Welch Library:: Catherine K. Craven, MLS, MA

Catherine K. Craven, MLS, MA
Clinical Informationist

Clinical Informationist Services
Welch Medical Library
410-502-7574
E-mail: ckcraven@jhmi.edu

Whom I serve

If you're in the following departments/areas, don't hesitate. Please contact me. I am your official Welch Library informationist:

Emergency Medicine
Hematology
Informatics (Div. of Health Sciences Informatics; others)
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Radiology (incl. Pediatric Radiology)
Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
School of Medicine (Administration; Medical Education Faculty/Staff; Medical Students)
Urology

What I can do for you

As your Welch clinical informationist, it's my job to help you do yours. I want to ensure that you maximize your ability to access and effectively use state-of-the-art information resources and technology when you need it, wherever you are - in your office or home office, in your classrooms and clinics, on-the-go and at the point of care.

As a professional librarian and National Library of Medicine-trained medical informatics researcher*, I can be your information expert.

As we get to know each other, we'll discover how I can best help you. For now, however, here is a sample of some of the services I can provide:

Indepth literature searching for and collaboration on research projects, incl. systematic reviews;
Researching clinical/point-of-care questions;
Conducting small- and large-group resource and searching-skills sessions - general and topic-specific -- for new and current faculty, staff, students, residents and fellows;
Providing individual instruction consultations -- I'll come to you, and no question is too big or too small;
A-Z information-use and workflow assessment and knowledge-management solution planning - from how to use RefWorks, RefMan and Endnote to how to harness and leverage implicit organizational memory and expertise;
Creating a Digital Portal, supported by Welch, tailored for your group's uses and needs.

Getting to know you

To expedite getting to know your needs and jump-start service to you, don't be surprised if I ask to

A) Set up an appointment to meet with you;

B) Set up regular office hours in your department;

C) Attend -- and eventually present at -- faculty and staff meetings and departmental orientations and functions;
D) Participate in your Journal Club;
E) Sit in on Grand Rounds;
F) Round with you in your clinic.

In fact, beat me to the punch. Go ahead, invite me!

* Additional details about my training, experience and useful skills: database management systems coursework and project experience; a year of graduate statistics coursework; small grant-writing experience and NSF and NIH grant editing experience -- something I can do for projects on which I am a collaborator; master’s degree in journalism; leadership positions in state- and national-level organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association.