EBM Librarians' Working Group NY-NJ Chapter MLA 5th Annual Informal Session Medical Library Association

Dolphin Hotel, Orlando FL,
Room Europe 2,
Monday May 28^th
3:00 - 4:00 pm

Greetings & Announcements - Patricia E. Gallagher, The New York Academy of Medicine

Speakers:

• Elizabeth Warner [Thomas Jefferson University, Scott Memorial Library] - Bureau of Health Professions-funded training program http://www.usc.edu/hsc/ebnet/



• Carol Lefebvre [Cochrane Collaboration] - Update on Cochrane effort to identify RCTs



• Carolyn Reid [Weill Cornell Medical College] - Joint effort with the College Department of Public Health to run a four session EBM course for 2^nd year, and then 1^st year medical students.



• Mary Doherty (SUNY Downstate Medical Center) - Incorporation of EBM into the medical school curriculum, and the instruction of medical residents.



• James Comes (University of Massachusetts Medical Center)



• Gail Hendler [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center] - Pilot project on evidence-based nursing practice.



• Karen Crowell[UNC-Chapel Hill] - New website aimed at those teaching or learning about EBM, and developed by NC area AHEC and academic health sciences librarians.



• Roberta Bronson-Fitzpatrick [NYU Medical Center] - EBM activities at NYU