Member Achievements - April, 2026

• Brittany Robinson completed the Manager Certification Program at CU Anschutz.
• Catisha Benjamin has been nominated to become Chair of AAMLA for MLA.
• Lori Micho was elected Chair-Elect of the Complementary and Integrative Health Caucus for MLA
• Catisha Benjamin was a panelist for the MLA session: AHIP 101: A Beginner’s Guide for Medical Librarians.
• Congratulations to all the adjoint faculty who successfully renewed their status for 2025: Catisha Benjamin, Liz Kellermeyer, Rub`y Nugent, and Marie St. Pierre.
• Yumin Jiang and Liz Kellermeyer were invited panelists for MLA’s Collection Development Caucus’s Forum on Collection Development Policies in March.
• Carole Durst was awarded a 2026 MLA Collection Development Professional Development Grant, which she will use to attend the Charleston Conference in November.
• Ruby Nugent received an MLA 2026 Travel Grant to attend the annual conference.

MLA
The following posters will be presented at MLA 2026 in Milwauke, WI:

• Lori Micho and Laura Riley: Small Team, Big Mandate: A Practical Roadmap to Digital Accessibility Compliance in an Institutional Repository
• Catisha Benjamin and Marie St. Pierre: Librarian's Literature Search's contribution to Hospital’s 5 Year Goals
• Brittany Robinson: Growing Smarter Systems: Creating Efficient Student Employee Workflows Through Collaboration
• Brittany Robinson, Rachel Helbing and David Martinez: Improving Virtual Reference Through Collaboration: An AskUs Overhaul
• Ruby Nugent: In U.S. We Trust? Librarians Perspectives on Federal Government Health Information Reliability (presenting during both the RTI Fellow presentation session and in-person poster session)

 
Carole Durst was a session organizer for the Collection Development Symposium: Adaptation and Navigation: Collections in a Time of Change

Publications
Swenson KS, Bothwell S, Zhivotov A, Sieverts A, Devireddy S, Shuff K, Nocon K, Carl A, Molison K, Grzybacz L, Avila B, Ikomi C, Cohen L, Svoboda E, Davis S. Demographic Composition of Participants in Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy Studies Across the Globe: A 20-Year Systematic Review. Am J Med Genet A. 2026 Mar;200(3):619-631. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.64285. Epub 2025 Nov 5. PMID: 41190564.
 
Hua JT, Farah WH, Rose CS, Kellermeyer L, Zell-Baran LM. Silicosis and silica dust sampling in mineral mining across 30 countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 2026 Mar 21. doi: 10.1186/s12889-026-27032-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41862874.
 
Liu SH, Shah M, Leslie L, Lo JE, Ansah-Asiedu E, Harnke B, Hauswirth SG, Virgili G, Li T. Artificial Intelligence for Diagnosing Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies. Cornea. 2026 Mar 18;. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000004151. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41931504.
 
Bammann E, Paula de Oliveira Pereira A, Jaramillo D, Harnke B, Dye-Robinson A, Li AS, Krisher L, Ogden PH, Newman LS, Dally M. Scoping Review of Interventions to Prevent CKD of Unknown Origin in Working Populations. Kidney Int Rep. 2026 May;11(5):106379. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2026.106379. eCollection 2026 May. PMID: 41907817. PMCID: PMC13022669.
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