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Speaker Bios

Sarah Wickett is the chair of the Programme Committee. Paola Durando is the chair of the Poster Committee. Amanda Ross-White and Laurie Scott are the co-chairs of the Continuing Education Committee.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Jacalyn Duffin
Jacalyn Duffin, M.D. (Toronto 1974), FRCP(C) (1979), Ph.D. (Sorbonne 1985), is Professor in the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston where she has taught in medicine, philosophy, history, and law for more than twenty years. A practicing hematologist, a historian, a mother and grandmother, she has served as President of both the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. The author of five books and many research articles, she holds a number of awards and honours for research, writing, service, and teaching. She also has edited two anthologies. Her most recent book is an analysis of the medical aspects of canonization, Medical Miracles; Doctors, Saints, and Healing, 1588-1999, Oxford University Press, 2009. It was awarded the Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in November 2009. Her CV and teaching profile are at http://meds.queensu.ca/medicine/histm/index.html.↑ Back to top

Dr. Udo Schüklenk
Udo has taught at universities in Germany, Australia, the UK and South Africa before coming to Queen's. He has written or co-edited five books and authored or co-authored some 100+ publications in peer reviewed journals and anthologies. He's a Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics. Udo's main research interests are in the areas of public health issues and infectious disease control. His most recent journal contributions include papers in the American Journal of Public Health on mandatory HIV testing and the Journal of Medical Ethics on religious symbols in doctors' rooms.↑ Back to top

Dr. Sergio Sismondo
Sergio Sismondo does research in Science & Technology Studies at intersections of philosophy and sociology of science. Most of his work has been connected to questions about realism, constructivism, and deflationism. Recently he has been studying the nature and distribution of pharmaceutical research, seeing this as a project in the political economy of knowledge, or in social epistemology. In addition to a number of articles, he is the author of An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Science Without Myth: On Constructions Reality, and Social Knowledge (SUNY, 1996) and co-author with physicist Boris Castel of The Art of Science (Broadview, 2003). He has edited journal issues on Practices of Modeling and Simulation (Science in Context, 1999), and Intersections of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Research (Social Studies of Science, 2004).↑ Back to top

Dr. Brian Little
Dr. Little is an award winning Professor of Psychology, author and lecturer, who received considerable media attention for his “perfect course evaluations” while lecturing at Harvard University. He has developed a new theory of human personality that has revolutionized the academic field of personality science and has very practical implications for the quality of our working lives. His research touches on a diversity of topics, including decision making, communication, personality and leadership. Dr. Little was voted, three times, as a Favorite Professor at Harvard, by the graduating students and he was described by them as a “cross between Einstein and Robin Williams.” He insists the only common element is their height.↑ Back to top

CE Session Instructors

Catherine Bell, AICI CIP
Catherine Bell is one of only fourteen Certified Image Professionals in Canada, an Honors Fashion Design graduate from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, the recipient of the prestigious Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) Award of Excellence in Education, and is currently the International AICI Ethics Chair. Catherine had a lengthy career as a Head Designer and Merchandise Manager for Parkhurst Knitwear and professor before launching Prime Impressions in 1994, where she works with individuals and businesses to address workplace protocol and appearance issues that impact their success. Catherine is author of Managing Your Image Potential: Creating Good Impressions in Business, which is used globally as an image reference, and a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller, Masters of Networking. She is a media spokesperson on image issues and has been frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, and Canadian Business Magazine, and has been a frequent guest on CBC Radio, CBC Newsworld, and Canada AM. Her engaging, dynamic style and warm sense of humour have made her a popular speaker and effective corporate trainer. As a Polio survivor, Catherine volunteers on the Board of Ontario March of Dimes.↑ Back to top

Jean Dryden, MA, MLS, PhD
Jean Dryden's expertise in copyright has been developed during her experience as an archivist, a consultant, and scholar. She played a lead role in successful lobbying for exceptions for libraries, archives and museums during the discussions leading to the 1997 amendments to the Copyright Act. She is the author of Demystifying Copyright: A Researcher's Guide to Copyright in Canadian Libraries and Archives. Her doctoral dissertation investigated the copyright practices of Canadian archival repositories in making their holdings available on the Internet. In 2008, she joined the faculty of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include copyright in the digital environment, information law and policy, and digital preservation.↑ Back to top

Jessie McGowan, MLIS, PhD
Jessie McGowan has over sixteen years experience working with health libraries and medical informatics. Before joining the Institute of Population Health (IPH) at the University of Ottawa, she was a director at The Ottawa Hospital. She is a proponent of evidence-based philosophies, health services research, the integration of technologies with health information, knowledge translation from a number of perspectives, including decision aids, and knowledge dissemination. She completed a PhD which included an RCT of an ICT enabled question and answering service in primary care and a Cochrane review of electronic retrieval of health information. She is Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the National Network of Libraries for Health, a task force of the CHLA/ABSC whose goal is to provide equitable access to information for health care providers in Canada. This project is currently piloting a Canadian national license to The Cochrane Library. She presently works with IPH from a distance and provides consulting services in Toronto. (Also see her poster/paper presentation bio.)↑ Back to top

Sheila Pinchin BA Hons, BEd, MEd
Sheila Pinchin is an Educational Developer in the Office of Health Sciences Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She has worked in education since 1980, as a teacher in intermediate and senior divisions, and a curriculum consultant, as well as with the Ontario Ministry of Education. She’s been an adjunct professor of education since 2000 in language and literacy, intermediate/senior English and curriculum, as well as the Coordinator of Online Development for the Faculty of Education at Queen’s. Most recently in the Office of Health Sciences Education, Sheila is working with administrators and faculty in developing new curriculum, advising on innovations in teaching and as part of the etc, assisting in teaching with technology.↑ Back to top

Margaret Sampson, MLIS, PhD, AHIP
Margaret Sampson has ten years experience working with health information. Before joining the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario libraries as Manager of Library Services, Margaret was Senior Information Specialist and Deputy Director of Chalmers Research Group. As a leader in evidence-based librarianship, she has published and presented extensively and maintains an active research portfolio. Her work has brought several quality assurance innovations to systematic review searches including structured peer review, augmentation of the subject search through related article searching, and validation of the electronic search strategy through post hoc testing for retrieval failure in MEDLINE. Margaret has particular expertise in updating systematic reviews, and for her doctoral work, developed and tested a number of surveillance search strategies. She continues development work using machine learning and query by example to improve the efficiency of updating searches. Margaret’s clinical focus is pediatrics and complementary and alternative medicine.↑ Back to top

Lorri Zipperer, Cybrarian
Lorri Zipperer is the principal at Zipperer Project Management, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lorri has been in the information field for over two decades, over half of which have been focused on health care. She was a founding staff member of the National Patient Safety Foundation as the information project manager. While there, she provided the structure and scope for the NPSF’s Clearinghouse, discussion list, literature awareness and web page initiatives. Ms. Zipperer was the managing editor of Enhancing Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Health Care, the proceedings of the 1998 Annenberg meeting in Rancho Mirage, California, Lessons in Patient Safety, a compendium of important topics and literature in patient safety and presently serves as managing editor for the NPSF’s newsletter Focus on Patient Safety, a publication she launched for the Foundation. Lorri currently works with clients to provide patient safety information, knowledge sharing, project management and strategic development guidance. Lorri has recently led projects in patient safety educational tool development, publication evidence identification and organizational knowledge access improvement. She currently serves as the Cybrarian for AHRQ’s Patient Safety Net. She was published in the Quality and Safety in Health Care (ISSN 1475-3898) on opportunities for librarians to partner with clinicians to improve patient safety. She was recognized with a 2005 Institute for Safe Medication Practices “Cheers” award for her work with librarians, libraries and their involvement in patient safety. She has initiated and published 2 national surveys of librarians on their role in patient safety work to map the evolution of that role over time. Ms Zipperer's expertise was highlighted in the June 2009 Medical Library Association policy on the role of librarians in patient safety. She has launched blogs, online groups and communities of practice to enable sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate safety and quality improvement amongst her peers.↑ Back to top

Paper/Poster Authors/Presenters and the Panel Members

(In alphabetical order.)

Elizabeth Aitken has been with the Health Information Network in Calgary for four years and previously managed library services for the Calgary Health Region following positions as a Public Health librarian.

Kimberley Aslett is the Health Sciences Librarian at Sault Area Hospital, and Past President of the Ontario Health Libraries Association. Kimberley is active in education-related activities at three post-secondary institutions and with other local library groups. Her particular interests include health literacy and online learning.↑ Back to top

Debbie Ayotte is a librarian with The Ottawa Hospital where she divides her time between libraries at the Regional Geriatric Program of Eastern Ontario and Ottawa Public Health. Previously, she worked as an Information Specialist with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Debbie has a Masters in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University.↑ Back to top

Michelle Baratta’s education includes a B.Sc. (Hons) (2004) and a MISt (2007), both from the University of Toronto. She has held positions in academic and public libraries, as well as a corporate setting. She is currently a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of Toronto’s Engineering and Computer Science Library.↑ Back to top

Dr. Gillian Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from McGill University in 2001 and her M.Sc. in 1996. Dr. Bartlett specializes in patient safety in primary care. Her research involves health informatics, pharmacoepidemiology, population health and evaluation methodologies for complex data sets in primary care.↑ Back to top

Joan Bartlett is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University, and a member of the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics. Her research focuses on information behaviour and information interaction, particularly in the biomedical domain. She teaches in the areas of biomedical information and information literacy.↑ Back to top

Olwen Beaven 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 Evidence Centre. She has a Masters degree in Information Science from City University.↑ Back to top

Charlotte Beck is a reference librarian at the Woodward Library at the University of British Columbia and is the library liaison for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and audiology speech sciences.↑ Back to top

George Beckett has been the Associate University Librarian (Health Sciences) at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 1991. From 1995 to 2008 he was also the Manager of the Health Sciences Information & Media Service for the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial (IT, multi-media, teaching facility and instructional design services). He has had the pleasure of serving on the CHLA/ABSC Board as Treasurer and President and was a 2004 recipient of the Margaret Ridley Charlton Award for Outstanding Achievement. In earlier stages of his career as a librarian at Memorial University since 1981 he was involved with government documents, academic reference and collections, and automated systems development and support. Throughout his career as a librarian and a library manager he has had an interest in how library organizations struggle to adapt to change and innovation.↑ Back to top

M’hamed Belkhodja MLSc, is Director of the Health Science Library at the Dr-Georges-L-Dumont Regional Hospital in Moncton, NB. With 17 years of experience in university and health libraries, M'hamed provides an expansive list of resources to the local medical community. Currently, M'hamed is working to engender greater collaboration between Université de Moncton and the Regional Health Authority.↑ Back to top

Jill Boruff started her career in medical librarianship at the Neuro-Patient Resource Centre at the Montreal Neurological Hospital, while working on her Master’s degree. She is currently a Liaison Librarian in the Life Sciences Library at McGill University where she has worked since October 2007.↑ Back to top

Belinda Boyd is a member of the Community Engagement team of Vancouver Coastal Health. With over 25 years of experience, in the not-for-profit health sector and community based volunteering, Belinda has honed an understanding of the social determinants of health and the mechanisms needed to improve outcomes.↑ Back to top

Maria Buda received a MISt from the University of Toronto in 2007. She is currently the Dentistry Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries and the acting Webmaster for the Faculty of Dentistry. Her past work experience include records management and various student positions at UTL. Interests: information literacy; collection analysis.↑ Back to top

Sandy Campbell is a health sciences librarian at the University of Alberta’s J.W. Scott Health Sciences Library. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on information literacy and e-collections. Sandy is a member the Library Association of Alberta, CHLA, CLA, and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association.↑ Back to top

Trish Chatterley is a Public Services Librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, and liaison to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is currently serving as Past President of NAHLA. Her research interests include expert searching and evidence-based librarianship.↑ Back to top

Po-Lin Cheung-Leung is a Certified Information & Referral Specialist. She has extensive experience in public and special libraries. She provides reliable consumer health information and ensures quality services at the Patient and Family Library in the Toronto Western Hospital for the past 10 years. She also maintains the Patient Education Network Website.↑ Back to top

Mary Chipanshi MLS, AHIP, is a Client Services Librarian for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. Mary is actively involved in reference, research, and instructional services in the context of evidence-based practice to hospital physicians, interns, nurses and employees of the Region. She is currently co-chair of the Saskatchewan Health Information Resource Partnership (SHIRP).↑ Back to top

Monique Clar est bibliothécaire de référence à la Bibliothèque de la santé de l’Université de Montréal. Elle détient une maîtrise en sciences de l’information de l’Université McGill et un diplôme de premier cycle en sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal.↑ Back to top

James Conklin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University. His research focuses on knowledge exchange, situated learning, and the generation and movement of new knowledge through social networks. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Canadian Evaluation Society.↑ Back to top

Heather Cunningham is a reference and research librarian within the Gerstein Science Information Centre of the University of Toronto. She holds an M.Sc.(environmental sciences) and an MLIS from McGill University. She provides reference and instruction, oversees the public equipment, and coordinates the Gerstein Library web page.↑ Back to top

Alexandra Davis is a librarian with The Ottawa Hospital. She is responsible for collection development and provides reference, instruction and research consultation services to all hospital staff. She holds a MLIS degree from McGill University.↑ Back to top

Lisa Demczuk BA, MA, MLS is the librarian at Victoria General Hospital, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries.↑ Back to top

Vinita D’Souza is a research professional with the Information Technology Primary Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal.↑ Back to top

Vicky Duncan has been the Nursing and Nutrition Liaison Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan for the past 8 years. Prior to that, she worked in various hospital libraries in her home province of Ontario. She is currently on a one year research sabbatical.↑ Back to top

Marina Englesakis, BA (Hons), MLIS. (Information Specialist for Medical Education, Neurosciences, & Surgical Services, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario.) Marina graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Master of Library and Information Science in 1987. She has managed college libraries, and town and hospital archives in Alberta and Ontario. She has worked in the health care libraries for the last 20 years and thrives in learning environments. Marina loves teaching – she has taught University of Toronto medical students, residents, and UHN staff – and has participated on several occasions as a Librarian-Tutor at the annual Evidence-based Clinical Practice program at McMaster University. She has risen to the challenge of being the Clinical Surgical Librarian to the General Surgery Quality of Care Rounds since 2006. A career highlight was her participation in the systematic review:  “Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions” BMJ, 2004, with Dr. Gunther Eysenbach.↑ Back to top

Kelly Farrah is an Information Specialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa. She conducts literature searches supporting health technology assessments and systematic reviews on drugs and other health technologies. Kelly received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.↑ Back to top

Sue Fahey received her MLIS from McGill in 1997 and has worked at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 2000. In addition to reference, collecting, teaching, and technical services, Sue’s research interests include web design and usability and evidence based librarianship.↑ Back to top

Robin Featherstone, BA, MLIS, is Clinical Medicine Librarian to the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario. She accepted this position one year ago and was previously the librarian to the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western. Robin was a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow (2006-2008) where she completed a second year residency at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. She received her MLIS from Dalhousie where she also interned at the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library. Robin pursues research interests in the areas of disaster information, methods of web-based instruction, and management of electronic collections.↑ Back to top

Jan Figurski, MLS, is the Coordinator for the SHRTN Library Service at Baycrest in Toronto. He is a recipient of the Ontario Hospital Library Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publications include: The Hospital Copyright Toolkit (OHA, 2007).↑ Back to top

Tom Flemming worked in academic health sciences libraries at Dalhousie University and at McMaster University for over 30 years before retiring in 2008. He is a lifetime member of CHLA/ABSC who continues to dabble in professional issues and to collect health related links at: http://delicious.com/tomflem ↑ Back to top

Francesca Frati is Instruction Librarian and Patient Information Specialist at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) Health Sciences Library in Montreal, QC. She also works as the Patient Education Coordinator at the JGH Herzl Family Practice Centre, where she has implemented an innovative patient health information service at point of care.↑ Back to top

Shannon Gordon received her MLIS from UWO in 2006, and has worked on The Rock ever since. In addition to reference, collecting and teaching, Shannon’s research interests include open access, discovery layers, federated searching, and Millennial librarians.↑ Back to top

Roland Grad is a family doctor and associate professor at McGill University. He started clinical practice in 1986, and later obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McMaster University. His research is to develop and validate the Information Assessment Method is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.↑ Back to top

Vera Granikov is an emerging information and knowledge management professional. She coordinates research projects in knowledge translation and patient satisfaction. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from McGill University. She is interested in knowledge transfer, collaborative learning, health information literacy, and Web 2.0 applications.↑ Back to top

Devon Greyson, MLIS, is the Information Specialist at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research in Vancouver, current President of the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia, and founding convenor of the CHLA/ABSC Open Access Interest Group.↑ Back to top

Margaret B. Harrison RN, PhD, Professor, School of Nursing and Dept. Community Health & Epidemiology, Queen’s University; Senior Scientist/Founding Member of Practice & Research (PRN) Group; Director of the Queen’s Joanna Briggs Collaboration, 1st North American partner of the Joanna Briggs Institute, a sister organization to Cochrane (JBI funded for 5 yr by CIHR). Research program: continuity of care for complex health populations & evidence-based practice. Planned Contribution / Key Role to the Project: Time Commitment: CHoCS Biography Template-final.doc ↑ Back to top

Jim Henderson is Liaison Librarian, Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre, McGill University. Previously, he was responsible for the Life Sciences and Osler Libraries. He is on the CVHL Task Force, a co-investigator on the CIHR application, and recipient of the CHLA-ABSC Award of Outstanding Achievement for work introducing DOCLINE into Canada.↑ Back to top

Mary Anne Howse is Manager of Library Services at Women’s College Hospital. She has worked in consumer health field for almost 20 years. She has been Co-Chair of the Consumer Health Information Provider’s Interest Group (CHIPIG) since 2007.↑ Back to top

Janique Johnson-Lafleur holds a Master’s degree in critical anthropology and has worked as a qualitative research assistant in health and social sciences over the last years. Employing mixed methods and participatory approaches to research, her current work concerns the impact of information derived from electronic knowledge resources on health professionals.↑ Back to top

Sam Kalb is Library Assessment and Scholarly Communications Services Coordinator at Queen’s University, after many years as a technical services administrator. He led the development of Queen’s Scholarly Communication Services including QSpace, the Queen’s institutional repository, and OJS @ Queen’s, a journal publishing service.↑ Back to top

Rita Kang is the Manager of Patient Education and the Patient and Family Library at the Toronto Western Hospital. She is a Registered Social Worker and has a Master of Education degree in Organizational Development and Adult Learning. Rita provides leadership to patient education initiatives and provides consultation in the areas of learning needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation.↑ Back to top

David Kaunelis is the Information Services methods specialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa. He has published and presented on database search strategies and database design. David holds an MLIS from Dalhousie University.↑ Back to top

Lorie Kloda, MLIS, PhD (candidate) is a librarian at the McGill Life Sciences Library. Her interests include the information needs of health professionals, expert searching for systematic reviews, and evidence-based practice. Lorie is also Associate Editor of the journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.↑ Back to top

Marion Lapham is the archivist of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) in Ottawa. Marion has been involved with the SOGC archives as a placement student, a part-time archival assistant, and now as the Archivist and Coordinator of the Archives and History Committee.↑ Back to top

Erica Lee has held the position of Librarian at the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) since 2003 following the completion of her Master of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. Erica is currently the secretary of the Consumer Health Information Provider's Interest Group.↑ Back to top

Shannon Long is a Librarian for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority working out of the Richmond Hospital. She studied psychology and archaeology at SFU, and obtained her MLIS from UBC in 1999. Shannon served on the board of directors for HLABC from 2000-2006 and is presently Treasurer for CHLA.↑ Back to top

Christopher Lyons, MA, Dip Ed, MLIS, is a Liaison Librarian at McGill University’ s Osler Library of the History of Medicine and is responsible for instruction, collection development and digitisation. He has written on the Osler Library, library history and Canadian medical history and is editor of The Watermark.↑ Back to top

Lily Mac is the Community Information Librarian at the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT). She is responsible for supporting library users, maintaining library services, developing and updating referral tools, and distributing resources. She is currently the President of the CASLIS Toronto Chapter for the 2009-2010 program year.↑ Back to top

Bernard Marlow is director of Continuing Professional Development at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the national organization mandated to promote lifelong learning among family physicians.↑ Back to top

Allison McArthur is a soon-to-be graduate of the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto. In her current role as an Information Specialist for the Public Health Planning and Implementation Branch of the Public Health Division at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Allison provides research and publishing support to facilitate evidence-informed public health policy and program development at the provincial level.↑ Back to top

Jessica McEwan assumed the role of Medical Librarian at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in July 2009, a satellite library of the University of Ottawa. She works with both the research and clinical wings of the institute. Jessica holds an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.↑ Back to top

Jessie McGowan, MLIS, PhD, has over sixteen years experience working with health libraries and medical informatics. Before joining the Institute of Population Health (IPH) at the University of Ottawa, she was a director at The Ottawa Hospital. She presently works with IPH from a distance and provides consulting services in Toronto. (See also her CE instructor bio) ↑ Back to top

Sandra McKeown is a Clinical Librarian at London Health Sciences Centre working primarily with mental health services, clinical support services, information technology services, and strategy and performance.↑ Back to top

Marg Muir works at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga in consumer health. Marg has over thirty-five years experience in the health care sector coupled with an academic background in nursing, health promotion and library science. She has worked in government, hospital and community.↑ Back to top

Angela Osterreicher BSc, MLS is the librarian at the J.W. Crane Memorial Library, Deer Lodge Centre, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries.↑ Back to top

Beata Pach is an Information Specialist for the Public Health Planning and Implementation Branch of the Public Health Division at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Prior to taking on this role, Beata provided information services to the York Region Health Services Department. Her most recent professional focus was directed at supporting the OPHS development team.↑ Back to top

Dr. Stephen Pang is professor and former head of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Queen’s University. In 2000, Dr. Pang and his colleagues developed an internet-accessible resource called Gross Anatomy and Histology Image Catalogue (GAHIC) and used it to support Anatomy and Histology teaching and learning.↑ Back to top

Pierre Pluye, MD, PhD, is CIHR New Investigator and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal). He has expertise in mixed methods studies and mixed studies reviews. He studies the application of information derived from electronic knowledge resources, and has co-developed the Information Assessment Method (http://iam2009.pbworks.com).↑ Back to top

Susan Powelson, B Comm in Accounting (Alberta), MLS (Dalhousie) is Director the of University of Calgary Health Sciences Library. Susan has worked at the University of Alberta, the Alberta Justice Provincial Court Libraries, and was the Library Director for the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, 1998-2008. In 2004, Susan received a Saskatchewan Healthcare Excellence Award and in 2006 she was named Canadian Hospital Librarian of the Year.↑ Back to top

Elizabeth Puckering is a reference librarian with the Mississauga Library System. She works in the Sciences & Business Department of the Mississauga Central Library which features a strong consumer health collection.↑ Back to top

Valeria Raivich, MLIS, is a Patient Education Librarian at Toronto Western Hospital. With 13 years of experience in special libraries, Valeria provides Library services for Hospital patients and community for the past 5 years and actively involved in a variety of patient education projects and health literacy promotion.↑ Back to top

Melissa Raynard BA, MLIS is the librarian at Concordia Hospital, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries.↑ Back to top

Renee Reaume is the Head, Health Information Network, Calgary Region. The HINC is a strategic partnership between the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services to provide library services and access to the latest evidence-based medical research to Alberta Health Services staff working in the Calgary zone, and to patients and their families.↑ Back to top

Helen Lee Robertson served several roles with the Health Sciences Library at the University of Calgary since 1998, including collections responsibilities in medicine and nursing.↑ Back to top

Katherine Schilling, MLS, Ed.D. is a professor at the Indiana University School of Library & Information Science in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her background is in academic health sciences librarianship, with expertise in web-based information portals for healthcare professionals and consumers, specifically in the areas of HIV/AIDS and behavioral oncology.↑ Back to top

Melissa Severn is an Information Specialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa. She conducts literature searches in support of systematic reviews and health technology assessments. Melissa graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies.↑ Back to top

Christine Shaw-Daigle BA, MLS is the librarian at the Carolyn Sifton Helene Fuld Library, St. Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries.↑ Back to top

Risa Shorr is a librarian with The Ottawa Hospital. She is the systems librarian and provides reference, instruction and research consultation services to all hospital staff. She has a MLIS degree from the University of Western Ontario.↑ Back to top

Dace Starr is a librarian at the Richmond Public Library working on special projects. With over 30 years of experience in libraries across the country her greatest satisfaction is working with other community groups to find interesting ways to share the joy of literacy.↑ Back to top

Dale Storie is Public Services Librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. He is liaison to Medicine and the School of Public Health. His general area of interest is in the implementation of new information technologies in library services and instruction.↑ Back to top

Soleil Surette is a research librarian and education lead at the CARE Program in the Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Alberta. She is still new enough to find most aspects of librarianship potentially interesting and so has difficulty narrowing her research interests.↑ Back to top

Lee-Anne Ufholz (BSc, MLIS Western) is the inaugural candidate to fill the Health Sciences Research Liaison Librarian position at the University of Ottawa. She works primarily with researchers from the Faculty of Medicine. Previous to joining the uOttawa Health Sciences Library in June 2008, she worked for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse as an information specialist.↑ Back to top

Jami Van Haaften (M.L.S. University of Michigan, 1979) started in the library of the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Program in 1995. Since 2003 she has been responsible for Health Sciences Library Services at the Sudbury Regional Hospital. Jami currently serves on the executive of the Ontario Health Libraries Association as Media Coordinator - Newsline.↑ Back to top

Miu Lin Wong has been a Community Health Educator at Toronto Western Hospital since 2002. Through internal and external partnership, she develops effective patient education programs adopting adult education community health principles. She is a Registered Social Service Worker and obtained a Master of Education degree in University of Toronto.↑ Back to top

Shu Zhang was a research professional in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, Montreal.↑ Back to top