MLA ’10 Reflect & Connect
Posted on June 2, 2010 by kcarlson | No Comments
By Marsha Kmec, Director of Library Services, Olive View/UCLA Medical Center
McGovern Award Lecturer: Daniel H. Pink
Aside from a truly great Welcome Reception in the exhibit area, we were so fortunate to have Daniel Pink as our McGovern Award Lecturer. One truly doesn’t “get” the differentiation between the right and left brain until one has listened to Daniel Pink and his “Whole New Mind” lecture. The deliverance and sense of humor injected into his lecture left us all leaving with an entirely new knowledge base and laughs as well.
CE Evidence-based Public Health: Finding and Appraising Relevant Resources
The Informationist in Practice, a four hour symposium made up of diverse individuals from various universities across the country, shared their expertise on Public Health, being involved in a clinical setting, and bioinformatics. They illuminated upon their experience, and credentials needed to get into that specific position, and it was quite an excellent opportunity to learn of new ideas and colleagues in other positions quite different than what we’re accustomed to.
Some of the “new” buzz words or perhaps not new but revamped mentioned repeatedly was wearing the hat of the information technologist or relating to the IT department (how to); Science Translational Medicine—translational medicine being “out there” continually; The Electronic Health Record (Research Panel was terrific); Vital Pathways (continuation of); Outreach to minority populations (grants available, populations to target, etc.,)
Posted 6/2/10
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