Please join us at the 2nd Annual Lecture on the Evidence Base, sponsored by StatRef, as we bring two exiting leaders in the medical library community in the exploration of Web 2.0 for Professional and Clinical Productivity. (Tuesday, May 20th 4:30 - 6:00 pm in Regency Ball Room A).

With 90 minutes, our speakers will be able to lead us on this exploration of emerging social technologies, also known as Web 2.0, looking at how they can potentially impact all phases of the medical library, including the organization and use of the evidence base. Web 2.0 applications have become embedded in all walks of life.

  • Health care consumers are using social tech to build community as well as share health tips and news;
  • Practitioners share clinical images and articles, and ask for opinions on drafts;
  • Faculty use blogs and wikis and Second Life in education;
  • Lab directors use wikis for collaboration and presentations;
  • And so much more!

Libraries must not be left out when our communities move into new information spaces. So come get comfortable as with three microphones, a projector and 90 minutes they take us on one of the A ticket rides of the conference.

David Rothman
Through his widely-read medical library blog, davidrothman.net, David Rothman keeps his readers up-to-date on the latest web tools and technologies relevant to health information needs and medical libraries. His blog has been ranked among the top English-language health care blogs in the world and has been mentioned in the Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, and Ophthalmology. In less than 2 years, davidrothman.net has had more than 100,000 unique visits and gained an RSS following of more than 1,800 subscribers.

Patricia F. Anderson
Patricia is currently the Emerging Technologies Librarian of the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries. For the previous decade, she was the Head of the University of Michigan Dentistry Library. During this time she was offered many exciting professional opportunities, including coauthoring the Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web, supporting the Let’s Face It web site, and serving as expert searcher for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries Throughout Life (the first NIH consensus conference to require systematic reviews of the speakers). Ms. Anderson currently specializes in the application of social, semantic and emerging technologies in support of the academic, research, clinical and outreach/service missions of the University of Michigan Health System.

- Mike Kronenfeld, Chair, Dental Section