[Sighlth-l] SIG HLTH Newsletter - Happy Holidays!

Tue Dec 23 14:39:53 EST 2014

*ASIS&T SIG-HLTH DECEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER*

Happy holidays, SIG-HLTH Members! It was wonderful to meet during ASIS&T's
annual conference in Seattle last month, and we are excited for the coming
year's proposed activities.

*ANNOUNCEMENTS*

- Webinars for 2015, Survey

- Work with Local & Student Chapters

- Recap of SIG-HLTH meeting at ASIS&T Annual Conference

- New officer appointments

- Sign up for SIG-HLTH listserv

*MEMBER SPOTLIGHT*

- Deborah Charbonneau, Assistant Professor @ Wayne State University in
Detroit, Michigan

- Miraida Morales, MLIS, MA, PhD Student @ LIS Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey

*Q&A*

- Send in your answer to this month's question.
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*Announcements*

*WEBINARS FOR 2015 - PLEASE FILL OUT OUR SHORT SURVEY BELOW*
We are planning a few webinars for the coming year, starting from February,
2015. The themes we planned are as follows:

*1. Conversation between areas:* Communicate patient work with clinical
care.
*2. Methodology:* qualitative research and quantitative research methods in
health informatics.

We are looking for speakers and ideas on other topics of interest (we have
enough funds for at least three webinars). Please fill out the following
short survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGCVZQD) to share your ideas
and insights.

*JOIN US TO WORK WITH LOCAL CHAPTERS AND STUDENT CHAPTERS*

We need volunteers to initiation communication with local and student
chapters in our effort to enhance academic exchange and encourage future
collaborations. This could be a great opportunity for us to strengthen
personal connections with members of local ASIS&T organizations.

*We encourage volunteers to:*

- Contact the leadership of local chapters and student chapters

- Participate in and/or co-organize chapter activities (e.g. local
face-to-face discussion groups) with a health-related theme

- Send us any materials collected during these activities (e.g. minutes,
photos, video, etc.)

- Contact Si Sun at sisun at rutgers.edu with any questions

Our members in the New Jersey area are planning activities with the Rutgers
University Student Chanpter. Please join us in this mutual growth with
local ASIS&T organizations!

*RECAP OF SIG HLTH AT ASIS&T 2015*

We carried out a number of activities during ASIS&T 2015, including having
a member dinner at a local restaurant, collecting and donating over 100
pieces of toiletries to Roots - a shelter for homeless youth, get together
at SIG Rush, appointing officers and planning for the next year at SIG
Business Meeting, and distributing our SIG HLTH brochure. Please email us
to share your thoughts on these activities (contacts are available at the
end of this email).

*NEW OFFICER APPOINTMENTS*

We appointed new officers at ASIST SIG Business Meeting. Our current
officers are:

Si Sun, Chair

Emily Vardell, Chair-Elect and New Leader Awardee (2014-2015)

Deborah H. Charbonneau, Secretary

Miraida Morales, Communications

We look forward to an active new year together!

*SIGN UP FOR SIG HLTH LISTSERV*

We noticed a major problem with communication with our members is the lack
of automated sign-in for our listserv. We have added all members to our
listserv and you will be receiving our newsletters from now on. Please
email Si Sun at sisun at rutgers.edu if you would like to sign up with a
different email address.

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*Member Spotlight*

*Assistant Professor Deborah Charbonneau*
[image: Deborah"]

*Deborah Charbonneau *is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library
and Information Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She
currently teaches in the areas of Library Management, Health Informatics,
and Research Methods. Her articles have appeared in the journals Library &
Information Science Research, Journal of the Medical Library Association,
Health Information and Libraries Journal, and Journal of Women & Aging. Her
research interests include outreach, health literacy, health communication,
consumer health, data management, health informatics, research methods, and
scholarly communication. She is the recipient of the 2014 Donald A. B.
Lindberg Research Fellowship from the Medical Library Association.

Dr. Charbonneau is currently part of a research team recently awarded
funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for the
project “eHealth Activity among African American and White Cancer
Survivors.” The research team, led by Dr. Hayley Thompson at the Karmanos
Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine, received
$1.8 million to study eHealth activities among cancer survivors with the
goal of improving survivorship planning and care. The population-based
study of racially diverse cancer survivors will identify determinants of
eHealth activity in this group, provide deep insight into the role of
eHealth in survivors’ overall personal health information management, and
ultimately inform user-centered design of eHealth tools optimized for
survivors.

*Miraida Morales*

*MLIS, MA*
[image: Miraida]

*Miraida Morales *is a second-year Ph.D. student at the School of
Communication and Information, Rutgers University. Her research focuses on
health information behavior and technology, specifically on how people use
language to access health-related information. She applies Natural Language
Processing (NLP) methods to assess and evaluate health content. During the
summer sessions, Miraida teaches the hybrid (online & on-campus) version of ITI
220: Retrieving and Evaluating Electronic Information
<http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/component/cur,547/num,220/option,com_courses/sch,04/task,view/>,
a required course in our Information Technology & Informatics
<http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/information-technology-and-informatics-major/information-technology-and-informatics-major.html>
undergraduate
major.

In May 2012, Miraida received a MLIS from Rutgers with a certificate in
digital libraries.  As a student in the library program at Rutgers, she
worked on a variety of digital library projects including launching a digital
library of heraldry
<http://icp-5.icp.gobierno.pr/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=p-01000-00---off-0herldica--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-es-50---20-preferences---00-3-1-00-0--4--0--0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&a=p&p=about>
at
the National Library of Puerto Rico in 2011.  After obtaining the MLIS, she
was the taxonomist at 1stdibs <http://www.1stdibs.com/>, a curated online
marketplace of antiques, design, fashion and fine jewelry.

Prior to the MLIS, Miraida worked in trade book publishing for 9 years,
focusing mostly on international export sales to Latin American and the
Caribbean, as well as importing Spanish language books for the US market.

She also holds a M.A. in 19th & 20th French Studies from New York
University's Institute of French Studies <http://ifs.as.nyu.edu/page/ma>.

*Please contact us to be featured next!*

*(Contact information is available at the end of this email)*
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*Q&A*

The Q&A section is dedicated research-related question answering. If you
have any questions, please send it to us and we will post it on our social
media and the next issue of SIG/HLTH newsletter. If you would like to
answer a question or provide resources, please contact us and we will
update our social media and newsletter accordingly.

*Question from Si Sun at Rutgers University:*

When conducting interview studies, how do we balance between building
rapport and maintaining objectivity? Building rapport often means to show
interest and appreciation in the participants' contributions, which can be
important for participants to feel comfortable sharing their perspectives.
However, this risks encouraging participants to emphasize certain issues
and ignoring some others. How can we balance between these two aspects and
establish good relationship with participants while assuring the
objectivity of the data collected?

*Please send us your questions and help others with your ideas!*

*(Contact information is available at the end of this email)*
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*Contacts*

Si Sun, Chair

sisun at rutgers.edu

Emily Vardell, Chair-Elect/Secretary, New Leader Awardee (2014-2015)

evardell at email.unc.edu

Deborah H. Charbonneau, Secretary

dcharbon at wayne.edu

Miraida Morales, Communications

miraida.morales at rutgers.edu

Nancy K. Roderer, SIG HLTH Advisor

nrodere1 at jhmi.edu

Deborah E. Swain, SIG HLTH Advisor

dswain at nccu.edu

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