2019 Annual Meeting Panel
Pete Cole has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, where he concentrated in biomedical informatics and worked as a research assistant in clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic. Mr. Cole is currently the Chief of Learning Resources at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System and Adjunct Faculty at the New York University Health Sciences Library, where he performs evidence based consults for NYU residents on inpatient medicine rotations. At VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, Pete is overseeing the changing of two libraries into Learning Resources Centers, where VA patients and clinicians alike can learn more about VA Care and patient health education through the leveraging of technologies for increased patient-provider interaction. He is also a preceptor for two VHA Health Informatics trainees.
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein has always been a hospital librarian at heart, whether she was running a hospital library, training hospital librarians to search the literature, or doing clinical outreach at an academic medical center. After working on the East Coast and all the way to Denver, and traveling for work in the Midwest and East, she has landed at Virtua Health, a community-based health care system in southern New Jersey. She is delightfully crazy busy managing her virtual library, having an ambitious rounding schedule, making InfoHouseCalls, and sitting on hospitalwide committees and councils. In tasteful self-promotion, Helen-Ann is so proud to say the Medical Librarian was a Magnet exemplar in Virtua’s Magnet designation and recognized as a Virtua Caring People SuperStar.
On the MLA front, she is excited about her upcoming year as a returning Chair of our chapter and honored to be a MLA Fellow.
Andy Hickner is a Health Sciences Librarian at the Interprofessional Health Sciences Library at Seton Hall University, where he serves as a librarian for the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. He earned a Master of Science, Information from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Rachel Pinotti (panel moderator) is the Director for Library Education & Research Services at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). In this role she serves as co-director of the longitudinal evidence-based medicine (EBM) curriculum, working with medical education administration and faculty to ensure that EBM is included in the curriculum in a robust and meaningful way. Rachel serves as course director for the Introduction to Systematic Reviews course and co-course director for the Lessons in Scientific Publishing course in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Rachel also oversees reference, consultation and instruction services for ISMMS and the hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System. She enjoys working with a diverse group of patrons including medical and graduate students, faculty, residents, fellows, and staff.
Rachel earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Emory University and her Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. She has been a member of the Medical Library Association, at both the national and chapter level, since 2012 and is a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP).