NLM @ MLA - 2017

[Editor's note added June 7, 2017: Recordings of the NLM Theater presentations are available.]

The Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA) will be held May 26-31, 2017, at the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington. Attendees are invited to visit the NLM exhibit booth 309 (May 28-30) to meet NLM staff and see NLM Web products and services. The NLM Theater at the booth will feature demonstrations and tutorials on a wide variety of topics. All presentations are recorded and made available on the NLM Web site shortly after the meeting.

NLM Update

Tuesday, May 30 (11:00 am – 11:55 am)
Location: Ballroom 6
Speakers:
     Joyce Backus, Associate Director for Library Operations
     Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director and Interim NIH Associate Director for Data Science
     Daniel R. Masys, Co-Chair, Board of Regents Strategic Planning Committee and Affiliate Professor, Biomedical and
          Health Informatics, University of Washington School of Medicine
     Amanda J. Wilson, Head, National Network Coordinating Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Leiter Lecture

Wednesday, May 31 (9:00 AM - 10:00 AM)
Location: Ballroom 6
Speaker: Patricia Flatley Brennan

Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the first nurse and first female to serve as permanent head of the library in its 180-year history. Brennan came to NLM from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, and led the Living Environments Laboratory (http://wid.wisc.edu/research/lel/) at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (http://wid.wisc.edu/). Her pioneering research in the use of information technology to support patients and care givers has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others.

Dr. Brennan is a past president of the American Medical Informatics Association, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Academy of Nursing, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Brennan received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Delaware, a master of science degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctoral degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Following seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing and psychiatric nursing, she held several academic positions at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition, she spent a year at NLM in 2002 to 2003 as a visiting senior scientist at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.

NLM Theater Schedule, Booth 309

Recordings of the NLM Theater presentations are available.

Join Us

Please join us at the NLM Update and visit us at booth 309! Additional information or changes to this information will be added to this article when they become available.