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Announcing Faculty and Peer Coaches for 2025 Research Training Institute

Submitted by: Mark MacEachern

The Research Training Institute (RTI) team is pleased to announce the faculty and peer coaches for the 2025 RTI online program.

The Faculty

  • Caitlin Bakker, MLIS, AHIP, is a discovery technologies librarian at the University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library and Archives.
  • Ana Cleveland, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, Academic Coordinator, is a regents professor, Sarah Law Kennerly Endowed professor, and director of the Health Informatics Program at the University of North Texas.
  • Nina Exner, PhD, MLS, MA, is the research data librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University. 
  • Karen E. Gutzman, MSLS, MA, is head of Research Assessment and Communications at Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University.
  • Mark MacEachern, MLIS, Co-Faculty Lead, is an informationist at the Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor.
  • Ann Medaille, PhD, MSLS, MA, is the director of Research and Instructional Services at the University of Nevada, Reno; and editor-in-chief of the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
  • Jodi Philbrick, PhD, AHIP, is a principal lecturer at the College of Information, Department of Information Sciences, University of North Texas–Denton.
  • Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, is the founding RTI director.
  • Emily Vardell, PhD, AHIP, Co-Faculty Lead, is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University, Emporia, KS.

The Peer Coaches

  • Emily Gilbert, MSLS, is an assistant professor and liaison librarian in the Library of the Health Sciences at University of Illinois Chicago. 
  • Alla Iansavitchene, MLIS, is a clinical librarian at the London Health Sciences Centre. 
  • Juliana Magro, MLS, MA, is the education and research librarian at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. 
  • Laura Menard, MLS, is a health sciences librarian at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
  • Mary Margaret Thomas, MLIS, is a clinical education librarian at the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

These RTI faculty and peer coaches will be instrumental in sustaining and enhancing the high-quality RTI learning model that educates health sciences librarians about research methods and empowers them to complete their own projects. We are deeply grateful to them for providing their expertise, time, and enthusiasm to make the RTI a huge success.

We would also like to thank the current RTI ’24 peer coaches (Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, Rachel Hinrichs, Colleen Foy, Nicky Nickum, and Kearin Reid) for their indispensable contributions to the RTI learning experience. 

Learn more about the 2025 RTI faculty and peer coaches as well as the RTI program. Consider joining a welcoming and supportive network of research colleagues!