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Past Grant Winners
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Karen M. Albert and Maureen Knapp |
Karen M. Albert, Director of Library
Services, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Phila., PA, will use the grant to pursue
additional coursework in the areas of research methods and clinical decision
support. She wants to study the benefits and usage of links to knowledge-based
resources from within the electronic health record and to conduct studies
that would demonstrate the value of bringing information resources to
the point of care. She also hopes to highlight the importance of librarian
participation in these activities.
Maureen "Molly"
Knapp, of the John
P. Ische Library, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New
Orleans, will use the MIS/MLA Career Development Grant to attend the Internet
Librarian meeting in Monterey, California in October. This grant will
allow her to expand her knowledge of emerging digital tools and trends
and their applications to medical informatics.She plans to share what
she learns with MLA members by live-blogging the event via the MLA Social
Networking Task Force blog.
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| 2007: None Awarded |
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| 2006: Ellen
Justice |
Ellen
Justice, Christiana Hospital Library, Christiana Care Health System,
Newark, DE, received both the Continuing Education Award and Medical Informatics
Section (MIS)/MLA Career Development Grant. The Continuing Education Award
provides monetary awards to MLA members to develop knowledge of the theoretical,
administrative, or technical aspects of librarianship. Established in 1996
by MIS, the MIS/MLA Career Development Grant supports an activity that will
contribute to medical informatics. Justice plans to use her grant to participate
in a workshop that will increase her level of expertise in evidence-based
medicine. |
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| 2005: Ruling
Guo and Christine Marton |
Ruiling Guo,
AHIP, Idaho Health Sciences Library, Idaho State University–Pocatello,
is one of two recipients of the grant. She will use her grant to create
a Web-based library instruction tutorial on the use of library resources
to support distance learning for students in Idaho.
Christine Marton, College of Information Studies, University of British
Columbia–Vancouver, Canada, plans to use her award to take courses
to further her education in medical informatics for teaching and research.
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| 2004: Margaret
Gorman and Sara Anne Hook |
Margaret Gorman,
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona–Tucson, is one of two
recipients of the grant. She plans to use her grant to create a thesaurus
to map frequently used medical terminology for the Arizona Cancer Institute.
Sara Anne Hook, School of Informatics, Indiana University–Indianapolis,
will use her grant to take two online courses to further her education in
health informatics. |
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| 2003: Marcy Brown and Mark
Vrabel |
Mark Vrabel is Librarian
for the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) where he assisted with Phase I of
the ONS Evidence-Based Practice Online Resource Center. He is enrolled in
the Certificate of Advanced Study in Medical Informatics at the University
of Pittsburgh. The award will be used to fund his time and expenses in an
informatics project at his institution—Phase II of the Online ONS Evidence-Based
Practice Resource Center—as part of a team combining Research and Online
Publishing with Mr. Vrabel’s information expertise to create a tool
that provides evidence to oncology nurses on which they can base their practice
improvements.
Marcy Brown is Medical Librarian at the Forbes Regional Hospital
in Monroeville, PA, where she serves on the facility Information Management
team, Physician Information Technology group. A member of the Medical Informatics
Section, Ms. Brown has served on the Health Information Advisory Board of
Medicine on the Net. She is currently pursuing a certificate in Public Health
Informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The grant would be
used to fund a course on Health Information and Decision Support Systems.
The information from this course would be used to expand her role in helping
her institution to integrate systems of knowledge-based information and
patient-specific clinical data systems. |
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| 2002: Mary
Linn Bergstrom and Marilyn Teolis |
Mary
Linn Bergstrom, Head
of Education and Outreach of the Biomedical Library, University of California–San
Diego (UCSD), was a 2002 award recipient. She has learned throughout her
career: MLA CE courses, workshops, seminars and regional and local conferences,
professional associations and institutional task forces. Informally she
learned a great deal during my tenure at UMass Memorial, where she reported
in Information Systems; working in this department at a point of intense
investment and growth in the enterprise information systems network created
many opportunities to build new skills.
A recipient of an NLM fellowship for the Medical Informatics Course at Marine
Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts (2001), she also attended
the 2001 AMIA conference and participated in AAMC Western Group on Medical
Education Computer Resources in Medical Education (CRIME) activities. I
plan to gain further knowledge in the field by taking an online course,
either an overview course or a course in clinical decision making from Stanford
University. When asked about how the grant will benefit her professional
development, she replied: I will also use this award toward attendance at
the 2002 AMIA conference in San Antonio TX, where I intend to maintain awareness
of the use of handheld devices in clinical informatics initiatives and to
follow current trends in the informatics field that are relevant to UCSD
School of Medicine and UCSD Healthcare.
Marilyn Teolis, AHIP, is Medical Librarian Coordinator of the Baptist
Hospital, Nashville, TN. Baptist Hospital library is part of network of
36 libraries participating in the University of Alabama Digital Libraries
and Advanced Web Site Navigation Lab (UA DLAWS Nav Lab). She attended the
teleconference about PDAs and CE courses about digital libraries, e-journals
etc.
Her plan for the grant was to buy two PDAs for the library and promote their
use among physicians and health professionals at Baptist Hospital. There
are two goals for the grant. I wanted one Palm‰ to have Internet access
through Palm Net for a year. Then I could access the Baptist Digital Library
and the World Wide Web with AvantGo, the easy to use, free web-based interface,
for Palm Pilots. The Baptist Hospital Medical Library would serve as a role
model of PDA access to digital libraries. The second goal was to see if
physicians would modify their habit of using PDAs for mostly personal information
to using it for clinical purposes. Would physicians utilize their PDAs more
often if they had access to Ovid@Hand to help them stay current with the
medical literature and assist them in diagnosing and treating patients?
A user of Ovid@Hand can record a clinical question into his PDA then sync
it with his computer. A Medline search is ordered instantly. A physician
can save a search and have it run automatically so that the latest citations
are waiting for him to review. Some additional features include a drug database
and access to over 700 disease profiles. A before and after survey of physician
PDA usage was planned. |
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| 2001: Susan
London |
Susan London
is currently Executive Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the Ruth
Lilly Medical Library of Indiana University. She used the award to attend
the Stanford
University Medical Informatics Short Course. |
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| 2000: Kathryn
E. Kerdolff and Kathleen F.
Bauer |
Kathryn E.
Kerdolff (Kathy) MLIS, AHIP, is a Reference Librarian for Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. The grant allowed
her to complete the State Morbidity Database (SMD), a web catalog containing
the titles, publication histories, and library locations of complete runs
of the communicable disease reports (morbidity reports) from each of the
fifty states. The SMD is also a web-searchable bibliographic citation database
of the articles in these publications. Articles are indexed using Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH), as well as common terms. The SMD database is equipped
with the linking function to connect to full-text web publications, or to
a library catalog if full-text is not available.
State morbidity publications
are published monthly or bi-monthly by each State's Department of Health.
They are not indexed by any of the commercial bibliographic database or
indexing services, their publishing histories are somewhat erratic, and
State Public Health Departments change their names, their sections, their
management, etc. as frequently as they change their address! Despite their
irregularities, these publications continue to provide up-to-date statistical
health information. Kathy presented a number of posters and contributed
papers at library, public health, and information management conferences
promoting the database.
Kathleen F. Bauer is a Librarian at
the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
She will use her award to design a study that will be used to refine Cushing/Whitney
Medical Library's Web site and to create a new digital library model for
the Yale School of Nursing. |
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| 1999: Ruth Riley and Gang
"Wendy" Wu |
Ruth Riley is Associate
Director, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library in Little
Rock.
She will use her award to attend a conference, Improving Health in a Digital
World.
Gang (Wendy) Wu is Medical Librarian, Shiffman Library, Wayne State
University, Detroit.
Ms. Wu will use the award for Web-based classes at the University of Michigan
School of Information. |
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| 1998: none awarded |
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| 1997: Linda
Hogan and Julie Johnson McGowan, Ph.D. |
In
1997, the first Medical Informatics Section (MIS)/MLA Career Development
Grants were awarded to Linda Hogan and Julie J. McGowan, Ph.D., AHIP.
Julie J. McGowan, Ph.D., AHIP, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana
University School of Medicine–Indianapolis, describes how the award
benefited her work: “I used the award money to conduct a pilot research
project on the efficacy of Larry Weed’s Problem Knowledge Couplers
in primary care and specialty practice. The money was able to jump-start
this research, which I subsequently published in the [October 1999] Bulletin
of the Medical Library Association.”
Linda Hogan is now Director, Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh Mercy
Health Systems (PMHS) where she is responsible for development and support
of PMHS Information Services initiatives focused on clinical information
systems, the electronic medical record and maximizing physician access to
information. She is also an Adjunct Professor, Mercy Hospital School of
Nursing (1999 - present), and Ohio Valley General Hospital School of Nursing
(1997 - present) in knowledge based management and nursing informatics.
The MIS/MLA, NLM/Woods Hole Fellowship in Medical Informatics, and affiliation
with the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh,
all contributed to the successful completion of Ph.D (with a dissertation
in the area of Consumer Health Informatics) and helped determine the career
direction. The MLA/MIS Award was used towards tuition during final classes
toward doctorate in Library and Information Science. |
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