Catisha Benjamin, Marie St. Pierre, Jerry Carlson, and Liz Kellermeyer were renewed, and Ruby Nugent was appointed, as Adjoint Faculty with the Strauss Health Sciences Library.
Liz Kellermeyer and the National Jewish Health library were awarded an NNLM grant to host a hybrid event with Colorado’s Poet Laureate, Bobby LeFebre: Poetry as Praxis: an exploration of collective discourse and civic health. Information here.
Ellie Svoboda has been accepted into the 2022 MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) and was granted a scholarship that will cover the registration fee.
Carole Durst completed the MLA Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Level II.
Big congratulations to Carole Durst, who will be graduating from Texas Woman’s University in May with dual Master’s degrees in Library Science and Health Studies!
Publications
Raybin JL, Harnke BD, Hendricks-Ferguson V. Does Creative Arts Therapy Improve Distressing Symptoms in Children with Cancer? A Synthesis of Extant Literature. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing. 2022 January; 39(1):60-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/27527530211059432
Phimphasone-Brady P, Palmer B, Vela A, Johnson RL, Harnke B, Hoffecker L, Coons HL, Epperson N. Psychosocial interventions for women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. F&S Reviews. 2022 January; 3(1):42-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xfnr.2021.11.004
Cunningham JM, Persoff J, Piper C, Burger A, Shinnar E, Cunnius P, Stella SA, Frank MG. A Framework for Hospital Medicine's Involvement in Disaster Preparedness and Response. Health Secur. 2022 Mar 24. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35333614. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2021.0210
Carole Durst successfully earned the Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) level 1 through the Medical Library Association.
Kim O'Neill was awarded Outstanding Affiliate Faculty for the Loretto Heights School of Nursing for 2021
Ellie Svoboda was accepted as a Provisional member of AHIP – the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
Ruby Nugent was selected to participate in the Pilot Training Class on Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK) from December and January. This intensive 40 hour, 5 week course included 15 students and 5 mentors focused on teaching attendees how by learning more about computable applications they can be part of delivering this knowledge and resources to other librarians and healthcare providers.
Ruby Nugent co-presented at the REFORMA National Conference with other MLA Latinx Caucus members and academic colleagues outlining a year-long Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Project. This task force was made up of two project teams which conducted a comprehensive scoping review of Hispanic/Latinx terminology specific to the United States in an effort to capture and recognize the diversity of this population. Based on what they found, they then developed several MeSH and Subject Heading suggestions that were then formally submitted to NLM for consideration.
Emily Peterson will be a Doody’s Core Title selector for 2022.
Alex Austermann created a historical timeline for Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s 125th anniversary and created a new homepage for the library catalog to showcase it. She is currently working on another timeline for research history.
O’Neill, K. (2021). The Little Cemetery that Moved. Regis University Magazine, 29(2). https://issuu.com/regisuniversity/docs/21-mkcm-magazinefa21-final-lowres_1_/24
Connolly, T., Coats, H., DeSanto, K., Jones J. (2021). The experience of uncertainty for patients, families and healthcare providers in post-stroke palliative and end-of-life care: a qualitative meta-synthesis. Age and Ageing. 50(2):534-545. PMID: 33206952. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa229
Weeks, A., Justice, A. V., Nugent, R., Rodriguez, B., & Linares, B. (2021). ¡Presente!: Affirming Latinx voices within health sciences library scholarship. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 109(4), 693–696. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1295
Melissa Kovac is acknowledged in the following publications:
Beraud, M., Goodhue Meyer, E., Lozano, M., Bah, A., Vassallo, R., & Brown, B. L. (2022). Lessons learned from the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 and specific considerations for immunocompromised patients. Transfus Apher Sci, 103355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2022.103355
Sethi, D., Martin, K. E., Shrotriya, S., & Brown, B. L. (2021). Systematic literature review evaluating evidence and mechanisms of action for platelet-rich plasma as an antibacterial agent. J Cardiothorac Surg, 16(1), 277. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01652-2
New Members
Alex Austermann is a Research Librarian with Colorado Parks & Wildlife. She states that while she doesn’t provide medical information about people, she does provide articles to researchers, biologists and vets about wildlife.
Dana Abbey and Wlad Labeikovsky have had a chapter proposal accepted for a book to be published by ALA on the topic of spatial literacy in public health. The title of the chapter they are drafting is "Mapping and Evaluation of Local Public Health Resources, Access, and Populations using Free Software and Census Information”.
Christi Piper and Sam Wilairat received the MCMLA Best Research Paper Award for their paper "Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Apply to our Jobs? A Qualitative Study on MLIS Graduate Student's Perceptions of and Interest in Health Sciences Librarianship".
Ellie Svoboda received the MCMLA/Midwest 2021 Joint Conference Viewer's Choice Award for Best Lightning Talk. Ellie’s Lighting Talk was titled "To Zoom or Not to Zoom?"
Jacob Gallay started a new position at the Strauss Health Sciences Library on November 1st as an Access Services Specialist.
The National Jewish Health library welcomes two new employees: Carole Durst, who joined in November as the Senior Library Technician and Ruby Nugent, who will be starting in December as the Biomedical Research Librarian. Nitzan Watman has left to be the Public Services Librarian at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Singh, A., Heet, H., Guggenheim, D. S., Lim, M., Garg, B., Bao, M., Smith, S. L., Garrison, D., Raynor, E. M., Lee, J. W., Wrigley, J., & Riska, K. M. (2021). A Systematic Review on the Association Between Vestibular Dysfunction and Balance Performance in Children With Hearing Loss. Ear and hearing, 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001131. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001131
Chadalawada, S., Rassi, A., Jr, Samara, O., Monzon, A., Gudapati, D., Vargas Barahona, L., Hyson, P., Sillau, S., Mestroni, L., Taylor, M., da Consolação Vieira Moreira, M., DeSanto, K., Agudelo Higuita, N. I., Franco-Paredes, C., & Henao-Martínez, A. F. (2021). Mortality risk in chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. ESC heart failure, 10.1002/ehf2.13648. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13648
Gilens, J. F., Hoss, M., Lyon, C., & DeSanto, K. (2021). Does Light Therapy Decrease Depression in Older Adults?. American family physician, 104(4), 417–418.
Marie St. Pierre completed her graduate certificate of Health Data Informatics and Analytics from the University of Denver.
Catisah Benjamin was named an Editorial Board Member for Doody’s Special Topics Lists.
Emily Peterson is a slector for Doody’s Special Topics List for Health Literacy, which went live in July.
Liz Kellermeyer was named an Editorial Board Member for Journal of the Medical Library Association.
Nina McHale for was accepted into the MLA Research Training Institute for 2021 and received a $750 scholarship. Nina’s research topic is post-MLS training for medical and health sciences librarians in evidence-based medicine and advanced literature searching.
Sam (Kennefick) Wilairat was offered and has accepted a position as one of the NLM Associate Fellows for 2021-2022! The Associate Fellowship program is a one-year postgraduate training fellowship with NLM. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research.
Yumin Jiang was awarded an AAHSL Leadership Diversity Scholarship. Yumin used the scholarship to attend the Siena College Leadership Institute for Academic Library Managers in late July.
Nina McHale and Christi Piper were promoted July 1, 2021. Nina is now an Associate Professor and Christi is an Assistant Professor.
Shandra Knight started a new role as the Deputy Director of Strauss Health Sciences Library on September 1, 2021.
Huge congrats to Lisa Traditi for successfully completing her term as MLA President in May!
Presentations
MLA vConference, May 2021
Papers
Posters
5th Annual Joint Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists and Association of Mental Health Librarians Virtual Conference, April 2021
CLiC Spring Workshop, April 2021
Colorado Cochrane Affiliate, April 2021
ACRL meeting, April 2021
Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology, August 2021
Kovac, M. (2021) HIPAA and Telehealth: Protecting Health Information in a Digital World. Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy. 6:2, DOI: 10.5860/jifp.v6i2.7556
Patel, A. D., Bullock, G. S., Wrigley, J., Paterno, M. V., Sell, T. C., & Losciale, J. M. (2021). Does sex affect second ACL injury risk? A systematic review with meta-analysis. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(15), 873-882. doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103408
Wilairat, S., Svoboda, E., & Piper, C. (2021). Practical Changes in Reference Services: A Case Study. Medical reference services quarterly, 40(2), 151–167. doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2021.1912567
Panchal, P., Piper, C., Whitmore C., & Davies, R. D. (2021) Providing supportive transgender mental health care: a systemized narrative review of patient experiences, preferences, and outcomes, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2021.1899094
Rodrigues Pessoa, R., Mueller, A. C., Boxley, P., Flaig, T. W., Piper, C., Konety, B., Yu, J. B., Gershman, B., Kukreja, J., & Kim, S. P. (2021). Systematic review and meta-analysis of radiation therapy for high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Urologic oncology, S1078-1439(21)00118-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2021.03.009
Stotz S, Hebert LE, Brega AG, Lockhart S, Henderson JN, Roubideaux Y, DeSanto K, Moore KR (2021). Technology-based health education resources for indigenous adults: a scoping review. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 32:2, 318-346. doi:10.1353/hpu.2021.0066.
Lyon C, Iruku S, Hoss M, DeSanto K. Is NPH associated with fewer adverse events than analog basal insulin for adults with T2D? (2021) J Fam Pract.70:4, E5-E6.
Stephanie Weldon new systems library director for Sisters of charity leavenworth. She used to work for the University Health Sciences Library years ago.
Teresa McGinley is a Medical Librarian at Harley E. Rice Medical Library/Centura Health.
Carole A. Durst is a student at Texas Women’s University working on her dual Master's degree in Library Science and Health Studies. She is also a Library Program Coordinator in the Denver Public Library system.
You can see Jacob Galley featured in our new member profile on our website or Facebook.
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