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Candidate Information: President-elect

(one to be elected)

The following candidates have been selected by the MLA Nominating Committee to stand for election for the 2007/08 association year (president-elect takes office in May 2007). Note: the order of candidate information was determined by a random drawing of names.

Gary D. Byrd, AHIP

Gary D. Byrd, AHIP

Director, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, 1995–
Previous Professional Positions (Last Fifteen Years)

Assistant director for finance, planning and research, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1989–1994

MLA Official Activities (Last Fifteen Years)

National: member 1971–; Journal of the Medical Library Association Editorial Board: member 1988–19 96, 2004–20 07, proceedings editor 1989–19 96, guest editor 2006– ; Nominating Committee: member 2003–2004; Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Jury: member 2002–2003; Joint MLA/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Legislative Task Force: member 1995–2000, chair 1998–2000; 1997 National Program Committee: Section Council liaison 1995–1997; Section Council: member 1994–1997; “Introduction to Financial Management,” ”Writing for Publication”: continuing education course instructor 1989–. Section: Research Section: member 1992–; Executive Committee: member 1995– 2003, chair-elect and chair 1998–2000; research mentoring coordinator 1996–2001; Section Council representative 1994–1997. Medical Informatics Section: member 1988–; chair 1989–1990. Chapter: Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter: member 1995–; MLA Nominating Committee nominee 2002–2003. Mid-Atlantic Chapter: member 1989–1994.

Other Professional Activities (Last Fifteen Years)

American Medical Informatics Association: member 2000–; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Editorial Board: member 2006–. Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL): Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force: member 1995–2000, chair 1998–2000; AAMC Council of Academic Societies: appointed representative 2002–; Annual Statistics Editorial Board: member 2004–2008; Assessment and Statistics Committee: member 2005–2008, chair 2005–2008. Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): Group on Information Resources Program Planning Committee: member 2000–2001; Council of Academic Societies (CAS): CAS Scholarly Publishing Study: project director 2003–2005. Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Consortium: Board of Directors: member 1999–2004. National Library of Medicine: University Medical Informatics Research (T-15) Training Program Special Emphasis Review Panel: member May 2006; Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee: member 2001–2005; site review team for Regional Medical Library contract proposals: member December 2000. SUNY Council of Library Directors: Executive Board: member 1995–1997; Doctoral Degree‑Granting Campuses Section: convener 1995–1997; Task Force on Wider Access to Information: member 1996; Library Statistics Advisory Team for the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services: member 2001–2002. National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region: Resource and Area Library Directors Group: member 1995–; “Health Sciences Distance Education: Models for Successful Collaboration” (technology awareness conference): planner and host April 1997; Electronic Document Delivery Study Task Force: member 2002. University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences: Board of Visitors: member 2006–2008.

Professional Honors

National Library of Medicine: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, medical informatics course fellow, 2003. MLA Research Award (MLA Research Section; for best research paper presented at MLA ’03), with K. C. Wagner, 2003. MLA Doctoral Fellowship (sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information), 1992. RS Blackwell North America Scholarship Award (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, for year’s outstanding publication in the field of acquisitions, collection development, or related areas of resource development in libraries), 1991. Academy of Health Information Professionals: Distinguished Member 1990–. Beta Phi Mu (Library Science Honor Society), 1972–. Fellowship in Biomedical Librarianship (National Library of Medicine, for master’s studies at the University of Minnesota), 1971–1972. Phi Beta Kappa, 1966–.

Education

BA, English literature (magna cum laude, Henry Rutgers Scholar), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1967; MA, English literature, University of Virginia–Charlottesville, 1971; MALS, library science, University of Minnesota–Minneapolis, 1972; PhD, Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1995.

Publications (Last Five Years)
Connie Schardt, AHIP

To top of page Connie Schardt, AHIP

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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