Connie Schardt, MLS, AHIP
Associate Director for Public Services
Duke University Medical Center Library

Connie is the Associate Director for Public Services at Duke University Medical Center. She is Co-Director of Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine, which is a 4 day workshop for clinicians and health professionals. Connie also co-teaches a distance education course on EBM for Medical Librarians. And for the last 8 years has participated as a librarian faculty at the McMaster EBCP annual workshop.

Karen Odato, MSN, MSLIS
Research and Education Librarian
Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries

Karen is a Research and Education Librarian at Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries. She is a course director and librarian faculty for the 3-day Dartmouth Summer Institute in Evidence-Based Psychiatry and Mental Health. For the last 3 years, she participated as a librarian faculty at McMaster EBCP annual week-long workshop. She attended Duke University's Teaching and Leading EBM workshop in 2005. Karen is a co-developer with Jan Glover of the EBM Page Generator and an administrator with Connie Schardt of the EBM Librarian Wiki. She has been teaching EBM concepts and supporting EBM practice at Dartmouth since 1998.

Pamela Bagley, PhD, MSLIS
Research and Education Librarian
Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries

Pamela is a Research and Education Librarian at Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries. She regularly teaches evidence based practice principles to medical students and clinicians. In 2006, she attended the three-day Workshop on Evidence Based Practice at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Practice. Pamela has participated on the Planning Committee and as a faculty librarian in the annual three-day Dartmouth Summer Institute in Evidence-Based Psychiatry and Mental Health since it began in 2006. Pamela's background as a research scientist gives her extensive experience in evaluating and appraising research studies.

Janene Batten, MLS, AHIP
Reference Librarian
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University

Janene Batten is the Reference Librarian to the Yale School of Nursing. Janene has extensive experience teaching evidence-based research principles to nursing students through course-integrated instruction. She has also worked closely with nursing staff in the hospital setting training them to do research for their clinical setting. She currently works with nursing faculty, graduate and PhD students, assisting them with all aspects of their research. Janene has participated in the 2007 Teaching and Leading EBM: A Workshop for Teachers and Champions of Evidence-Based Medicine at Duke University.

Heather Blunt, MSLIS
Research and Education Librarian
Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries

Heather is a Research and Education Librarian at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School, where she regularly teaches EBM principles and practices to students and clinicians. She has received training at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Practice. Since 2006, Heather has participated as librarian faculty in the annual 3-day Dartmouth Summer Institute in Evidence-Based Psychiatry and Mental Health. She co-taught a workshop for psychiatrists on creating a participatory evidence-based journal club at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.

Jan Glover, MLS, AHIP
Education Services Librarian
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University

Jan is the Education Services and Reference Librarian at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine. She has been teaching evidence-based practice principles and techniques to Medical Center students and faculty through course-integrated instruction, workshops, one-on-one sessions or to anyone who will listen. Jan attended the Duke University Medical Center Teaching and Leading EBM workshop and co-developed the EBM Page Generator with Karen Odato. Jan participated in the 2006 and 2007 Dartmouth Summer Institute in Evidence-Based Psychiatry and Mental Health as librarian faculty.

Jeff Mason, MLIS
Client Services Librarian
Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, Canada

Jeff is a hospital-based librarian providing evidence-based services and instruction to staff and students in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. For the last two years he has participated as a librarian faculty at McMaster University's week long EBCP workshop. He has recently brought library services to the bedside by rounding with residents on a new internal medicine teaching unit. Working in a hospital setting allows him to work closely with physicians, residents, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, and administrators to support evidence-based health care and provide quality patient care.

Angela Myatt, M.Sc.
Curriculum Liaison Librarian
Briscoe Library
University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio

Angela is Curriculum Liaison Librarian at the Briscoe Library, the University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). At the University of Cincinnati, Angela was a member of the working group charged with integrating EBM into the medical school curriculum. She has extensive experience teaching evidence based principles and practice to faculty, residents and students in many different settings. She has attended the McMaster EBCP Workshop as librarian faculty since 2005. She co-teaches a distance education course, with Connie Schardt, on EBM for Medical Librarians through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science (SILS). She also has been an instructor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) workshop Practicing Evidence Based Pediatrics for over 4 years. She has been an advocate of EBM since her days as a Clinical Medical Librarian.