Speakers and Instructors

Speakers

Laura Stec
Thursday, February 24, 9:00 am
Cool Cuisine - Feed Your Body, Mind, and Planet
Eaters are motivated by pleasure. So when talking to people about healthy eating, it’s always smart to include the chef’s point of view - “Food good for you and good for the planet also tastes the best!” Laura will address personal and planetary health issues from a culinary perspective, where audience members learn more about why they “want” to make changes, instead of why they “should” make changes. Topics include: Organics: Are they really healthier and tastier? Bottled water: What's the problem with plastic?, and The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15: when promoting healthy food backfires and how to prevent it. Current research on how social awareness can influence positive behavior change toward healthier eating habits is also addressed.

Bio
Laura Stec is a private chef, author and educator, trained at the Culinary Institute of America, the School of Natural cookery, and the Vega Macrobiotic Center. She is a culinary health educator for Kaiser Permanente, and offers on-site cooking classes, tastings and presentations for business and corporate wellness events. Additionally, she is a "forager-for-hire" who offers 1-2 day Green Cuisine workshops to food service personnel. Cool Cuisine – Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming is her first book (Gibbs Smith, 2008).

Becky J. Lyon
Thursday, February 24, 2:00 pm
NLM Update

Bio
Becky J. Lyon has served as Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations (LO) at the National Library of Medicine since 1999. In this position, she oversees LO’s outreach activities including programs to reach health professionals and the public, international programs, training, the NLM Associate Fellowship Program, evaluation, budget, and space for staff and collections. Ms. Lyon also is the LO lead in developing emergency preparedness and disaster response plans for Library Operations in cooperation with other national libraries and with libraries in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Ms. Lyon first came to NLM as an Associate Fellow in 1972 and held positions in the Technical Services Division, where she was instrumental in the original automation of book acquisitions functions, and in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, where she managed an experimental medical computer assisted instruction network and worked on the initial Integrated Library System research project. After heading network services at the Library of Congress’s National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and directing network development at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, she returned to NLM in 1984. From 1984-1999, she was in charge of NLM’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine, a network of more than 5,900 libraries providing health information services to health professionals and the public.

Karen Schneider
Friday, February 25, 9:00 am
Change Management and the Sustainable Library
"Change is easy. You go first." The one constant in our professional lives today is change, but it is also our greatest challenge. How do we know when and what to let go? What are the ingredients to effective change management? How do we inspire buy-in from those we work with and from our key stakeholders? Karen Schneider will address change management from her two decades of experience in bringing transformation to libraries of all types and sizes—where it worked, where it failed, lessons learned, and some great moments in library transformation.

Bio
Karen G. Schneider is the director of Cushing Library at Holy Names University, a small private university in the Oakland Hills distinguished by its commitment to the liberal arts and its diversity. She has managed libraries and library projects of all types and sizes. She has published widely in both library literature and literary journals. A native San Franciscan, a year ago Karen returned to "the city" after 30 years living worldwide.

David Irby
Friday, February 25, 1:30 pm
From Flexner to the Future: Recommendations of the Carnegie Reports of 1910 and 2010

Objectives

Describe the key findings and recommendations of the 1910 Flexner Report
List the four key recommendations of the 2010 Carnegie Report including:
- The rationale for each recommendation
- Examples of how to implement the recommendation

Abstract
Twice over the past one hundred years The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has called for the reform of medical education. In 1910, Abraham Flexner stressed the importance of scientific research and educational excellence in the training of physicians, which resulted in a transformation of medical education. In 2010, the co-authors of a new report commissioned by The Carnegie Foundation call for actions that will transform medical education again: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of learning processes; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and improvement; and explicit attention to the formation of professional identity. The 2010 report, Cooke M, Irby DM, O’Brien BC. Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2010.

References

Cooke M, Irby D, Sullivan W, Ludmerer K. American Medical Education One Hundred Years After the Flexner Report. NEJM. 355:1339-1344, 2006.
Cooke M, Irby DM, O’Brien BC. Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Irby DM, Cooke M, O’Brien B. Calls for Reform of Medical Education by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 1910 and 2010. Acad Med. 85(2):220-227, 2010.

Bio
David Irby, PhD is Professor of Medicine; Vice Dean for Education and Director of the Office of Medical Education at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; and was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he co-directed a national study on the professional preparation of physicians (Cooke M, Irby DM, O’Brien BC. Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010). For his research in medical education, he has received numerous national and international awards including the 2010 Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. He earned a masters of divinity from Union Theological Seminary, a doctorate in education from the University of Washington and a postdoctoral fellowship in academic leadership from Harvard Medical School.

Instructors

Susan Barnes
Susan Barnes is Assistant Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach. Evaluation Resource Center, University of Washington, Seattle WA. Ms. Barnes has provided instruction and consultation to health sciences librarians on outreach proposals and evaluation projects and is the co-author, with Dr. Cindy Olney, of the 3-part "Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach Projects" series: Booklet 1: "Getting Started with Community-Based Outreach"; Booklet 2: "Including Evaluation in Outreach Project Planning"; Booklet 3: "Collecting and Analyzing Evaluation Data" (Seattle, WA: National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Evaluation Resource Center; Bethesda MD: National Library of Medicine, 2006).

Other publications include the January, 2008 article "Outcomes—Who Cares?" in National Network: Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association (32 (3): 6-7) and "A Place for Sharing--Outreach Connections: Native Health Information" to be published in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010 (in press). An active member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Ms. Barnes received her MLS from the University of Washington and is working on an MS in Communication from Cornell University.

Jan Carmikle
Jan earned a BS in animal behavior before her JD, both from UC Davis. While copyright is a dry subject, her 15 years of research university contracting experience, the last six focusing on copyrights, make for some interesting and illuminating examples which pepper her presentations. She's given talks to a variety of audiences including High School students, student radio station managers, librarians, and previously taught for UC Davis Extension. Her children, now in college themselves, know more about copyright than many lawyers.

Alan Carr
Alan Carr is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. He is responsible for planning and coordinating outreach programs and activities for health professionals, and manages the NN/LM PSR Exhibit program. Alan has over 20 years of experience teaching workshops on health information resources from the National Library of Medicine, such as PubMed and MedlinePlus. He also teaches workshops developed by the NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center, such as Community Assessment, for librarians and health professionals. Alan received his MLS from UCLA in 1986 and a Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Texas, Houston, in 1981.

Kay Deeney
Kay Deeney teaches classes on health information resources from the National Library of Medicine such as PubMed and MedlinePlus. Kay has extensive experience in internet health information resources and has been active in promoting access to health information for Native Americans and Hispanics. Kay has taught courses at the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science on consumer health resources for diverse communities. She has also taught in the UCLA School of Public Health. She is interested in distance learning and applying Web 2.0 technologies to teaching.

Sharon Dennis
Sharon Dennis received her M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University in 1983. She is currently Librarian at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at University of Utah, where she serves as Technology Coordinator for the Mid Continental Region (MCR) and Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) of the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). She is responsible for investigating and implementing a variety of new technologies for distance education, communication, and collaboration. She has over seventeen years of experience teaching technology classes on a variety of topics, including web page creation and programming, videoconferencing technologies, and Web 2.0 technologies. She is also Co-Director of the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) project, a national database of freely available multimedia materials for health sciences education.

William Jones
William Jones is a Research Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found group (kftf.ischool.washington.edu). He has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval and cognitive psychology. Prof. Jones wrote the book "Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management" and also edited the book "Personal Information Management" (with co-editor Jaime Teevan). Prof. Jones received his doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University for research into human memory.

Connie Schardt
Connie Schardt is the immediate Past President of the Medical Library Association and Associate Director for Public Services at the Medical Center Library at Duke University. During her presidential year she promoted the Rising Star program to nurture emerging MLA Leaders, the MLA Boot Camp to provide immediate training for new health sciences librarians, and the Conference Community which created a virtual Conference experience for all MLA members. At the Medical Center Library her main focus is to support the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine. Some of her activities include: coordinates an academic EBM Course for MS3 students; maintains the EBM Tutorial, a web-based tutorial used by health professionals across the country to introduce the concepts of evidence-based medicine; teaches a distance education course (EBM and the Medical librarian) for the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; serves as co-director of Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine an annual weeklong workshop for clinicians held at Duke University since 2003; and maintains the EBMLibrarian wiki.