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Speakers

Keynote Speakers
	Neil Rambo, MLIS Director, NYU Health Sciences Libraries Neil Rambo is Director of Health Sciences Libraries and Knowledge Informatics at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Neil assumed this role one year ago and is charged, in part, with ensuring university-wide collaboration that will enhance teaching and research support services across the biosciences and health sciences for both the medical center and the main university campus. He has extensive experience in health sciences information needs and uses. Neil received degrees in cell and molecular biology and library and information science, both from the University of Washington. After serving for five years in a post-internship career at The Texas Medical Center Library, Neil returned to the Pacific Northwest. He served at the University of Washington in a variety of academic and managerial roles in libraries and informatics for nearly two decades. In 2007-08, he was a visiting program officer at the Association of Research Libraries, investigating emerging roles for libraries and librarians in support of computationally- and data-intensive, networked science.
	Layne Johnson, PhD Translational Science Information Specialist, University of Minnesota Layne Johnson has a BA in Biology, an MS in Bacteriology and a PhD in Microbiology. His post-Doctoral research focused on microbial enzymology and genetics. He began building his career in the biotechnology and transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry, where he performed discovery research for treating infectious, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Dr. Johnson joined the University of Minnesota in 2009 and has provided strategic support to programs in Clinical and Translational Science, E-Science, Health Informatics, Research Networking, the semantic web, and Community Engagement and Rural Health. He is a core faculty member in Health Informatics and provides leadership on a number of U of M enterprise-level information programs in architecture, e-science and health informatics.
Panelists
	Jen Ferguson, MS MLIS Data Services Librarian, Northeastern University After years spent teaching and doing research in molecular biology, Jen Ferguson is enjoying her second career as a librarian. She holds an MS in biology from Boston College and an MLIS from Syracuse University. Jen recently joined Northeastern University as their Data Services Librarian. In this role, she leads the library's data support and outreach activities to campus constituencies, and also guides the work of the library's team of science, engineering, and math liaisons. Previously, Jen was Research & Instruction Liaison at Brandeis University.
	Neville Prendergast, BGSc DipEd MLS Director, Rudolph Matas Medical Library, Tulane University Neville Prendergast was appointed Director of the Matas Library of the Health Sciences at Tulane University in January 2009, having successfully completed the 2007-8 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. He currently serves on the Data Curation Task Force at TU Libraries, and is also part of the TU Libraries E-Science team participating in an ARL sponsored E-Science Institute. These efforts are in helping to guide TU Libraries on ‘best practices’ for implementing E-Science/E-Research and Institutional Repository resources.

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C
with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

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