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NLM Informationist Fellowships and Institutional Hosts

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MLA lists those institutions that are interested in sponsoring one of the NLM Fellowships for Informationist Training. An institution can express interest in hosting a candidate, even if a candidate has not yet been identified. Eligibility requirements for fellows and sponsoring institutions are available in the fellowship descriptions (see below).

Before submitting a fellowship application, the applicant must identify a sponsoring institution and an individual or individuals who will serve as a sponsor (also called mentor or supervisor) and will supervise the fellow’s studies and research experience.

To apply for support, an institution must submit an application on behalf of the individual seeking the fellowship. Applications on behalf of prospective fellows may be submitted by domestic nonprofit organizations, public or private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of state or local government, and eligible agencies of the federal government.

NLM defines informationists as "information specialists who have received graduate training and practical experience that provides them with disciplinary background both in medical or biological sciences and in information sciences/informatics." Consider adding your institution's name to our list! Send your institution's name, Website, and contact information to Evelyn Shaevel, <mlaedo1@mlahq.org>.

To top of page NLM Fellowships for Informationist Training

Two fellowship categories are available, as noted below:

NLM Individual Fellowship for Informationist Training
The NLM Individual Fellowship for Informationist Training provides support for experienced librarians, scientists, health professionals and others who wish to become in-context information specialists.

Priority areas for informationist training are:

  • clinical informationist – to work in health care delivery and clinical research
  • research informationist – to work in biomedical research, research administration, or scientific curation
  • public health informationist – to work in public health at the national, regional or local level
  • consumer health informationist – to work with the general public on health information issues

These fellowships are intended for health sciences librarians, scientists, health professionals and others who wish to broaden their existing scientific background by acquiring the additional disciplinary knowledge and experience to function as an informationist. This award can be used in conjunction with a sabbatical experience.

The candidates for this award will have an appropriate graduate degree for professional practice in their field, such as a research or health- professional doctorate for researchers and clinicians. The requirement for a doctoral degree need not apply to candidates in the following professional fields: engineering, computer science, library and information sciences, nursing. However, graduate preparation for professional practice is required in those fields.

To top of page Institutions Interested in Sponsoring an NLM Informationist Fellow

The following institutions have indicated their interest in sponsoring one of the National Library of Medicine Fellowships for Informationist Training. An institution should be contacted directly. Last updated Feb. 23, 2004.

Institution
Institutional Contact
Duke University, Medical Center Library, Durham, NC

Duke University, Division of Clinical Informatics, Durham, NC		 Patricia Thibodeau
thibo001@mc.duke.edu
Tel., 919.660.1150
Johns Hopkins University, Welch Medical Library, Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Baltimore, MD 		Nancy Roderer
nroderer@jhmi.edu
Tel., 410.502.7092
Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Portland, OR William Hersh
hersh@ohsu.edu
University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Library, Tucson AZ Gary Freiburger
garyf@AHSL.arizona.edu
520-626-6121
University of Florida, Health Science Center Libraries, Gainesville, FL Faith A. Meakin
Faith@library.health.ufl.edu
Tel., 352.392.4016
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Informatics Institute, Newark, NJ William Welsh
welshwj@umdnj.edu
Tel., 973.972.0154
University of Washington, Health Sciences Libraries, Seattle, WA Sherrilynne Fuller
sfuller@u.washington.edu
Tel., 206.543.5531
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Eskind Biomedical Library, Nashville, TN Nunzia B. Giuse
nunzia.giuse@vanderbilt.edu
Tel., 615.936.1402

Nila Sathe
nila.sathe@vanderbilt.edu
Tel., 615.936.1553
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Richmond, VA Jean P. Shipman
jpshipma@vcu.edu
Tel., 804.828.0634

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