Library Advisory Board
Katherine Akers
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Katherine G. Akers is the biomedical research and data specialist at Shiffman Medical Library at Wayne State University (WSU). Katherine leads data-related initiatives across the WSU library system and supports the research and publishing activities of WSU School of Medicine faculty, residents, and students. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Missouri State University, […]
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Laura Simon Buehler
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Laura Simon Buehler is a clinical librarian at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She also serves as liaison to Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University’s adult teaching hospital, where she works to promote evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice activities. Laura participates in the library’s systematic review service […]
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Shannon Jones
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
Shannon Jones is the director of libraries for the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. In this role, she has assumed leadership for all aspects of the library, including strategic planning, budgeting, technology integration, facility management and operation, and personnel administration. Before her arrival at MUSC, Shannon worked as the associate director of […]
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Lieuwe Kool
Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Since 2006, Lieuwe Kool has been director of the medical library at the Academic Medical Centre, the university hospital affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. He also serves as a member of the UKB Licensing Working Group, which supports the Dutch consortium of 13 university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands. Lieuwe earned […]
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Heather J. Martin
Providence St. Joseph Health
Portland, OR
Heather J. Martin, MISt, AHIP, serves as the director of system library services for Providence St. Joseph Health. Based out of Portland, OR, Heather directs the staff and nine physical libraries, which serve 51 hospitals and affiliated clinics and offices across the western United States. She led the integration of the library services and resources […]
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Louise McLaughlin
Woman's Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
As the information specialist at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA, since 2003, Louise McLaughlin has translated her skills as a former public librarian, information broker, and reference librarian to manage a hospital library successfully. In addition to maintaining basic library services, Louise realigned budgetary goals, developed an archives digitization project, tailored a clinical rounding […]
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Keir Reavie
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Keir currently is currently the Director, Library Services, the Lee Graff Medical and Scientific Library, at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Keir received his Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario. Before moving to the City of Hope, Keir held positions at Rutgers University, Newark; the University […]
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Gabe Rios
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Gabe Rios is the library director of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He leads a team of librarians and staff in collaborating with faculty, staff, and students distributed over nine campuses for their curricular, research, and clinical information needs. He has been in administrative positions with increasing responsibility […]
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Anne Seymour
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Since 2014, Anne K. Seymour, M.S., has been the Director of the Welch Medical Library, overseeing library and information services at Johns Hopkins University, including the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. She holds a faculty appointment at all three health science schools. She leads an expert team of managers, informationists, and IT/digital systems […]
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Ysabel Bertolucci
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA (Deceased)
Jane Blumenthal
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Retired)
Jo Anne Boorkmann
University of California — Davis, Davis, CA (Retired)
Ginger Bopp
St Vincent's Mercy Hospital, Toledo, OH (Retired)
Margo Coletti
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Philip Davis
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (now at Phil Davis Consulting, Ithaca, NY)
Nicole Dettmar
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Daniel Dollar
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Jon Eldredge
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Jill Emery
NASIG, United States (now at Portland State University, Portland, OR)
Tom Flemming
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (Retired)
Rick Forsman
University of Colorado, Denver, CO (Retired)
Susan A. Fowler
Washington University in St. Louis, St.Louis, MO
Sandra Franklin
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Donna Gibson
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Cheryl Goodwin
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA (Retired)
Cindy Gruwell
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Anna Habetler
Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA (Retired)
Teresa Hartman
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Heather Holmes
Summa Health System, Akron, OH (now at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC)
Ruth Holst
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (Retired)
Teresa Knott
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Ulrich Korwitz
German National Library of Medicine, Cologne, Germany
Michelle Kraft
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Erica Lake
Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT (now at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
Elizabeth Lorbeer
Rush University, Chicago, IL (now at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)
Bruce Madge
CILIP, United Kingdom
John McDonald
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (now at USC, Los Angeles, CA)
Eve Melton
Kaiser Permanente, Stockton, CA
Judith Messerle
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Retired)
Locke Morrisey
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (Deceased)
Jan Orick
Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Jerry Perry
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
T. Scott Plutchak
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Jason Price
Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA (now at SCELC, Los Angeles, CA)
Bart Ragon
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Tovah Reis
Brown University, Providence, RI (Retired)
Melissa Rethlefsen
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (now at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
Patti Reynolds
Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, FL
Karen Roth
Morton Plant Mease Health Care, Baycare Library Group, Clearwater, FL
Brit Roth
Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA (Retired)
Susan Schweinsberg Long
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Chris Shaffer
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Jean Shipman
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Tom Singarella
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN (Emeritus)
Stefano Stabene
Ospedale Maggiore di Milano — IRCCS, Milan, Italy
David Stewart
North West Health Care Libraries Unit, National Health Service (NHS), England
MJ Tooey
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Andrea Twiss-Brooks
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tom Waugh
VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY (now at Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC)
