MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION

ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession

The MIS website redesign was completed in August 2004 by the MIS webmaster, Nic Cecchino. MIS members have positively commented on new design.

The chair sent out an e-mail call for people interested in leadership positions in the section.  Through that mechanism, the following people have been named to leadership positions in the section:

• Bylaws Committee Chair, Colleen Cuddy
• Professional Development Liaison, Lisa K. Traditi
• Nominating Committee Chair, Nancy Allee

An election was successfully held. Our new officers are:

• Chair-elect 2005-06/Chair 2006-07: Kathy Kerdolff
• Section Council Representative-elect 2005-06/Section Council Representative 2006-08: Susan Lessick
• Secretary/Treasurer 2005-07: Colleen Cuddy

The Section is currently discussing ways to interest new MLA members in the section. Ideas include personal e-mails or calls to prospective members.

Goal 2: Life Long Learning

Our efforts this year have revolved around the MLA annual meeting programs.

Wallace McLendon, the section’s unofficial professional development project coordinator, regularly communicates through the listserv about technology trends.

Goal 3: Advocacy

The section continues to provide funding for the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant.Two awards of $1500 each can be given and the section fully funds these career development grants. The MIS/MLA Career Development Grant was awarded to Ruiling Guo, AHIP, Idaho Health Sciences Library, Idaho State University-Pocatello, and Christine F. Marton, College of Information Studies University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge

The programs for MLA 2005 are:

• Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics: Serving Diverse Information Needs for Clinical Practice and Research. Co-sponsored with Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, and Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG.

This session will be held on 5/17/2005 from 2:30 to 4. The panel includes Eileen H. Stanley (Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, Debra S. Ketchell, Kevin Messner of and Dihui Lu (University of North Carolina School of Library and Information Science).

• Medical Information Diversity: Results of an MLA Survey. Co-sponsored with Medical Library Education, and Technical Services Sections.

The survey that was composed by members of the Medical Informatics section in company with the Medical Library Education section and Technical Services section was up for 6 weeks, and has generated roughly 150 responses. The data were received after Thanksgiving. The survey team members (from all 3 sections) will be doing the analysis of the themes expressed in the narrative answers. Then this team will identify “Types of People Represented” in these Themes and work on inviting representatives of those Types to the 2005 meeting in San Antonio.

This session will be held on 5/18/2005 from 2:30 to 4. Our panel includes Nancy Roderer, Johns Hopkins (moderator), Catherine Arnott Smith, Syracuse University (presenting data from the survey), Linda Hogan (Mercy Health System, Pittsburgh), Douglas Joubert (NIH Library, Bethesda), Diane Wolf (Christiana Care, Wilmington, DE).

This session will be held on 5/16/2005 from 2:30 to 4. The panel includes David A. Nolfi (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Martha Szczur (National Library of Medicine), Diane Gelarden Cooper (National Library of Medicine), and Brenda Green (University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis).

Goal 5: Building a Network of Partners

Expanding the journal club participation internationally has not yet been accomplished. The MIS directory/portfolio section of the MIS website was promoted, but the actual participation was very limited. There are now 35 members that have filled out individual profiles for the directory.

Medical Informatics Section Board

• Nancy Allee, Nominating Committee Chair
• Nic Cecchino, Web site editor
• Colleen Cuddy, Bylaws Committee Chair
• Joan Gregory, Section Council Representative-Elect
• Taneya Koonce, Secretary/Treasurer
• Mike Kronenfeld, Membership Committee Chair
• Beth Layton, Chair
• Wallace McClendon, Professional Development Liaison
• Jean Sayre, Immediate Past Chair
• Brenda L. Seago, Governmental Relations Committee Liaison
• Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, Chair elect
• Lisa K. Traditi, Professional Development Liaison
• Patricia Weiss, Section Council Representative

Respectfully submitted, Beth Layton, Medical Informatics Section Chair.

Motion

This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.