Sacajawea
Dr. Monica Mayer
Joseph Janes
Dr. Mary Wakefield
Ann McKibbon
Dr. Monica Mayer, MD
Keynote Speaker
Sunday, September 18
Sponsored by Elsevier
Dr. Mayer's Indian name is "Good Medicine." She was born and raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town, North Dakota where she is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Tribes.
She graduated in 1978 from New Town High School where she was a two-time all-state girls basketball player for North Dakota. She graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. She taught biology at Coconino High School in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dr. Mayer attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to complete pre-medicine studies and graduated from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine in 1995. While at UND she served in the United States Army Reserves from 1984-1990 as an army medic and medical supply specialist.
Her residency training for family medicine was completed in 1999 at UND Family Practice Center in Minot, North Dakota. She returned to her hometown after that to start her practice at the Trinity Community Clinic-New Town, where she is employed by Trinity Health in Minot.
Dr. Mayer will be giving a speech about the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Joseph Janes, PhD, MLS
Sunday, September 18
Joseph Janes is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academics at the Information School of the University of Washington and Founding Director of the Internet Public Library. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the co-author of eight books on librarianship, technology, and their relationship. He wrote Introduction to Reference Work in the Digital Age and writes the "Internet Librarian" column for American Libraries magazine. He holds an M.L.S and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany as well as at Syracuse and Washington.
Joseph Janes will be speaking on "Reference of the Future." He says that what we have traditionally known as "reference" looks very different today than it did even five years ago. We have new resources, new modes of interacting with new kinds of users with new information needs in several new contexts. This presents an exciting challenge, to adopt and adapt our practice to this new information world... and a vague sense of unease that perhaps the days for "reference" as we have known it are numbered. In this session, we'll look at what may or may not be happening to reference work and where we might go from here.
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Mary K. Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN
Monday, Sept. 19
Dr. Mary Wakefield is Associate Dean for Rural Health, and Director of the Center for Rural Health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND .
Dr. Wakefield has expertise in rural health care, quality and patient safety, Medicare payment policy, workforce issues, and the public policy process. She has presented nationally and internationally on public policy and strategies to influence the policymaking and political process. She has written many articles and columns on health policy and she is on the editorial board of a number of professional journals, including Journal of Rural Health, Nursing Economics, and Annals of Family Medicine.
From 1996 through 2001, Dr. Wakefield served as professor and Director of the Center for Health Policy, Research, and Ethics at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. From 1993 to 1995 she was the chief of staff for U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). From 1987 until 1992, Dr. Wakefield served as legislative assistant and Chief of Staff to Senator Quentin Burdick (D-ND). Throughout her tenure on Capitol Hill, Dr. Wakefield advised on a range of public health policy issues, drafted legislative proposals, and worked with interest groups and other Senate offices.
Dr. Wakefield serves on many health-related advisory boards on the local, state and national levels. Currently, she is a member of the Health Services Board, Institute of Medicine; commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (which is responsible for advising the U.S. Congress on the Medicare program); and serves on the Catholic Health Initiatives Board of Stewardship Trustees.
Dr. Wakefield will be speaking on Patient Safety. Her objectives are:
1) To describe medical errors in the context of quality problems.
2) To delineate current organizational and public policy efforts to improve patient safety.
3) To evaluate challenges to error reduction and opportunities for improvement.
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Ann McKibbon, PhD, MLS
Monday, Sept. 19
Sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Ann McKibbon has worked as a medical librarian since 1972 in academic and special libraries, although most of her time was spent in the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She worked on research projects related to information retrieval and evidence-based health care, including evaluation of MEDLINE systems and the development and testing of the Clinical Queries in PubMed. She was responsible for all administrative aspects of ACP Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine, Evidence-Based Nursing and Evidence-Based Mental Health before she went to the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh for her PhD. She is studying if a physician's attitude towards risk and uncertainty affects how he or she uses information resources.
Ann's role at the Midwest Chapter meeting is twofold. She will speak on "Evidence-Based Healthcare Past, Present, and Future and Implications for Librarians." Many changes have taken place since the 1980s when clinicians were taught how to read journals. Almost all of the changes have implications for librarians. We must work to enhance potential partnerships between them and health professionals.
Ann will also give a half-day workshop that is designed to help librarians understand clinical research articles and how they are used to make health care decisions by clinicians. The workshop is a basic overview of evidence-based healthcare principles. It will be useful for beginners who want a broad perspective of published health care research and also for those librarians who have had experience working with clinical literature and want to hone their skills. The workshop includes substantial hands on time.