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Associate Director of Public Services, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2007–

Previous Professional Positions (Last Fifteen Years)

Education coordinator, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1997–2007; adjunct faculty, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2001 –; library director, Rowan Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, NC; coordinator of information services, Northwest Area Health Education Center, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 1990–1997.

MLA Official Activities (Last Fifteen Years)

National: member 1979– ;Board of Directors: member 2005–2008; MLANET Editor Search Committee: chair 2006–2007; CORE Task Force: chair 2002–2005; National Program Committee Technology Advisory Group: member 2003; Nominating Committee: member 1998–1999; MLANET Editor Search Committee: chair 1998; MLANET Task Force: member 1995–1998; 1998 National Program Committee: member 1995–1998; Bulletinof the Medical Library Association Evaluation Committee: member 1992–1995. Section: Hospital Libraries Section: member 1979–2003; Web editor 1999–2002; Web Task Force: member 1998–1999; Standards Committee: chair 1991–1994. Leadership and Management Section: member 2004–. Chapter: Mid-Atlantic Chapter: member 1990–; Program Committee: member 2004–2005; Strategic Planning Task Force: member 1999–2002; immediate past chair 1996–1997, chapter chair 1995–1996, chapter chair-elect 1994–1995; Program Committee: member 1993–1994.

Other Professional Activities (Last Fifteen Years)

Journal of Hospital Librarianship: Editorial Board: member 1999–2005. McMaster University: “How to Teach Evidence Based Clinical Practice,” faculty tutor 2000–.

Professional Honors

Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award, MLA, 2006. Outstanding Service Award, Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2003. National Library of Medicine: Medical Informatics Fellowship at Woods Hole, 2002. Mid-Atlantic Chapter: MAC Librarian of the Year, 1997. Academy of Health Information Professionals: Distinguished Member 1995–.

Education

Master’s, library science, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1979; BA, art history, University of California–Berkeley, 1970.

Publications (Last Five Years)

Schardt C, Adams MB, Owens T, Keitz S, Fontelo P. Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2007 Jun 15;7–16.
Patel MR, Schardt CM, Sanders LL, Keitz SA. Randomized trial for answers to clinical questions: evaluating a pre-appraised versus a MEDLINE search protocol. J Med Libr Assoc 2006 Oct;94(4):382–7.
Schulman SR, Schardt C, Erb TO. Evidence-based medicine in anesthesiology. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2002 Dec;15(6):661–8.
Moyer V, Schardt C. Finding the evidence, In: Moyer V, Elliott E, eds. Evidence-based pediatrics and child health. London, UK: BMJ Books, 2004.
Crowley, SD, Owens, TA, Schardt, CM, Wardell, SI, Peterson, J, Garrison, S, Keitz, SA. A Web-based compendium of clinical questions and medical evidence to educate internal medicine residents. Acad Med 2003 Mar;78(3):270–4.
Garrison JA, Anderson TL, MacDonald MH, Schardt CM, Thibodeau, PL. Supporting PDAs: the experience of a health science library. Library Hi Tech 2003;21(4):412–8.
Schardt CM, Garrison J, Kochi JK. Distance education or classroom instruction for continuing education: who retains more knowledge? J Med Libr Assoc 2002 Oct;90(4):455–7.
Muir AJ, Schardt CM, Keitz SA. Applying evidence to the care of a patient with hepatitis C: how to develop a focused clinical question. Sem Med Pract Sep 2002;5(3):1–12.

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