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Cross Boundaries - Join Forces |
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Nordic Baltic EAHIL Workshop |
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| June 25-28 2003 Oslo, Norway |
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Cross Boundaries - Join Forces |
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Nordic Baltic EAHIL Workshop |
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| June 25-28 2003 Oslo, Norway |
| Speakers | |
| Thursday afternoon 26.06. | |
| 1340 | Magne
Nylenna
(b. 1952) qualified as a physician in 1977. He is a specialist in social
medicine and received his M.D. at the University of Oslo in 1988. Magne
Nylenna has worked as a general practitioner and as a hospital
physician, in addition to carrying out research and teaching. He
has been the author and editor of a great number of publications, both
for professionals and for the general public. He has also been the
chief editor of the medical encyclopaedia in 5 volumes which is
published by Kunnskapforlaget. From 1987 to 2002 he was editor of the
Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening (Journal of the Norwegian
Medical Association), and was the general secretary of the Association
from 1.1.2002 to 1.2.2003. He is a member of the steering committee of
the 400th anniversary celebrations for the Norwegian public health
services. |
| 1400 | Eve-Marie
Lacroix is
Chief of the Public Services Division at the National Library of
Medicine. She directs
NLM’s programs to provide access to the extensive NLM collection
through the onsite Reading Room and the DOCLINE interlibrary loan
network, centralized Reference and Customer Services, and NLM’s main
Web service. She is responsible for developing and maintaining
MEDLINEplus, an extensive Web resource organizing health information for
consumers, launched in 1998. Prior
to joining NLM in 1985, she headed Information Services at CISTI, the
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, where she was
responsible for developing and maintaining two Canadian national online
information systems, as well as national reference and research services
in science, technology and medicine.
Ms. Lacroix received a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.S. in Science Information from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is an active member of the Medical Library Association, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the European Association of Health Information Libraries. Email: lacroix@nlm.nih.gov Managing health information – we’re in it together |
| 1430 | Harald Siem MD, MPH, Ambassador, leader of the Task Force Secretariat, Ministry of Health (Norway). Medical training in Basle, Switzerland, Oxford, UK, and Oslo, Norway. MPH from Harvard, US. Eight years as district medical officer at the west coast of Norway. Research and teaching at the Oslo University in epidemiology and clinical decision analysis. Assistant to the Commissioner of Health for Oslo. Director for programme on occupational safety and health under the Norwegian Employers' Confederation. Eleven years in Geneva as director for health programmes for the International Organization for Migration and Interagency Co-operation in WHO. Special Representative for the Director General to Moscow spring 1999. |
| 1600 | Maurice
Long,
BMJ Group (UK) Maurice Long has been involved in publishing for 35 years, working for a number of publishers in the UK, including Oxford University Press. Since 1982 he has been with the British Medical Journal Publishing Group. He has been seconded by the BMJ to work closely with the World Health Organization in the development of its key health information programme, the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI). He is currently working with the Food and Agriculture Organization in developing the AGORA programme in which it is hoped that key journals and other information will be made available for free or low priced access to food and agriculture researchers in the developing nations. |
| 1630 | Irena
Miseviciene is
the Director of the Institute for Biomedical Research of Kaunas
University of Medicine, Lithuania. She is also vice rector for
research at the university. Professor Miseviciene received her
doctorate in cardiology in 1981 and in preventive medicine in 1990.
She has held a variety of research and excecutive posts at the
university since 1975. She is a member of various government
bodies including the National Health Council and the National Research
Council Advisory Committee. From 1998 to 2000 she was a member of
the European Advisory Committee for Health Research.
Disease control and health literacy: The Lithuanian experience |
| 1700 | Preben
Aavitsland (b.
1963) qualified as a physician in 1991. Since then he has worked at the
Norwegian Institute of Public Health where he no is Director of
Preparedness and Director of the Department of Infectious Disease
Epidemiology. He is also associate editor of the journals Tidsskrift for
Den norske lægeforening (Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association),
Epidemiology & Infection and EpiNorth. He has recently been elected
chair of the Council of European State Epidemiologists. He has worked
extensively with colleagues in North West Russia, Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania. His research interests are epidemiology and prevention of HIV
infection and other sexually transmitted infections. Combatting infectious diseases in Northern Europe: The importance of information exchange |
| Friday 27.06. | |
| 0900 | Olof
Sundin
is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science,
Högskolan i Borås. He qualified as a librarian in 1994 and has worked
as a librarian at a nursing school. He obtained a Ph.D. in library and
information science at Göteborg University in the spring of 2003. His
thesis explores nurses' relation to professional information at the
workplace.
Professional information and the development of the nursing profession |
| 0930 | Liisa
Salmi Kuopio University Library, Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library (Finland) Liisa Salmi, born in 1942 in Helsinki, Finland M.A. in 1965 University of Turku, Finland; M.S.(Hons.) in 1973 Columbia University, New York City, NY; Various positions in Turku University Library 1963-1976; Librarian, Kuopio University Library, Kuopio, Finland 1979- Chief Medical Librarian of Kuopio University Library 1985-; Deputy Director of Kuopio University Library 1999- ; During her career she has worked in almost all fields of academic librarianship and her special interest is in information services. Evidence-based nursing and libraries: Do we find what we are searching? |
| 1000 | Anne-Marie
Haraldstad is head librarian at the University of Oslo Library;
Library of Medicine and Health Sciences, which serves both the Medical
Faculty and the National Hospital. Anne-Marie Haraldstad is in charge of
the Department of User Education, working with the creation and
implementation of information literacy programmess for students,
researchers and hospital staff. She qualified as a librarian in 1977.
Information literacy: Curriculum integration - an investment in lifelong learning |
| 1100 | Velta
Poznaka is
director of the Medical Research Library of Latvia since
2001. She has been there for 25 years, and has worked in almost
all departments of the library. Take for honor to manage the
library with hard-working and enthusiastic staff. It allowed to receive
an Award of Ministry of Culture in 2002. She is participating
in all activities organized by Latvian libraries and is head of the
Association of Baltic Medical Libraries. Velta Poznaka is a coordinator
of Sister library project from the Latvian side.
Donna Flake is the Library Director at the Coastal AHEC Library in Wilmington, NC in the USA. She has a Master’s Degree in Library Science and a 2nd Master’s Degree in Health Administration. She has been an advocate of international medical librarianship for many years. From 1995-2001 she served as the Medical Library Association’s representative of EAHIL. In the 1980s she participated in a job exchange with a medical librarian from England. Today she is coauthoring a paper on one of her favorite topics- the MLA Sister Library Initiative. A special sister library program (US and Latvia) crosses the ocean |
| 1130 | Meile
Kretaviciene
is
director of the Kaunas University of Medicine Library. She graduated
from Vilnius University, the Speciality Librarianship, in 1982 and since
that time is employed at the Kaunas University of Medicine. She is active in librarianship in Lithuania as President of Lithuanian Association of Academic Libraries (LABA) and Member of the National Board for Libraries at the Ministry of Culture; in the Baltic and Nordic countries as Board member of Baltic Association for Medical Libraries (BAML), and main partner both in the Nordic-Baltic “Transfer of Knowledge Programme” and the Norwegian-Lithuanian cooperation project; in Europe as a EAHIL Board member. Elisabeth
Husem is head librarian at the University Library of
Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry. She is chair of SMH, the Norwegian Library
Association. Section for Medicine and Health, and is member of the
Nordic Association of Medicine and Health Information. Both these
organisations have a close cooperation with the Baltic countries and
with St. Petersberg.Elisabeth Husem was president of the European
Association of Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) in the period
1994-98, and served as EAHIL’s representative to the Medical Library
Association (MLA) 1999-2000. The Transfer of Knowledge Project : Evaluation of mutual benefits |
| 1330 | Ingegerd
Rabow has
been head of the e-Resources Department at the Lund University Libraries
Head Office since its start in May 2001. Before that she worked for two
years at the Karolinska Institute Library in Stockholm as project
manager of a nationally funded investigation of electronic publishing in
the fields of medicine and nursing. She has many years of experience as
an information specialist in these subjects at the universities of Umeå
and Lund and is currently member of the IFLA Health and Biosciences
Libraries Section Standing Committee. She is a strong advocate of new
publishing models and has recently become manager of the nationally
funded Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific Communication, http://www.sciecom.org/
New roles for Libraries in Scientific Communication - Local Initiatives |
| 1400 | Jan
Velterop, Publisher
of the BioMed Central Group, a group of companies within the Current
Science Group. He
has a wealth of experience within the scientific journals publishing
business. Throughout the '90s, he was the Managing Director of Academic
Press Limited, where he was responsible for taking forward the highly successful
and innovative IDEAL project which was one of the first e-journal
initiatives. IDEAL was the model for ScienceDirect and subsumed in it
with the
acquisition of Academic Press by Elsevier.
He has also held high profile positions at Macmillan Publishers where he was the Publishing Director of Nature Publishing Group and President of Nature Inc, and at the Dutch Media Group, Wegener. Following his postgraduate study in marine geology, he started his publishing career at Elsevier in Amsterdam as Acquisitions Editor. In addition to the above he has worked as a consultant within the scientific publishing and information industries. Having worked so close to the core of science publishing, he has come to the insight that science needs maximizing the visibility and impact of the results of research and that the most effective way of achieving that is to ensure free and unimpeded access to those results. BioMed Central, where he now is the publisher, is, so far, one of the very few companies who set out to prove the economic viability of an online open access publishing model without in any way compromising the quality of its publications while dramatically increasing their accessibility and visibility. |
| Saturday 28.06. | |
| 0900 |
Peter
Lindgren,
The National Institute for Working Life Library
(Sweden) |
| 0930 | Ann
Kunish has
her education in music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
Norwegian Academy of Music. She
began her career as a professional orchestral musician, and has
worked as a district musician in Northern Norway as well as on
contract with the Norwegian Opera, Oslo Philharmonic and in the
Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, where she worked as co-principal horn
from 1992-1998. She assumed
the position of head of the Music Department of the Oslo Public Library
in 1999.
Greta Bruu Olsen began as an assistant in the main branch of the Oslo Public Library from 1966 to 1969. She earned her degree in Library Science in Norway's College of Librarianship in 1973 after which she spent two years in the University Library system in Oslo. From 1974 to 1981 she worked in the School Department and as head of the Stovner branch of the Oslo Public Library. From 1981 to 1996 she was head of the newly-started Furuset branch, where she was responsible for planning and development. She has been head of the Reference Department of the main branch since 1996, and is one of the librarians responsible for the system's digital reference services. Combining digital reference with real life in the library |
| 1000 | Peter
Morgan
is a graduate of Leeds University and Sheffield
University. After an early
post in Manchester he has spent most of his career working at Cambridge
University. In the UK
he has held office in the University Medical School Librarians Group,
the Library Association's Health Libraries Group, and the National
Health Service Regional Librarians Group.
He is currently a UK representative on the EAHIL Council.
He has also worked for the British Council in Pakistan and Kuwait
and has published various contributions to the professional literature.
His professional interests include legal and ethical aspects of
medical librarianship, and the history of medicine. Peter is Medical Librarian at Cambridge University, and is currently seconded to Cambridge University Library as Project Director to develop a digital institutional repository for the University. PDAs: Information at your fingertips, or a handful of trouble? |
| 1130 | Stuart
Nelson studied
Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley during the
1960s. He obtained his MD
degree from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center,
in Brooklyn, New York. He interned at the Philadelphia General Hospital,
and did his residency in Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital in New York
City. Prior to assuming his present position at the National Library of
Medicine, he practiced and taught General Internal Medicine at the
Medical College of Georgia and at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. He is a Fellow
of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Nelson's research in medical informatics began in the early 1980s with work on the RECONSIDER system, designed to generate a set of possible diagnoses based on patient findings. Subsequently, his interests turned to the problems of organizing and retrieving information. He has participated in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project of the National Library of Medicine since the late 1980s, and has written a number of papers on semantic issues in the UMLS, identification of information in free text, and automated procedures in indexing. In 1996, he came to the National Library of Medicine as Head of the Medical Subject Headings Section. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. |
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