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About the Speakers
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist who resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has achieved national renown as an author, editor, and consumer advocate. In addition to heading Quackwatch, he is vice-president of the National Council Against Health Fraud; a Scientific Advisor to the American Council on Science and Health; and a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and, in March 2001 received the Distinguished Service to Health Education Award from the American Association for Health Education.
An expert in medical communications, Dr. Barrett operates five Web sites; edits Consumer Health Digest (a free weekly electronic newsletter); writes weekly columns for Canoe.ca and Health Scout; is medical editor of Prometheus Books; and is peer-review panelist for several top medical journals. His 48 books include The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America and six editions of the college textbook Consumer Health. His other classics include Dubious Cancer Treatment, published by the Florida Division of the American Cancer Society; Health Schemes, Scams, and Frauds, published by Consumer Reports Books; The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry Is Selling America a Bill of Goods, published by Prometheus Books; and Reader's Guide to "Alternative" Health Methods, published by the American Medical Association.
Joel Buchanan, M.D.
As Medical Director of Information Systems at University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (UWHC), Dr. Buchanan guides the implementation of the electronic medical record system. Dr. Buchanan developed Clinical References on the Intranet, an intranet web portal used at UWHC to provide access to clinical reference material. Dr. Buchanan trains medical students, residents and faculty physicians to use computerized clinical references. Also, Dr. Buchanan is a co-investigator for the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) planning grant at the University of Wisconsin. He serves on the UW Health Sciences Libraries Policy Advisory Committee.
Valerie Florance, Ph.D.
Valerie Florance, Ph.D., is a Program Officer in Extramural Programs at the National Library of Medicine. She is responsible for a portfolio of grants that includes Integrated Advanced Academic Management Systems (IAIMS), other health science library resource grants, and several categories of informatics research grants. Before coming to NLM, she was Project Director for better_health @ here.now at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and principal investigator of IAIMS: The Next Generation, N01-LM-9-3523, a contract between AAMC and the National Library of Medicine.
Until October 1998, she was Director of Academic Computing at the University of Rochester Medical Center, a position which included responsibility for the Edward G. Miner Library. There, she held faculty appointments in informatics in the School of Medicine & Dentistry and the School of Nursing. Before moving to Rochester, Dr. Florance was Deputy Director at the William H. Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University. She began her health information sciences career at the University of Utah, as editor of MEDOC: Computerized Index to Government Documents in the Health & Information Sciences. She has been a member of the Biomedical Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine, and was a member of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences study that published its report "Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet" in June 2000.
Dr. Florance holds graduate degrees in library sciences and medical anthropology and completed her doctoral studies in information sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1993, she received MLA's Ida and George Eliot prize for her article " The health sciences librarian as knowledge worker", co- authored with Nina Matheson. In 1995, she received the Eliot prize again for her article "Educating physicians to use the digital library, " co-authored by Sherrilynne Fuller, Robert Braude and Mark Frisse. From the 16th edition in 1992/93 through the 20th Edition in 1997/98, she was editor of the Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada, published by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. Dr. Florance speaks frequently on topics related to information management and information technology futures in academic medicine.
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, M.S., M.A.
Ms. Micaela Sullivan-Fowler is the history of medicine librarian and curator of the Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin's Middleton Health Sciences Library. The Collections, made up of books, journals, and pamphlets encompassing the years 1492 to the present, are used by students, scholars, faculty and the occasional public. Micaela mentors over 50 history of health science graduate and undergraduate students a semester, helping them hone their historical arguments and track down esoteric resources. She also handles the gifts and donations that come to the Library, spearheads the library's preservation initiatives and spends a lot of time and energy contemplating (and eventually executing) various electronic and document delivery projects for older material. Before coming to UW she was a free-lance researcher and before that a clinical and historical librarian at the American Medical Association in Chicago. Micaela's publications include two books on finding viable health care information on the Web and three journal articles on the history of 19th and 17th century health care. Most recently she authored two chapters on quality health information on the web in the 6th edition of Alan Rees' Consumer Health Information Source Book. Micaela's proudest moments are when she can tell she is winning the perennial battle over retaining material that others might throw away. Whether convincing her husband to save the old Gourmet magazines, or a colleague that infant care brochures from the 1920s may be valuable, Micaela's passion projects. Her two children appear to be following in her footsteps, neither of them having thrown away school papers or art projects since 1994.
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