Featured Speakers

Mosaic '16 will offer three featured speakers. 

John P. McGovern Award Lecturer

Sponsored by EBSCO Health

The Annual John P. McGovern Award Lectureship, established in 1983, honors John P. McGovern, MD, noted physician, educator, author, and medical historian. The lectureship recognizes significant national or international figures who speak on a topic of importance to health sciences librarianship. View past McGovern recipients.

Ben Goldacre 

Ben Goldacre is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specializes in unpicking scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, public relations companies, and quacks. He was trained in medicine at Oxford and London, and currently works as an academic in epidemiology. Goldacre wrote the weekly “Bad Science” column in the Guardian from 2003–2011. His book, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks (4th Estate, 2010), has sold over half a million copies worldwide, reached #1 in the paperback nonfiction charts, and has been published in 31 languages. In his second book, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (4th Estate, 2012), Goldacre puts the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope to reveal flaws throughout the ecosystem of evidence-based medicine. In October 2014, he published his collected journalism in a volume, titled I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That (4th Estate).

Janet Doe Lecturer

The Janet Doe Lectureship was established in 1966 by an anonymous donation to support a lecture in honor of Janet Doe (1895–1985), former librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine, historical scholar, past president of the association, and editor of the first two editions of the Medical Library Practice handbook.The lectureship is awarded to individuals for their unique perspectives on the history or philosophy of medical librarianship.

M.J. Tooey, AHIP, FMLA

M.J. Tooey, AHIP, FMLA, is associate vice president, Academic Affairs, and executive director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, at the University of Maryland−Baltimore, where she has worked in various library positions since 1986. She is also the director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Southeastern/Atlantic Regional Medical Library, under contract with the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. She received her master of library science degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her bachelor of science degree in education from Clarion State University (formerly, Clarion State College).

Tooey served as MLA president from 2005–2006 and was elected a Fellow of the association in 2009. She has also served on MLA’s Board of Directors (1998–2001) and as the chair of the 2004 National Program Committee for MLA ’04. In 1997, she received the MLA Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year. 

She co-teaches an MLA continuing education course, “Do You Want to Be a Library Director,” and currently serves on the Joint MLA/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Legislative Task Force.

She is the 2011 recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences.

Tooey is the author or coauthor of over 100 chapters, articles, presentations, or posters. Her professional interests include leadership, emerging trends, library innovation and design, ethics, and mentoring (so she can retire).

She is hopelessly devoted to her husband, daughter, and new son-in-law and is an occasional avid gardener.

Tooey’s career goals are to retire without killing anyone, remember what is truly important in life, and not take herself too seriously.

Closing Keynote

On Wednesday, all attendees are invited to attend the closing keynote presented by Dr. Ellen Jorgensen.

Ellen Jorgensen

Dr. Ellen Jorgensen is cofounder and director of Genspace, a nonprofit community laboratory dedicated to promoting citizen science and access to biotechnology. In 2011, she initiated Genspace’s award-winning curriculum of informal science education for adults, and in 2014, Genspace was named one of the World’s Top 10 Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company magazine. Jorgensen’s efforts to develop Genspace into a haven for entrepreneurship, innovation, and citizen science have been chronicled by Nature Medicine, Science, Discover Magazine, Wired, Make, BBC News, The Economist, Forbes, PBS News Hour, Discovery Channel, and the New York Times. Jorgensen has a doctorate in molecular biology from New York University, spent thirty years in the biotech industry, and is currently adjunct faculty at New York Medical College, the School of Visual Arts, and Cooper Union. Jorgensen’s talk, “Biohacking: You Can Do It, Too,” at TEDGlobal 2012 has received over a million views.