 | CHLA/ABSC 2011 | Calgary, ABMay 26-30, 2011 |
Authors
Contributed Papers, Posters and STAT!Talks authors/presenters:
Aliki Thomas, PhD candidate, MEd, OT (c), erg.
Aliki Thomas is a faculty member at the school of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University where she teaches in both the undergraduate and Master’s portion of the Occupational Therapy curriculum. Her research is in the area of health sciences education with a focus on teaching and learning in occupational therapy. She conducts research from an educational psychology perspective. Aliki is interested in teaching and learning in complex areas of occupational therapy such as evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, curriculum design and assessment of reasoning and problem solving in complex and ill-defined areas of practice.
Amanda Hodgson received her MLIS from McGill University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is currently a Manager in the Information Services department at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa. Prior to CADTH, she was employed as a reference librarian at the Science Library Network, Health Canada. Email: amandah@cadth.ca
Poster: CADTH peer review checklist: Enhancing the review and evaluation of the quality of search strategies
André obtained his BSc in Wildlife Biology at McGill University in Montreal and worked in wildlife research with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service until he began managing and working at a mixed veterinary practice in North Dakota. He subsequently worked in a veterinary lab, and in 2005 obtained his Masters in Library Science from the University of Rhode Island. He began working that year as the head of the Veterinary Library at the University of Minnesota, where he also has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. His current research interests include veterinary informatics and open-access.
Paper: Opening New Doors: Marketing Librarianship Through a Guest Editorship with Medical Journals
Andrea McLellan is the Head of Collections and Technical Services in the Health Sciences Library, McMaster University, and also the liaison librarian for the School of Medicine. She provides sessions on evidence-based clinical practice resources to medical students, residents, and faculty and supports research initiatives in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Andrea is completing a masters degree in Health Research Methodology, and her primary area of research interest is knowledge translation.
Paper: Undergraduate Research Consultations: What’s really going on?
Angela Hamilton is a science librarian at York University. As a liaison for the faculties of nursing and biology she has explored how technology can be used to supplement and enhance her teaching experiences. Angela also believes that personal technology shapes the way that students understand and access information.
STAT!Talk: The Digital Petting Zoo: Loaning Out Consumer Electronics
Ashley Farrell received her Masters of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario in 2009 and has been working as a client services librarian at the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region since January 2010. Her duties include providing reference services and instruction to the health professionals in the region and working as a liaison librarian to physicians, pharmacists, and acute care nurses. She volunteers for the Saskatchewan Library Association, currently serving on SLA’s Nominating and Elections Committee. Ashley has presented a session on using LibGuides at the Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association meeting. She will be presenting the details of a course she helped to design and implement, targeting back-to-school nurses.
STAT!Talk: Helping Transform Nurses into Researchers
Brettany Johnson is a librarian and project manager at the Centre for Health Evidence, and a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. She has experience working in various health education contexts. Her research interests include workplace learning, online curriculum design, information literacy, and knowledge translation.
Caitlyn Ford is a CADTH information specialist, and holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario (2009), and worked with Health Canada and an academic library. Her primary areas of interest are within health and science librarianship, including consumer health, and public health topics.
Carol Friesen (MA, MLIS) is the Manitoba Health Outreach Librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, and an Assistant Librarian with the University of Manitoba. Carol has also worked as a Research Librarian with the Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence in Edmonton, where she conducted searches for systematic reviews and presented a poster on the effectiveness of searching for grey literature at the 2005 Cochrane Colloquium in Melbourne, Australia.
Poster: Evolving and transforming a current awareness service for outreach clients in Manitoba
Catherine Boden received her MLIS and PhD from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has been working as a Health Science Liaison Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan since 2009. Her areas of responsibility include Clinical Medicine, Physical Therapy and Kinesiology.
Paper: Interprofessional Collaboration in Distance Education: the Transforming Landscape of Learning
Christina Woodward is Librarian for Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. In addition to library management and service provision, she participates on the portal redesign group, in development of an MD program at Trillium, and on the Research Ethics Board. Her degrees include: MLIS, University of Western Ontario and MA (History), Rhodes University. cwoodward@thc.on.ca
Poster: Drilling down to outcomes: Evolving in the midst of change
Colleen Cunningham, MA, is a research coordinator focusing on pharmaceutical policy research at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia.
Poster: Information seeking experiences of Canadian pharmaceutical policy makers
Connie Bolding is the Child Health Information Specialist in the Family & Community Resource Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Her interests include health literacy and knowledge acquisition from a family centered care approach to help empower families to make informed decisions and advocate regarding their health care. She offers training for parents, staff and service providers on finding health information on the Internet.
Poster: Evolving our services: Creating partnerships to provide information to practitioners and to families
Dale Storie is Public Services Librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. He is a member of CHLA, and has previously published or presented on blogging, gaming, information literacy, and digital preservation. He is interested generally in the application of new technologies to library services and instruction.
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
CE Instructor: Developing mobile services for health libraries: trends & tools
Daniel Hooker is a researcher at the eHealth Strategy Office in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. His work encompasses grant facilitation and project development related to mobile devices, electronic communities of practice, and social media. He has a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Poster: New roles, same skills: Exploring paths to health sciences research careers after library school
Dean Giustini is a reference librarian at UBC's Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital. As an "early adopter" of social media, he authors a blog, maintains a wiki and uses Twitter regularly. Dean is an editor at Open Medicine, and was recently asked to be on the editorial board for the Canadian Pharmacy Journal.
Deb has worked for hospital and research organizations since 1989. Since 2003, she has offered contract/consulting services to a variety of provincial organizations, focusing on knowledge management, developing innovative services, and training. She is contract clinical librarian for the Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia, where she works closely with Alison Hoens, Knowledge Broker, Suzanne Geba, former Technology Lead, Jesse Royer, Member Services Manager, and Rebecca Bing-Tunnacliffe, CEO, to meet the information needs of physiotherapists in BC.
Denise Koufogiannakis, MA, MLIS
Denise Koufogiannakis is Collections and Acquisitions Coordinator at the University of Alberta Libraries. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, which she co-founded in 2006.
Paper: Health Sciences Library and Information Research: What Can We Learn from the Research?
Devon Greyson is the Information Specialist at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research in Vancouver. Devon teaches about gender, health, information and public policy at Capilano University and the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information studies and writes for the Social Justice Librarian blog.
Paper: Research-Embedded Health Librarians – the Canadian Landscape
Poster: Information seeking experiences of Canadian pharmaceutical policy makers
Poster: New roles, same skills: Exploring paths to health sciences research careers after library school
Dorothy McLachlan is the Consumer Health Information Specialist with Alberta Health Services. She has 3 years experience providing public education and information sessions on Consumer Health related issues and Health Literacy. Prior to joining AHS, Dorothy was a public educator on Criminal Justice related issues for 5 years. She coordinates the four (4) Health Information Resource Centres within Central Zone from her office within Red Deer Regional Hospital.
Poster: Health information literacy in the community: Using partnerships to target at risk groups
Douglas Salzwedel is the Trials Search Coordinator for the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group at the University of British Columbia. He obtained a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario in 2001 and has extensive experience in developing, performing and appraising literature searches for systematic reviews.
Poster: New roles, same skills: Exploring paths to health sciences research careers after library school
Edward Bilodeau is the Web Services Librarian at McGill University. He has extensive experience in both in academia as well as the private sector, primarily in the areas of web strategy, information architecture, web development, and site operations.
Paper: Creating a mobile subject guide to deliver point-of-care resources to medical students
A medical librarian and consumer health specialist, Elisheba Muturi develops and delivers consumer education programs to promote medication safety and evidence-based drug therapy. She engages community partners to promote health literacy. Her current interest is to integrate social media tools and other technologies in educational strategies within the government framework.
Poster: New roles, same skills: Exploring paths to health sciences research careers after library school
Elizabeth Aitken, MLIS, has been the Rockyview General Hospital Librarian with the Health Information Network in Calgary for five years. She previously managed library services for the Calgary Health Region following positions as a public health librarian in Calgary and Ottawa.
Poster: Creating a collaborative partnership between the University of Calgary, AHS Calgary Zone and the Calgary Public Library to support local health literacy initiatives
Elizabeth Stregger is a library assistant at the Neil John Macelan Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba. She has a Library and Information Technology Diploma (Red River College), a BSc in Physical Sciences (McMaster), and a BSc in Geoscience (McMaster). Elizabeth serves on the executives of the Manitoba Association of Library Technicians, and the Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers.
Poster: Evolving and transforming a current awareness service for outreach clients in Manitoba
Erin Watson has been working as a liaison librarian at the University of Saskatchewan Health Sciences Library since 2001. The research presented in this talk is part of her sabbatical project.
STAT!Talk: Leisure Reading Collections in Academic Health Sciences Libraries
Gabriel Boldt, BA, MScEd, MLIS
Gabe is a clinical librarian working at the London Regional Cancer Program. He received his MLIS from The University of Western Ontario in 2007, and now primarily focuses his activities on cancer related research in experimental, radiation and medical oncology. He is currently the president of the Southwestern Ontario Health Libraries Information Network (SOHLIN), a local chapter of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC)."
Paper: Provision of Pandemic Information by Health Sciences Librarians: A Multi-Site Comparative Case Study
Heather Ganshorn has a BA in journalism and an MLIS. She has been a medical librarian with the University of Calgary and the Health Information Network Calgary. She has worked as a librarian in the areas of kinesiology, nursing, medicine, pediatrics and cancer care.
STAT!Talk: Nothing is Certain: The Role of a Cancer Library in Patients’ Uncertainty Management
Helen Yueping He has been with the Dentistry Library since 2005. She was appointed as the Head of the Dentistry Library in Oct. 2007. Helen completed her Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Western Ontario in 2004.
Poster: Sustaining our curriculum; evolving our role as librarians; transforming our collection: a collection inventory tale
Paper: Opening New Doors: Marketing Librarianship Through a Guest Editorship with Medical Journals
Jeff Mason is a hospital-based librarian providing evidence-based services and instruction to faculty and students in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Since 2009 Jeff has taught critical appraisal skills to medical librarians from across North America at Dartmouth College's Supporting Clinical Care: An Institute in Evidence-Based Practice for Medical Librarians three-day workshop. Jeff has also participated as librarian faculty at McMaster University's week-long EBCP workshop. In recognition of his work in Regina, Jeff was presented with the 2009 Canadian Health Libraries Association Emerging Leader Award.
STAT!Talk: The Evolving Mobile Needs of Hospital Library Users
CE Instructor: Supporting Evidence-Based Clinical Practice: Appraising Therapy Studies
Jennifer Lee is a liaison librarian for chemistry, mathematics / statistics, environmental design (urban design, environmental science) and computer science at the University of Calgary.
STAT!Talk: Using Social Media in Conference Planning
Jennifer McKinnell works as the Head of Public Services in the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University and has served as the Liaison Librarian to the Bachelor of health Sciences Program (BHSc) since 2000. The BHSc program provides a self directed environment in which the students define their own learning goals and opportunities. As a result, Jennifer's work is both rewarding and challenging as she focuses on the incorporation of information seeking, evaluation and use skills into an evolving and exciting curriculum. Jennifer is also interesting in the role enhanced library services can play in active student learning and efficient library use.
Paper: Undergraduate Research Consultations: What’s really going on?
Jessie Cunningham is a CADTH information specialist. She completed her Master of Information Studies at the University of Toronto (2007), and previously worked with the Ontario government, as well as in academic libraries. Some of her areas of interest include: consumer health, health literacy, and the social determinants of health.
Jill Boruff is a Liaison Librarian in the Life Sciences Library at McGill University where she has worked since 2007. She is responsible for Undergraduate Medicine, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Orthopaedics, Diagnostic Radiology and the Consumer Health collection. One of her main interests is information literacy competencies in the education of health professionals.
Paper: Creating a mobile subject guide to deliver point-of-care resources to medical students
Jim Henderson has been at McGill since 2002 and is currently a liaison librarian in the Life Sciences Library. Most of his career was spent in Vancouver at UBC and the library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. As well as his work towards a national network of health libraries, now coming forth as the Canadian Virtual Health Library / Bibliothèque virtuelle canadienne de la santé, current interests include information resources for health geography, global health, aboriginal health and substance abuse and improving communication between clinicians and patients through the use of quality, understandable health information as well as knowledge translation, the topic of his paper.
Kathryn Ranjit is the librarian manager of the Peter Lougheed Knowledge Centre with the Health Information Network Calgary. She completed her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in 2008. Her areas of interest include web development, online reference and health literacy.
Poster: Creating a collaborative partnership between the University of Calgary, AHS Calgary Zone and the Calgary Public Library to support local health literacy initiatives
STAT!Talk: Bridging access to library resources for patients
STAT!Talk: Using Social Media in Conference Planning
Katrine Mallan is a collection development librarian at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. She obtained her Master of Library and Information Studies from McGill University in 2006.
Paper: Health Sciences Library and Information Research: What Can We Learn from the Research?
Laura Banfield is the liaison librarian for the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Global Health at McMaster University. She provides instruction and support to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and researchers. Laura also holds a clinical faculty appointment in the School of Nursing where she has tutored courses in international health, critical appraisal and research methods, and guided research. Her research interests include circumpolar health and wellbeing, the role of information literacy in entry to practice competencies of new graduates, and evidence based practice.
Paper: Undergraduate Research Consultations: What’s really going on?
Linda Seale is Collections Manager at the John W Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta and a member of the Canadian Health Libraries Association.
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
Liz Dennett BSc, MLIS 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, health technology assessment, and research embedded health librarians.
Paper: Research-Embedded Health Librarians – the Canadian Landscape
Poster: Use of validated search filters in systematic reviews of prognostic studies
Liza Chan is Research Librarian cross-appointed at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions. She is a member of Canadian Health Libraries Association and Medical Library Association.
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
Lorie Kloda, MLIS, AHIP, PhD(c)
Lorie Kloda 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.
Paper: Health Sciences Library and Information Research: What Can We Learn from the Research?
Louis Chor is East Asia Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries. Educated in Hong Kong and Canada, he has worked for East Asian library collections in both places. Among his interests is the online presentation of Chinese characters.
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
Maria joined the Dentistry Library in 2008. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies (2004) from the University of Waterloo and a MISt (2007) from the University of Toronto. Her current interests include curriculum embedded information literacy and access to e-collections.
Maria C. Tan is an MLIS candidate at the University of Alberta, and the recipient of the 2010 Medical Library Association Minority Student Scholarship. Prior to entering library and information studies, Maria was an occupational therapist in geriatric rehabilitation and a content coordinator for the Canadian Health Network. She is a student representative on the executive of the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Association. Her interests include understanding how people use digital technologies to facilitate health decision-making. In her spare time, Maria enjoys visiting libraries in other parts of the world.
Marlene Dorgan is Head of the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta and is currently Past President of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC).
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
Mary-Doug Wright, a consulting information specialist with 20 years experience, specializes in research and synthesis reports in health and social services. Collaborating with researchers, analysts and decision-makers in academia and the public/private sectors, she conducts environmental scans and comprehensive literature searches for systematic reviews and health technology assessments.
Poster: New roles, same skills: Exploring paths to health sciences research careers after library school
Mê-Linh Lê, MA, MLIS is the Liaison Librarian for the School of Public Health and the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan Health Sciences Library. Prior to that she worked at the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health and UBC’s Faculty of Medicine.
Poster: The information needs of Canada’s National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
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. Email: melissas@cadth.ca
Poster: CADTH peer review checklist: Enhancing the review and evaluation of the quality of search strategies
Monika Mierzwinski-Urban is an Information Secialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in Ottawa. She conducts literature searches in support of systematic review and health technology assessments. Monika holds an MLIS from University of Western Ontario. Email: monikam@cadth.ca
Poster: CADTH peer review checklist: Enhancing the review and evaluation of the quality of search strategies
Monique Clar est bibliothécaire de référence à la Bibliothèque de la santé de l’Université de Montréal. Elle est responsable du développement des collections en médecine et compte de nombreuses années d'expérience en formation et recherche documentaires. Elle détient une maîtrise en sciences de l’information de l’Université McGill et un diplôme de premier cycle en sciences biologiques.
Monique Clar is a biomedical librarian within the Bibliothèque de la santé of the Université de Montréal. She is responsible for collection development in medicine and provides reference, instruction and research consultation services. She holds a MLIS degree from McGill University and a BSc degree in Biological sciences.
Nancy MacKenzie, MLIS, is the East Sector Manager of Calgary Public Library. She is working towards making the Calgary Public Library a place where all Calgarians can go to access timely, reliable health information.
Poster: Creating a collaborative partnership between the University of Calgary, AHS Calgary Zone and the Calgary Public Library to support local health literacy initiatives
STAT!Talk: Bridging access to library resources for patients
Natalie Clairoux obtained her Master of Information Science degree from Université de Montréal in April 2008. She holds a biomedical librarian position at the Health Library of the same institution since August 2008. Her duties include reference services, information literacy workshops and Web site coordination. In a previous life, Natalie worked as a research assistant in various academic labs, specialized in molecular microbiology. She detains B.Sc. (McGill 1990) and M.Sc. (Laval 1992) diplomas in Microbiology and Immunology.
Natalie Clairoux a terminé en avril 2008 sa maîtrise en sciences de l’information à l’Université de Montréal. Elle détient un poste de bibliothécaire biomédicale à la Bibliothèque de la santé de cette même institution depuis août 2008. Ses responsabilités incluent la référence, la formation à la recherche dans les bases de données médicales et la coordination du site Web des bibliothèques du secteur santé. Dans une vie antérieure, Natalie a travaillé comme assistante de recherche dans plusieurs laboratoires universitaires spécialisés en microbiologie moléculaire. Elle a obtenu des diplômes de B.Sc. (McGill 1990) et M. Sc. (Laval 1992) en microbiologie-immunologie.
Paper: How to build a bioinformatics service in a year
Nazi is Research and Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Western Ontario.
Paper: Provision of Pandemic Information by Health Sciences Librarians: A Multi-Site Comparative Case Study
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.
Orvie Dingwall (BA, MLIS) is the Outreach Services Librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library and the University of Manitoba, and provides library services to health care providers in Manitoba’s Regional Health Authorities. She is President of CHLA/ABSC and is passionate about pan-Canadian collaboration, evidence-informed decision making, providing access to information, and patient safety.
Poster: Evolving and transforming a current awareness service for outreach clients in Manitoba
Penka Stoyanova is the health sciences librarian at Credit Valley Hospital. Mississauga, Ontario. In her role she supports the information needs of medical, nursing, allied health professionals, administration, researchers and community members by ensuring access to current and relevant resources. She has a Master in Information Studies degree from the University of Toronto. pstoyanova@cvh.on.ca
Poster: Drilling down to outcomes: Evolving in the midst of change
Rajiv is a Science Librarian at Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University. He has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York (2003) and later completed the Masters program in Information Studies from University of Toronto in 2007. He is currently working on projects related to e-books and mobile devices, reference management tools for graduate research and open access publishing. He has presented a paper on Open Access (OA) Publishing at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in 2010. He recently presented results on OA funding policies and CARL member responses at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference in 2011. His publications and conference presentations are available from this link: http://www.yorku.ca/rajivn.
Paper: Redefining Roles of Academic Librarians: Participating in the Research Intensification Process
Renee Reaume is the Head, Health Information Network Calgary Area. The Health Information Network is a strategic partnership between the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services. The Network was created in 2005 and has Knowledge Centres established at 5 locations as well as one touchdown suite. From those Centres, and from the University of Calgary Health Sciences Library, the University provides health information services to all Calgary area staff and clients and for cancer care in southern Alberta.
Poster: Creating a collaborative partnership between the University of Calgary, AHS Calgary Zone and the Calgary Public Library to support local health literacy initiatives
STAT!Talk: Bridging access to library resources for patients
Robert Hayward is Assistant Dean, Health Informatics, of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, and Director of the Centre for Health Evidence. He is involved in the development and management of virtual learning and research communities to support evidence-based practice.
Robin is the Medical Librarian at Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre.
Paper: Provision of Pandemic Information by Health Sciences Librarians: A Multi-Site Comparative Case Study
Sandy Campbell is Public Services Librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. She is a member of the Library Association of Alberta, the Canadian Library Association, the Canadian Health Libraries Association, and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association. Sandy has published and presented on subjects related to library instruction and digital library services.
Poster: Traditional and Indigenous healing collection at the University of Alberta
Poster: Creating a collaborative partnership between the University of Calgary, AHS Calgary Zone and the Calgary Public Library to support local health literacy initiatives
STAT!Talk: Bridging access to library resources for patients
Shauna-Lee Konrad is a Clinical Librarian for the London Health Sciences Centre. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's MLIS program and holds a B.A. in French from the University of Waterloo and a B.Ed. from Brock University. Shauna-Lee is involved in the health library community nationally through her role as secretary of the CHLA/ABSC Board of Directors, and locally, where she serves as Vice President of the Southwestern Ontario Health Library Information Network. Prior to obtaining her MLIS, she worked for the York Region District School Board as an intermediate French immersion teacher.
Paper: Provision of Pandemic Information by Health Sciences Librarians: A Multi-Site Comparative Case Study
Shelagh K. Genuis will convocate in June 2011 with an Interdisciplinary PhD from the School of Library and Information Studies and the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. The 2010 recipient of the Medical Library Association´s Thomson Reuters/MLA Doctoral Fellowship, her research interests include: information behaviour, particularly with respect to health information; knowledge translation; information literacy, and information retrieval. Shelagh's dissertation, Making Sense of Evolving Health Information: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Life, explores how women respond to, make sense of, and use (or do not use) evolving health information mediated by a range of formal and informal sources, and how health professionals perceive their roles and act as information providers within this context.
Sherri Vokey is the Health Sciences Centre Librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, and an Assistant Librarian with the University of Manitoba. Before moving to her current position at the NJMHSL, she held positions as an academic librarian at the University of Winnipeg, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Toronto. Sherri was the lead instructor in the Library & Information Technology Program at Red River
Soleil Surette is a research librarian for the CARE Program in Integrative Health and Healing at the University of Alberta in the department of Pediatrics. Her research interests vary, but they include evidence-based librarianship and research methodologies.
Paper: Bibliometrics, A Case Study: Science or Magic?
Paper: Research-Embedded Health Librarians – the Canadian Landscape
Poster: What can we learn from CHLA conference programs?
Stephen A. Hines, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Steve Morgan, PhD, is associate director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) and associate professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He is the team lead for the CIHR-funded Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration.
Poster: Information seeking experiences of Canadian pharmaceutical policy makers
Sue Bradley is a recent graduate of the MLIS program at UBC. She has a strong background in scientific research and is excited about embarking on a career in health sciences librarianship and knowledge translation. Sue was the winner of the 2010 Login Canada Student Paper Prize.
Susan has been Head of the University of Saskatchewan Health Sciences Library and Co-Chair of the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP) since July 2008. Her library career has included liaison librarian positions in the social sciences, sciences, and health sciences at the U of S, the University of Lethbridge, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, as well as staff training and development, library survey, and reference service coordination roles.
Paper: Interprofessional Collaboration in Distance Education: the Transforming Landscape of Learning
Tania is the Education Services Librarian at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library and an Associate Librarian with the University of Manitoba. She graduated from the University of Illinois where she received a Master of Science in Library and Information Science in 1986 and Master's of Education in 1987. She has held positions as an academic librarian at the University of Illinois (1987-1989), University of Idaho (1989-1997) and University of Manitoba (1997-Present). In her current position with the UM Health Sciences Libraries, she coordinates education and training initiatives related to information literacy in the health sciences. Tania has a thorough knowledge of databases and resources for retrieving evidence-based health information, and expertise in web page design and development.
Taryn Lenders has been a librarian with the Health Information Network Calgary since 2006. She is currently located at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. She completed her MLIS at the University of Western Ontario and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alberta.
Poster: Evolving our services: Creating partnerships to provide information to practitioners and to families
Teodora Constantinescu, MSc, MLIS
Teodora graduated from the McGill University Library and Information Studies Masters Program in 2006, making librarianship her third career after being an engineer in her native country, Romania, and, briefly, a science teacher in the UK. She has been the solo librarian at the Department of Psychiatry library of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal since 2008 and enjoys the variety of her work and the complexity of the field she is serving in.
STAT!Talk: A Librarian in an EBM Journal Club
Terry Ann Jankowski, MLS, AHIP
Terry Ann Jankowski is Head, Information & Education Services at the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Library. She is active in the Medical Library Association, most recently serving as the Co-Chair of the 2010 National Program Committee and Past-Chair of the Public Services Section. Ms. Jankowski has coauthored, written, and presented several articles, posters and classes on various aspects of database searching, reference services, and user education. She is the author of “The Medical Library Association’s Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher.” Teaching and database searching are her passions. She welcomes lively discussions on either topic.
STAT!Talk: Transforming Student Orientations – Letting Students Direct the Process
Thane Chambers is the Research Librarian for the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. She also holds a joint appointment with the JW Scott Health Sciences Library. Her research interests are instructional design, the interactions between consumers and health information, and bibliometrics.
Paper: Bibliometrics, A Case Study: Science or Magic?
Trina Fyfe is the librarian for the Medical and Health Sciences Programs at the University of Northern British Columbia. Trina has experience in both hospital and academic libraries. Research interests include exploring new opportunities for librarians in medical education.
Paper: Librarian Office Relocation Pilot: does office location impact student-librarian interaction?
Trish Chatterley is a Public Services Librarian at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. She is liaison librarian to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research interests include expert searching, evidence-based librarianship, and the history of medicine.
Paper: Bibliometrics, A Case Study: Science or Magic?
Paper: Research-Embedded Health Librarians – the Canadian Landscape
Paper: Research design and writing in the health sciences: A library guide to support academic research information needs
Poster: Use of validated search filters in systematic reviews of prognostic studies
Vicki Croft is head of Washington State University’s Animal Health Library, located in Pullman, Washington. Change has been an integral part of her career. She came to WSU in 1976 as head of the Veterinary Medical Library – renamed the Veterinary Medical /Pharmacy Library in 1980 and in 2000 as, the Health Sciences Library Prior to coming to WSU, she served as a science librarian at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She has a B.S. in Biology and a M.S.L.S. (University of Illinois), and is a tenured librarian at WSU, with the rank of Librarian 4. She is an active member of the Medical Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Chapter and the International Cooperation and Veterinary Medical Libraries Sections. She currently serves on the MLA 2013/11ICML/7ICAHIS/6 ICLC Planning Committee, as a representative of ICAHIS (the International Conference for Animal Health Information Specialists). She is a Distinguished Member of MLA’s Academy of Health Information Professionals.
Vivian McCallum is the Clinical Librarian at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children in Vancouver, BC. Vivian works closely with rehabilitation clinicians to incorporate evidence-based practices into their research and clinical work. Her research interests include evidence-based practice attainability, and tools for collaboration between the librarian and health professional.
STAT!Talk: Communication, Collaboration and Documentation in Systematic Reviews
Yongtao Lin has been a Health Information Network librarian, working at the Tom Baker Cancer Knowledge Centre since 2008. She provides library services to support health care professionals in their evidence-based practice. The library is also part of a provincial patient-centered education strategy that supports cancer patients and their families. She was a librarian with hospital libraries in rural Nova Scotia for a few years before working with the University of Calgary. Her prior experience being an instructor has led her to integrate education into various aspects of library programs. Yongtao is interested in the impact of grey literature in health care and a strong believer of evidence-based practice.
STAT!Talk: Nothing is Certain: The Role of a Cancer Library in Patients’ Uncertainty Management
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