Thank you to everyone for sending their feedback about the four program proposals for MLA 2001. There was expressed interest in all of the programs and no clear consensus. After discussing the program proposals with other section planners and with a little compromising, I was able to get sponsorship for all four programs.

Here are the four programs the Public Health/Health Administration section will be sponsoring for MLA 2001:

I. Core Competencies for Librarians in Informatics- Intensive Environments

Medical Informatics (lead sponsor), Public Health/Health Administration (co-sponsor), Leadership and Management, Medical Library Education

II. Geographic Information Systems (GIS): An Information Odyssey

CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF SUBMISSIONS

III. Medicine for International Travel: State of the Art, 2001

Public Health/Health Administration (lead sponsor), Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Transgendered SIG, Federal Libraries, International Cooperation, Consumer & Patient Health Information, Pharmacy & Drug Information, Rehabilitation Hospital SIG

ABSTRACT:
Participants in this lecture will learn about the state of the art in training programs for Travel Medicine, global networks for disease survelliance, as well as standards of care for pretravel advice and post travel consultations for ill patients. Highlights of recommendations for immunizations, travelers diarrhea, malaria and other disease and disability prevention will be reviewed. Advice for vulnerable travelers will be discussed. “How people really die when traveling” will be outlined. Detailed resources from the world wide web and the medical literature will be provided.

BIOGRAPHY:
Patricia F. Walker, MD, DTM&H, is the Medical Director of the Center for International Health at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has been practicing since 1988. She trained at Mayo Medical School and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. She was awarded a Bush Medical Leadership Fellowship from 1996-1998, and completed her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1997. She has worked since 1979 in refugee camp settings in Southeast Asia, where she grew up, and has done 20 years of international consulting in refugee and immigrant health care issues. She has published and lectured extensively on cross cultural health care, tropical medicine, and medicine for international travel. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including “Minnesota Woman Physican of the Year,” “40 Top Physicians under 40,” “Community Service Awards” from the Minnesota Hospital Association and the Minnesota Medical Association, a “Minority Affairs Award” from the Minnesota Medical Association, and the “Twin Cities International Citizens Award” from the Mayors of Minneapolis and St Paul in 1997.

Selective Travel Medicine Bibliography

IV. “To Boldly Go Where No Information Has Gone Before”-Delivering Health And Information To Rural Communities Using Telemedicine

International Cooperation (lead sponsor), Public Health/Health Administration (co-sponsor)

Hope to see you all there.
Helen Look
Chair of Public Health/Health Administration Section