NAHSL Conference 2014, October 19-October 21, 2014: Speakers

A clinical resident and research fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Warraich is involved in clinical research and is an active writer.

His writings on various medical issues have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases and the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. He has also written on humanism in medicine for various international news outlets such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, The LA Times, The Guardian and Foreign Policy. His first novel Auras of the Jinn – A Pakistani Story was written while he was in medical school.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/haiderwarraich/home

Stephen Abram, MLS, is a strategy and direction planning consultant for libraries and the information industry as managing principal at Lighthouse Partners, an associate of Dysart& Jones. He is also CEO of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries. He is a renowned library trend watcher and innovator and author of Stephen’s Lighthouse blog, one of the most popular blogs in librarianship. He has been president of the Ontario Library Association, the Canadian Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. He received the 2011 CLA Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award in June 2011. He has held international executive leadership positions at Cengage Learning (Gale), SirsiDynix, Thomson, ProQuest Micromedia, and IHS. He has lead several libraries and served on the advisory boards of six LIS schools. He was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries as one of the first LJ "Movers and Shakers." He has been awarded the SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information iSchool at the University of Toronto where he received the 2010 Outstanding Teaching Award. He speaks internationally on innovation, technology, marketing and strategic success in libraries and is the author of hundreds of articles and ALA Editions' bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram.

Presenter:  Michelle Eberle, Health Literacy & Community Engagement Coordinator, NN/LM NER

This presentation, designed for beginning proposal writers, will teach you how to apply for funding opportunities. Each component of the proposal writing process will be addressed, including: documenting the need; identifying the target population; writing measurable objectives; developing a work plan; an evaluation plan and dissemination plan.  We will explore National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region (NN/LM NER) funding opportunities and examples of successful projects.  The presenter will share tips from her experiences with planning, writing, and reviewing proposals.

Approved for 1 MLA CE credit.

Martha Fishel is Chief of the Public Services Division at the National Library of Medicine, the Division that is responsible for directing programs and services which provide access to the collections, centralized reference and customer service support, and preservation and collection management.

Ms. Fishel has been at the National Library of Medicine since 1976, starting as an acquisitions librarian in the Serial Records Section. She was involved in the early development of the DOCLINE and SERHOLD systems from their inception in the early 1980s. She worked with the Grateful Med development team in 1990s to formulate the document delivery portion of that program called Loansome Doc. For the past 15 years, she was responsible for the Public Services Division budget, contracts, and oversight of document delivery activities. Most recently she is the LO lead on the PubMed Central back issue scanning project, responsible for managing the contracts and LO staff working on this important archive of full-text biomedical journals. Prior to coming to NLM, she worked at the Department of Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals Law Library in Arlington, Virginia.

Ms. Fishel received a B.A. in English and Sociology from the American University in Washington D.C. and a M.L.S. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the Medical Library Association and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the MLA.

Linda J. Walton, Associate University Librarian at University of Iowa Libraries, is the current President of MLA. MLA is a not-for-profit professional educational association serving 4,000 individuals and institutions in the health sciences information field.

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