FORUM MODERATOR: EUGENIE PRIME

Eugenie Prime recently retired from Hewlett Packard Company where she served as manager of corporate libraries for 17 years. She lectures internationally in the areas of strategic planning, knowledge management and digital libraries. She has served on the library advisory board to John Wiley and Sons and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, which she chaired from 2003-2004.

Keynote Speaker: J. Edward Hill, MD, President, American Medical Association

J. Edward Hill, MD, a family physician from Tupelo, Mississippi, was elected three times to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT), and became its Chair in 2002. Dr. Hill was elected President-Elect in June, 2004, and assumed the Presidency in June, 2005. Prior to his election to the Board of Trustees, he served as an AMA Delegate from the Mississippi State Medical Association since 1984 after beginning service as an Alternate Delegate in 1979. In 1990 he was appointed by the Board of Trustees to the AMA’s Council on Legislation and served as its Vice Chair from 1995 to 1996.In addition to his active participation in the AMA, Dr. Hill has served in a variety of leadership positions in other medical organizations. He has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Mississippi State Medical Association, President of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians, an Alternate Delegate and Delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians, and President of the Southern Medical Association.In addition to his busy professional life, Dr. Hill is also an active participant and leader in community activities. He has served as President of the Mississippi Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Chair of the Industrial Development Committee for his local Chamber of Commerce, member of the Advisory Board for his county Head Start program, President of his local school board, and a member of the Board of Directors of his church.

Moderator: Heidi Sandstrom

Heidi Sandstrom is the Associate Director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region (NN/LM PSR).  She has been with this program for nearly ten years, working in the areas of resource sharing, consumer health outreach, and now program planning, implementation, and evaluation.  Heidi is passionate about improving access to health information, especially as it relates to the health literacy needs of the public.  In 2004 Heidi facilitated a west coast regional symposium, Stake Your Claim to Health Literacy; from 2003-2005 she served on the Health Information Literacy Task Force of the Medical Library Association.  She has a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Nursing degree from Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.  Before attending graduate school, Heidi worked as a registered nurse/certified public health nurse in clinical, instructional, and hospital quality improvement settings.

Moderator: Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu

Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu has been a Health Librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1999, following an extensive career in the field of disabilities. She is also an adjunct faculty in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and a guest lecturer in the College of Information Studies. She received a B.A. in Human Development from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, two M.S. degrees, one in special education and the other in adaptive computer technology, from The Johns Hopkins University, a Ph.D. in Augmentative and Alternative Communication from Purdue University, and a M.L.S. from the University of Maryland. As a librarian faculty, the focus of her interests and scholarship has been on information literacy, evidence-based practice, and health literacy. Professionally, she has been very active in the area of public health and serves as a volunteer consultant to a community-based, health information access project in Prince George’s County, MD supported by grants from the National Library of Medicine. She also teaches English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) through the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, MD.

Literature Review: Libraries Meeting Community Health Needs: Trends and Issues - revised January 19, 2006 (PDF)

Moderator: Karen Motylewski

Karen Motylewski is Evaluation Officer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services  (http://www.imls.gov).  IMLS is an independent federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and life-long learning by helping libraries and museums enhance their capacities, sustain our cultural heritage, and ensure broad use of a rich spectrum of information and learning resources.  She is responsible for helping IMLS's communities strengthen their capacity for planning, assessment, and reporting, with a strong focus on outcomes-results for people. Karen holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University.  Before joining IMLS in 1999, she served as Director of Field Service for Northeast Document Conservation Center in Massachusetts (1986 to 1995), and as Senior Lecturer and Director of Conservation and Preservation Studies at the University of Texas (Austin) Information School (1995-1999).  In those capacities she taught and consulted with staff of hundreds of libraries, museums, and other cultural collections on needs assessment, planning for collections preservation, and emergency preparedness.  Her approach to evaluation responds to the nature of libraries and museums as educational organizations with broad audiences and complex responsibilities, and as institutions that need effective ways to communicate their public value to a wide spectrum of stakeholders.