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Meet the Experts Bios

All of Us Research Program
The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) has partnered with the NIH All of Us Research Program (All of Us) to support access to quality health information and promote the value of participating in medical research across the United States. To support this partnership, NNLM is working with its robust and diverse network membership to offer health information programming in and through libraries. Stop by and learn more about how you can partner with NNLM and All of Us to offer quality health programming in your community. Learn more about All of Us at joinallofus.org/nlm and get involved at https://allofus.nnlm.gov/get-involved.


Nicole Baker
Reference Librarian, National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Section

Nicole has been working in HMD since the summer of 2015 as a Pathways Intern. Since then, she has completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at Salisbury University and a Master of Library and Information Science at University of Maryland, College Park. Her professional interests include working with patrons to broaden their understanding of library resources through education and outreach. Nicole feels lucky to spend her days on projects like researching the history of tattooing for a blog post or studying early printing and illustrating methods. She’s excited to see what this field has in store for her career and loves to share it with others.


Julie Botnick
Julie Botnick is a Technical Information Specialist with NLM’s Exhibition Program, specializing in developing programming for use by exhibition hosts that raises awareness of and engagement with NLM’s health information resources. Prior to NLM, she was an Education & Outreach Librarian at NNLM PSR. She holds a master’s in library and information studies from UCLA.


David Brown Ed.D., MLIS, MCHES
David M. Brown currently serves as the Wyoming Membership Services Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine Mid-Continental Region (NNLM/MCR). In this position he is responsible for outreach, engagement, and issues regarding diversity and inclusion for the MCR. He holds a Doctorate of Education with a specialization in health education from Teachers College Columbia University. He also has a Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University with a specialization in health and e-science. He is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist and serves on a divisional board with The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. He has served on the board of directors for the Society for Public Health Education and several editorial boards within the health education and public health arenas. Dr. Brown’s primary research areas include access to health information, professional development and professional preparation, and community engagement.


Kathi Canese
Kathi Canese joined NCBI in the early days of PubMed.  She is the program manager for PubMed, NCBI MeSH, and the NLM Catalog databases, and is also responsible for the submission and editing of citation data by publishers via the PubMed Data Management (PMDM) system. Kathi received her master’s degree in library and information science from the NY University at Albany.


Javier Chavez
At NLM, Javier is the lead for the MedlinePlus Español program. He facilitates the review of bilingual content in Spanish in support of NLM programs and activities. Over the past 20+ years, Javier has served as an SME for Biodefense Operations in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is a Veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and currently serves as a Company First Sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve. Javier served in the FDA Office of the Commissioner as a Patient Advocate within the Office of Health and Constituent Affairs. A graduate of St John’s University in Queens NY, Javier majored in Biology and Education and was a former Science Teacher.


Kelsey Cowles
Kelsey Cowles, MLIS is the Academic Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Region of the Network of the National Library of Medicine, based at the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System. She works with academic institutions to help them support health sciences students and faculty members and is involved in NNLM & NLM initiatives relating to citizen science and crowdsourcing, data management, and student engagement.


Nora Franco, MSIS, CHIS LV I
Nora Franco is the Consumer Health Librarian for the Network of the National Library of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region (NNLM PSR). Nora has over 11 years of experience working in public, academic, and special federal libraries, including the National Library of Medicine's Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) and the Library of Congress.

Working for the PSR, Nora provides in-person and online training in increasing health literacy to the librarians, staff, and communities within our region (comprised of California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific). During this time, she has focused on increasing our services and engagement with community based organizations serving underrepresented and Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities. She looks forward to meeting you!


Patricia E. Gallagher  
Patricia Gallagher has been a Librarian in NICHSR (National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology) since 2012. As part of her responsibilities, she works on “Health Service Research Information Center,” a web portal with current information relevant to health economics, policy and access, and on HSRProj, NICHSR’s database of projects in progress. Prior to that, Patricia was Senior User Services Librarian at the New York Academy of Medicine, where she worked for 16 years. She also worked as Associate Director at Beth Israel Medical Center and as Librarian at the Helene Fuld School of Nursing (both in New York City). While at NYAM, she served as a liaison and Librarian Coordinator to the Section on Evidence-based Health Care for their EBHC workshop; as the managing editor for NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (a quality-filtered, bilingual consumer health portal), and was on the project since the planning stages. She has presented and published on topics related to EBM, History of Medicine, and Consumer Health. Patricia has an MLS from Queens College, and an MA from Hunter College, is a Distinguished Member of Academy of Health Information Professionals; and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the Medical Library Association.


Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD, AHIP
Stephen Greenberg received his doctorate in Early Modern History from Fordham University in 1983 with a dissertation on early printing and publishing. After teaching for several years, he returned to school and earned his library degree from Columbia University in 1991, specializing in Rare Books and Archival Management. Since 1992, he has worked in the History of Medicine Division at the U.S. National Library of Medicine where he currently heads the Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Section.  His research and publications span a number of fields, including the history of printing and publishing, the social history of medicine, the history of medical librarianship, and the history of medical photography. In the past few months, his publications have ranged from the historiography of medicine in the 20^th century, the history and future of library card catalogues, the influence of Florence Nightingale on the occasion of her 200^th birthday, and the history of medicine in the “Outlander” books and TV series.

Dr. Greenberg is also an adjunct professor at both the Catholic University of America and the College of Library and Information Studies at the University of Maryland (College Park) where he lectures on the history and curatorship of rare books.


Jennifer Jentsch
Jennifer Jentsch, MLS is an information specialist at the National Library of Medicine. Since 2001, she has contributed to a variety of NLM health information products including PubMed, PubMed Central, and MedlinePlus. She currently serves as project manager for MedlinePlus Connect.


Sarah Levin-Lederer
Sarah Levin-Lederer is a public health professional with nine years of experience working in outreach, community engagement, and health education in a variety of public health settings including with a local health department. Currently, Sarah is an Education and Outreach Coordinator with the Network of the National Library of Medicine New England Region (NNLM NER) serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont with a focus on outreach to Public Health and Emergency Preparedness partners. Partner outreach and engagement activities include overseeing grantees, teaching online and in person, and program development.

Before joining NNLM NER, Sarah worked for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health on health outreach to refugee and immigrant serving organizations, homeless serving organizations, and the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP).  

In 2012, Sarah earned her MPH from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) in Social and Behavioral Health with a focus on health communication, social marketing, and social media building on a BA in Anthropology from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) with a focus on medical anthropology.


Stephanie M. Morrison, MPH
Stephanie has been the head of MedlinePlus at the National Library of Medicine since 2018. Prior to that, she was the head of Genetics Home Reference, another online resource from NLM. Her primary interests are in consumer health and health literacy.


Jill L. Newmark
Jill L. Newmark is the Exhibition Registrar and Manager of Traveling Exhibitions in the History of Medicine Division’s Exhibition Program at NLM. She works with a small team getting traveling banner exhibitions to libraries and cultural institutions across the country and around the globe. Jill has curated several exhibitions for NLM including Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons and Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine.


Andrew Plumer
Andrew Plumer is an Outreach Librarian. He began at the Johns Hopkins, Center for Communication Programs (CCP). In 2004, he joined the National Library of Medicine as a Reference Librarian. He worked on MedlinePlus, NLM’s consumer health information website. In 2012, he joined the Division of Scientific Information Services of the NLM where he managed social media and worked on HIV/AIDS and environmental health information. He returned to reference in 2017 and continues to assist library patrons, serve on the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) review panel, and provide training on NLM databases.


Nancy Shin
Nancy received her Bachelor of Science in the Integrated Sciences majoring in medical genetics and animal biology from the University of British Columbia (UBC). She also graduated from UBC's esteemed MLIS program with a focus on health librarianship. In 2018, she was the Research Data Management Sewell Fund Fellow for the Technology Incubator at Washington State University. Currently, she is the NNLM PNR Research and Data Coordinator for the University of Washington's Health Sciences Library. Her research interests lie in evidence-based medicine, research data management, data storytelling, and data visualization.


Alvin R. Stockdale
Alvin R. Stockdale, MLIS, is a cataloger at the National Library of Medicine, Technical Services Division, Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS). He catalogs both monographs and serials, and works on several metadata projects, including NLM’s Digital Repository and NLM’s Dataset Metadata Modeling Working Group. He is also the chair of NLM’s Holdings and Items Working Group.


Bart Trawick, PhD
Dr. Trawick has worked at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/National Library of Medicine (NLM) since 2000. He is currently the Director of the Customer Services Division at NCBI. He was in charge of developing and running the NIHMS at its inception in 2005, when the voluntary NIH Public Access Policy was announced. Since that time, over 700,000 author manuscripts have been processed and archived in PubMed Central. He also manages My NCBI, which includes the tools SciENcv and My Bibliography. Researchers can use SciENcv to quickly fill out an NIH biosketch profile and My Bibliography to store their supported citations and associate them with awards for reporting on the RPPR.


Elisabeth (Lis) Unger
Technical Information Specialist, Collection Access Section, Systems Unit

Areas of Content/Subject Expertise: DOCLINE, Interlibrary Loan, Resource Sharing, OCLC Relais, Agile development, analytics and reporting

Lis Unger became the DOCLINE Team Lead in August 2015. Ms. Unger has been working at NLM for 12 years, all within Collection Access Section (CAS). Prior to becoming DOCLINE Team Lead, Lis served as the customer service primary, and was involved in all aspects of DOCLINE documentation and development. During that time Lis also supported systems used by CAS, including Relais, and provided technical support and data reporting to the entire unit.

Prior to joining NLM, Ms. Unger was the Deputy Project Manager for Document Delivery at the National Agricultural Library. She earned her MLIS from Drexel University in 1997.


Zoe Unno, PhD, MLIS
Zoe Pettway Unno, PhD, MLIS, is an Education and Outreach Librarian with the Network of the National Library of Medicine in the Pacific Southwest Region at UCLA. Dr. Unno provides training in data management, citizen science, and precision medicine using National Library of Medicine resources. She has worked in medical, academic, and marine libraries, in addition to her experience as a researcher and biology and environmental science instructor.


Alan VanBiervliet, PhD
Program Official, Extramural Programs
National Library of Medicine, NIH

Dr. Alan VanBiervliet received his Ph.D. in Human Development with a Special Emphasis in Computer Science from the University of Kansas. As a teacher and scientist, he has held faculty positions at the University of Otago, NZ, University of Illinois, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. During that time, he continually received research grants and contracts from federal, state, and private sources. He has been a full professor of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and Education during his academic career. His research activities ranged from consumer health informatics to clinical research informatics. He joined the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 2010 as an Extramural Program Official. At NLM he manages a research portfolio focusing on consumer health informatics, clinical research informatics, information and data science, and the Network of National Library of Medicine.


Sharon R. Willis
Sharon R. Willis, MLS, is the Senior Cataloging Specialist at the National Library of Medicine, Technical Services Division, Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS). She serves as the chair of the NLM Classification Editorial Team, the NLM coordinator for the CIP (Cataloging-In-Publication) program, and the CaMMS liaison to the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) External Review Panel. She is a past chair of the MLA Technical Services Section (2018-19), former chair of the Leiter Committee (2017-18), and a member of the African American Medical Librarians Alliance.