Speaker Bios
Kalyani Ankem teaches research methods, health sciences resources, and online searching as an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University. She conducts research in health information needs of patients, diffusion of new medical knowledge among physicians, information systems for women's health, and quantitative methods, and has published in several refereed journals. Previously, she taught at Wayne State University and provided statistical support for research projects at the University of Toronto (Canada) in the Faculty of Medicine and in the children's hospital affiliated with the university. Go to her website
Andrew Booth is an information professional/lecturer/researcher with experience of a wide range of aspects of evidence based practice. His fifteen years' experience as a health information professional has included the King's Fund Centre where he managed three national information services and, since November 1994, the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield where he is Director of Information Resources. His current brief is to develop an information resource to support evidence-based health-care both within the University of Sheffield and Trent Region. Go to his website
Anne Brice is the Head of Knowledge & Information Sciences, Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham; and Senior Information Specialist, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford.
After qualifying in 1983 Anne worked in the University of London, then as Regional Librarian in the Borders Health Board, Scotland. In 1995 she was appointed as Librarian at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford. She moved to the post of Assistant Director of the Health Care Libraries Unit, University of Oxford in 1996 with responsibility for co-ordinating and facilitating training, networking, and co-operation among the member libraries of the Health Libraries and Information Network. In 2002 she was seconded to the National Library for Health firstly as Specialist Libraries Development Manager, building knowledge networks and communities of practice around specialist health care domains, and later as Acting Head of Service.
Anne is currently helping to set up ThinkWell, an international network which aims to improve the health and well-being of citizens across the world by enabling them to make informed decisions about lifestyle, diet and health interventions through public-led health discussions, education and research, using the internet and the mass media as fundamental tools. Anne’s other interests include an ongoing commitment to supporting the development of evidence based library and information practice, mentoring and professional development, and the information professionals role in facilitating knowledge management.
Dr Rowena Cullen is Associate Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and is author of Health Information on the Internet (Greenwood Press, 2006), and co-editor and co-author Comparative Perspectives on E-Government: Serving Today and Building for Tomorrow (Scarecrow Press, 2006). Her current research work focuses on e-government, health informatics, and the evaluation of information services. She is a Senior Editor of the Journal of E-Government, Regional Associate Editor for Asia and the Pacific for the Health Information and Libraries Journal, and a member of the editorial board of the just-launched Journal of IT and Politics, as well as Performance Measurement and Metrics, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Education for Information, and LibRes. She has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences, and has published over 100 articles, book chapters and conference papers.
José-Marie Griffiths is the Dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Griffiths has a research and leadership career that spans over 30 years. She was recently appointed to the United States National Science Board. She was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate for a term of six years. She has held two previous presidential appointments, one to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2005, and the other to the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science from 1996 to 2002. Griffiths also has served on blue-ribbon panels and committees for agencies including the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Navy. Go to her website
Margaret Haines is the University Librarian at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She returned to Canada in 2006 to her hometown and alma mater after seventeen years in the UK. Her most recent post in the UK was Director of Information Services and Systems at King’s College London but she has also been CEO of the Library and Information Commission, NHS Library Adviser, Director of Research and Knowledge Management for the NHS South East, and Head of Information Resources at the King’s Fund. Margaret was also the President of CILIP – the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals – in 2004 and her Presidential priorities included evidence-based librarianship. Margaret was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship from CILIP for her services to the profession. She will be drawing on her cross-sectoral and international experiences in discussing the importance of evidence-based practice to the future of information professionals.
Martha Kyrillidou, Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs, joined ARL in 1994 to manage the ARL Statistics and Measurement Program. She has been the editor of the ARL Statistics and the ARL Annual Salary Survey and a principal investigator in the development of LibQUAL+®. She has been involved in projects regarding the evaluation of electronic resources such as MINES for Libraries™, DigiQUAL™, and E-metrics. Prior to joining ARL, Martha was working at the Library Research Center of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with specialization in library evaluation. She has degrees from Kent State University and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Anne Linton is Director of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University. She has served in that position since January 1998 and in various other positions at Himmelfarb since 1984. Ms. Linton also holds the rank of adjunct associate professor in the Department of Medicine and is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She is a graduate of Georgetown and Drexel Universities. Her main areas of intetest include access to electronic resources, health informatics, and information literacy.
Joanne Gard Marshall is an Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as Dean of the school from 1999 to 2004. Prior to 1999, Joanne was a faculty member at the University of Toronto, where she taught courses in health sciences information resources, management of corporate and other specialized information centers, research methods and online information retrieval. In addition to her Ph.D. in public health, Joanne holds at Master of Health Science Degree from McMaster University and a Master of Library Science degree from McGill University. In 2005 she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from McGill University.
Before assuming her faculty appointment at the University of Toronto, Joanne worked for 15 years as a librarian in various academic and health sciences libraries. She has received a number of awards including the Medical Library Association (MLA) doctoral fellowship, the MLA Eliot Prize for the most significant research in medical librarianship for 1982 and 1992, and the Award of Outstanding Achievement from the Canadian Health Libraries Association in 1992. From the Special Libraries Association she received the H.W. Wilson Award in 1997, the John Cotton Dana Award in 1998 and the Factiva Leadership Award in 2004. During 2004-2005 she served as President of the Medical Library Association. She is a fellow of both the Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. Joanne's husband, Victor Marshall is the Director of the Institute on Aging at UNC. Her daughter Emily is a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia. In her spare time, Joanne enjoys yoga and gardening.
T. Scott Plutchak is the Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. From 1999 through 2005 he was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association. He is a frequent guest speaker on topics ranging from intellectual property to scholarly communication to the future of librarianship, and leads the international librarian rock band, The Bearded Pigs.