co/project manger for the AboutKidsHealth Family Health Media Group hospital-wide patient education initiative. This project has assessed and reviewed existing processes, and is now implementing a comprehensive approach to the Hospital's patient education program that will ensure families have access to the best evidenced-based education resources.
Christine Neilson is the Outreach Services Librarian for the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP), a unique initiative that works to provide Saskatchewan's health practitioners with access to reliable online health information resources. Christine travels across Saskatchewan to train health practitioners in the use of SHIRP resources.
Sarah Normandin is an Information Specialist for the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), where she contributes to health technology assessments and systematic reviews for drugs, devices, and other health technologies. Previously, Sarah worked at the Information Centre for Aboriginal Health portal for Aboriginal population health, health career resources, and consumer health. Sarah holds an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.
Sandi Olfert, PhD, is a Research Scientist with Research & Performance Support in the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. She obtained a Master of Science degree in Community Health & Epidemiology (2003) and in 2006 completed a Ph.D. in epidemiology at The University of Texas School of Public Health. Sandy has received a number of awards for her research and academic work, including funding from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (USA), and scholarships from both The University of Texas and the Government of Canada.
Carol O'Neil is the Associate Director (Technology) of The Centre for Learning
and Teaching at Dalhousie University.
Peggy O'Neil B.Ed.; M.Ed. (Thesis- Education Policy) is the Manager of
the Health Sciences Library and Student Affairs at London Health
Sciences Centre. In her 20 years in health care, she has held various
leadership positions in Nutrition, Communications and Education. Her
leadership and research interests include the sociology of knowledge in
the business context, the notion and nature of "professions" and policy
and education practice development in the teaching hospital setting.
Daniel Phelan is Senior Librarian Emeritus of Ryerson University in Toronto and an independent research consult in Kingston, Ontario. He was formerly the Manager, Collection Services Team at Ryerson University Library until 2007. Joining Ryerson in 1985, Mr. Phelan had a variety of positions including AV Librarian, Science and Technology Librarian, and Head of Interlibrary Loans and Access Services. Prior to coming to Ryerson he held positions at North Bay Public Library, the University of Manitoba, and McGill University where he obtained his Masters of Library Science degree. Mr. Phelan's publications include an article on the Canadian National Site Licensing Project in AGAINST THE GRAIN and as co-editor of the 2002 issue of LIBRARY TRENDS on Midlife Career Choices for librarians. He has given presentations and workshops on leadership to the Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto, the CHLA/ABSC Vancouver conference in 2006, the Charleston Conference, and the Ontario Library Association Super Conference. He previously presented a CE course on learning styles at CHLA/ABSC in 2002. He served on Ryerson's Academic Standards Committee for six years and served a three year term on the Board of the Ontario College and University Libraries Association . Mr. Phelan was Chair of the Ryerson Faculty Association 's Professional Affairs Committee and organized workshops on green issues and bullying in academia His professional interests include distance education, document delivery, leadership, andragogy, and information literacy.
Christopher Popovich works at the Faculty Development Office in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and has been involved in several joint Faculty Development - Life Sciences Library workshops aimed at improving information literacy among faculty. He has a BA from the University of Victoria and is pursuing a post-graduate certificate in Human Resource Management.
Susan Powelson, MLS, AHIP, has worked at the University of Alberta, and the Albert Justice Provincial Court Libraries and is currently the Library Director for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. In 2006 Susan was named Canadian Hospital Librarian of the Year. She is co-chair of the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership, chaired the CHLA/ABSC Taskforce to revise the Standards for Library and Information Services in Canadian Healthcare Facilities and is currently the president of CHLA/ABSC.
Elena Prigoda has a BSc from Guelph and an MLIS from Western. Her prior research pursuits have covered a wide range of topics from the use of zoological nomenclature to information behaviour in knitting circles. Elena is currently acting Co-ordinator of Reference & Research at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto. Her duties include liaison with the faculties of Medicine and Nursing.
Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, ON Canada
Email: elena.prigoda@utoronto.ca, Tel: 416 946-5759
Margaret Quirie has been the director of Library Services at the Ottawa Hospital since 2004. Prior to that she worked in technology libraries focusing on mining and metallurgical research and the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
Tamara Rader:
Tamara has been working for BMJ Publishing Group since 2001. In 2004 she returned to Canada to work freelance. Before that she worked in several Montreal hospitals as an Information Specialist, providing customized library services to staff. Tamara has a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies from McGill University.
Iona Robu has been the director of the library at the Université de Médecine et de Pharmacie in Cluj-Napoca, Romania since 1994. She started at the Université as a librarian in 1981. In 1997, she received the Cunningham Fellowship from the Medical Library Association to attend the MLA conference and participate in an exchange program with a North American medical library. Ms. Robu is also the president of the medical section of the Romanian Library Association. As a member of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL), she organized the 10th annual EAHIL conference that was held in Romania in 2006.
Elizabeth Clara Sander holds a PhD degree in Music (UWO, 2003) and is the author of the book Social Dancing in Peter the Great's Russia: Observations by Holstein Nobleman Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz, 1721 to 1725 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2007). She expects to graduate from the MLIS program at the University of Western Ontario in June.
Dr. Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law
University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Dr. Scassa holds undergraduate law degrees in civil and common law from McGill University, as well as an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society since 1994. She taught at Dalhousie Law School for 15 years before joining the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa as a full professor in July 2007. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Law.
During her career, Dr. Scassa has taught a range of subjects including Intellectual Property Law, Law and Technology, Public Law, Administrative Law, and Professional Responsibility. She is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, and co-author of the recent book Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, (CCH Canadian Ltd.). Her research and scholarship is primarily in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology, and privacy. She has written articles on a range of topics in theses areas. Recent articles include "Faster, Higher, Stronger: The Protection of Olympic Marks Leading Up to Vancouver 2010" (forthcoming); "The Doctrine of Functionality in Trade-mark Law Post-Kirkbi", forthcoming in the Intellectual Property Journal, 2008; "Using Copyright Law to Prevent Parallel Importation: A Comment on Kraft Canada, Inc. v. Euro Excellence, Inc.", (2007) 85 Cdn Bar Rev. 409; and "Original Facts: Skill, Judgment and the Public Domain", (2006) 51 McGill L.J. 253-278.
Dr. Scassa is a member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, the International Trademarks Association, ALAI Canada, the Canadian Information Technology Lawyers Association, and the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property.
Rita Shaughnessy is a librarian in the Department of Family
& Community Medicine, University of Toronto
http://dfcm19.med.utoronto.ca/. She manages the Department's
Resource Centre and provides library service to the Faculty of
Medicine's Centre for Faculty Development. She teaches database and
Internet search techniques to medical students, residents and faculty.
Christine Shaw-Daigle is the University of Manitoba Hospital Librarian
at the Victoria General Hospital. Christine manages the VGH library,
offering a full range of services to staff, students, and consumer
health patrons at the Victoria General Hospital, and Winnipeg Regional
Health Authority staff in the Winnipeg Fort Garry area. She is the Past
President of the Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers
and Co Chair of the 2009 CHLA/ABSC Conference Planning Team.
Risa Shorr is an electronics/reference librarian at The Ottawa Hospital. A MLIS graduate from UWO in 1999, Risa has an undergraduate degree in English Literature.
Ronald Stewart, OC, ONS, BA, BSc, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, DSc(Hon)
Dr. Ronald Stewart, Officer of the Order of Canada and former Minister of Health for the Province of Nova Scotia practiced medicine in Neil's Harbour, a northern coastal fishing village on his home island of Cape Breton. After several years, he entered the residency programme in Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California and became the first medical director of paramedic training for the County of Los Angeles. He remained on the Faculty of Medicine at the University until accepting an offer from the University of Pittsburgh at which institution he established the Centre for Emergency Medicine and became the Medical Director of the Department of Public Safety of that city. The institute and residency programme in emergency medicine he helped establish have become world leaders in research and education in the specialty.
Returning Nova Scotia Dr. Stewart took up duties in emergency medicine and anaesthesia at Dalhousie University and conducted research in the management of acute pain in trauma. He was successful in the general election of 1993 and served in the Cabinet as Minister of Health and Registrar General for the Province until 1996. Dr. Stewart has received an impressive number of awards and acknowledgements of his academic and life achievements, too numerous to mention here.
His return to Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been marked by his deep commitment to advocacy for students and attention to the content and methods current in medical education. In the six years since his return to Dalhousie, Dr. Stewart has developed, helped fund, and supervised over 25 international projects and student electives in Iceland, West Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts-Nevis, and Cuba. In 2005 the Office of International Programs of Dalhousie University, announced the creation of the Ronald D. Stewart Award for International Service to be presented annually to a student or student group in recognition of humanitarian overseas service. Dr. Stewart continues in his role as a national advocate of Canada's health system and of health renewal in Canada. He continues to add to his 200 publications in the art and science of medicine, and to pursue projects in the field of international health, particularly the health and political aspects of antipersonnel landmines, firearms control, and the medical humanities (Music-in-Medicine). Though having to travel widely, he is happy whether caught on the freeways while visiting L.A., doing "ride-alongs" with his close friends the paramedics of Pittsburgh, or (best of all) on the shores of the ocean surrounding his beloved island of Cape Breton.
Doug Suarez was educated at McMaster University (BA, MA.) and University of Western Ontario (MLS) and is currently employed as Reference Librarian, Applied Health Sciences, Brock University. Doug is liaison librarian for nursing and community health sciences. His research interests include study and learning behavior and qualitative methods.
James A. Gibson Library, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON Canada
Email: dsuarez@brocku.ca, Tel: 905-688-5550 x4083
Benoit Thirion, since 1983, has been the manager of the Medical Library du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen.
He is co-responsible for the CISMeF project (Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux Francophones) since its creation in 1995.
He has been vice-president of EAHIL European Association for Health Information and Libraries since 2006."
Mindy Thuna began working at the University of Toronto Mississauga
Library in 2005 as the AstraZeneca Science Liaison Librarian. Prior to
librarianship, Mindy completed her BSc. in Palaeontology at the
University of Toronto and her MSc. in Vertebrate Morphology at the
University of Calgary.
Eva Veres is the Manager of Library, Learning Technologies & Services at the Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC. The Family Resource Library, C&W Bookstore, Media Production & Services, E-Learning and Desktop Publishing are part of her portfolio. She completed her BSc at Dalhousie, an MA at Simon Fraser and her MLS at UBC.
Rita Vine is a senior reference and instruction librarian in the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto.
Nadine Wathen is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at The University of Western Ontario. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award to support her research, which examines health decision-making, interventions for violence against women and knowledge translation and uptake in women's health.
Sarah Wickett is Health Informatics Librarian at Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen's University. In this position she collaborates with faculty and fellow librarians to incorporate technology and electronic learning resources into teaching and learning activities. Prior to arriving at Queen's, Sarah worked at Trent University in Ontario and graduated with her MLIS from Dalhousie University. Particular interests include the provision of innovative sources of health information, and the integration of resources, technology, and pedagogy. Sarah enjoys learning in, and contributing to her multigerational work environment.
Kelli Wooshue currently works in the Halifax Public Libraries as the Reference
Services Resource Manager. Prior to that, she was a part-time faculty member in
Dalhousie University's School of Information Management. In addition to an
MLIS, she holds an undergraduate degree in Information Technology.
Sally Wyatt is Professor of Digital Cultures in Development at Maastricht University and a senior research fellow with the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research examines the relationship between technological and social change, focusing particularly on issues of social exclusion and inequality.
