In honor of National Medical Librarians Month we’re sharing brief profiles of rock star medical librarians. In this month’s third installment, we bring you a librarian by day who rocks out at night, a long-time teacher and trainer, a curator of historical treasures, five purveyors of Southern rock (and protectors of copyright), and two local performers…
The leaders involved in NLM’s Biomedical Informatics Course read like a who’s who in biomedicine: Michael J. Ackerman, Jim Cimino, Paul Clayton, Dina Demner-Fushman, Dan Masys, Clem McDonald, Joyce Mitchell, and Homer Warner. For 24 years, the staff offered an immersion into an initially new, yet still rapidly growing research area that blends library, engineering,…
Just posted in NIH MedlinePlus magazine, “Dancing with the Stars” champion and football player Rashad Jennings shares his personal experience with asthma and talks about the importance of research. You can also learn more about asthma and the future of monitoring asthma. The Fall 2017 issue also features— Celiac Disease—Read stories of how one couple…
It’s National Medical Librarians Month, and we’re celebrating by posting profiles of rock star medical librarians. In this second installment of our rock star medical librarians series this month, we’re thrilled to introduce you to more stars. We asked them where they’re currently working (the gig), three words that describe their beat, their greatest hit,…
We couldn’t resist another encore. October is National Medical Librarians Month. What better time to once again feature rock star medical librarians? Our initial idea was inspired by NLM director Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan who wrote In a blog post last year: “I’m all for the ‘rock star’ librarian idea.” We were, too. So, we began…
