Speakers

Dr Edoardo Aromataris B.Sc.(Hons), PhD is Director of the Synthesis Science Unit in the Joanna Briggs Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Adelaide. He is a bioscientist whose wish to see his research efforts have a direct impact on patient wellbeing led him from the laboratory bench to the field of evidence-based health care. Dr Aromataris frequently lectures on methods of evidence synthesis both in Australia and abroad. He was appointed as Editor of the Joanna Briggs Institute’s Library of Systematic Reviews in 2011.

Julie Williams has been the Academic Services Librarian in the Science, Engineering and Medicine Team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Library since 2007. Prior to this she was a Librarian in the  Physical Sciences Library at UNSW since 1999.

Ruth Mitchell BA, Grad Dip Lib Sci, MA (Inf) was a medical librarian for nine years, and has been working since 2000 as one of two Trials Search Co-ordinators for the Cochrane Renal Group, based in the Centre for Kidney Research at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Her main focus for the Renal Group has been the development of search strategies for both intervention and diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews. She has also undertaken a project looking at the accuracy of search filters in MEDLINE and EMBASE for retrieving diagnostic test accuracy studies in kidney disease, worked on the development of a register of diagnostic accuracy studies for the Cochrane Collaboration, conducted regular workshops on search strategy development, and contributed to the development of the searching standards within the Collaboration’s Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR).

Catherine King BA, GDip (IM - Lib), MAppSci (LIM), GCertEBP (Med), AALIA is a medical librarian, with postgraduate qualifications in both Library and Information Management and Evidence-Based Practice (Med). She has previous experience as the manager of both district and teaching hospital clinical libraries. Joining the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in 2001, Catherine provides librarianship and information management services to support the evidence-based policy, teaching and research activities of the Centre, including ongoing literature searching for The Australian Immunisation Handbook and national working parties. Catherine is a co-author for several published systematic reviews in infectious diseases and vaccination. Catherine is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, examining the types of information required to underpin vaccination policy for the prevention of seasonal influenza.

Debbie Booth has worked at the University of Newcastle since 1994 in a range of positions within the Library. Since 2009 she has been the Faculty Librarian for Health assisting Faculty staff and students with their teaching and learning and research needs.

Sarah Hayman has worked in special, research and educational libraries for more than 30 years, as a librarian, indexer, manager and researcher. She has a strong interest in online information management and for many years was the Manager of Information Services at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. In this role Sarah managed the VOCED international research database and oversaw its transition to a web-based platform and subsequent endorsement by UNESCO as a leading international research database for vocational education. This work gave Sarah a lasting interest in online bibliographic databases and their construction, together with a passion for exploring online search mechanisms and associated quality issues. At NCVER, she also worked on several systematic reviews of research, the first undertaken in Australia into vocational education research. Sarah has also been a manager of online resources for edna (the online Australian education network) where she worked on a range of innovation projects in the areas of searching and using social networking to harvest online resources. Sarah had a brief stint as manager of the Repatriation General Hospital library and is now working for the CareSearch palliative care knowledge network, where she feels many of the various strands of her career to date have come together. At CareSearch she is a Research Fellow (Evidence), responsible for development of search filters and the Finding Evidence section of the online service.