About the Library: Sarah Clarke, MSLS, AHIP

  Sarah Clarke, MSLS, AHIP

  Clinical Librarian

(301) 319-2484

sarah.c.clarke.civ@health.mil

Sarah Clarke joined the Darnall Medical Library (DML) team in September 2019. As a Clinical Librarian, she serves as the liaison to the Internal Medicine Department. She attends inpatient teaching rounds, conducting real-time searches of the evidence for clinicians and trainees. Additionally, she assists patrons with reference questions and literature searches, while also helping maintain resources on the library website and the hospital's mobile app, MilMed. Ms. Clarke is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine and is one of the co-directors of the IM Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum. She also provides guidance and offers instruction on database use, searching the medical literature, and citation management to clinicians, trainees, and all WRNMMC staff upon request. She curates the library's Medical Humanism Collection, serves on the Hospital Ethics Committee, is an elected member and secretary of the 2022-2024 DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) User Council. 

• 2021-2022 Chair of the Federal Libraries Caucus of the Medical Library Association. 
• Recipient of the Medical Library Association's 2020 Rittenhouse Award for her research report, "Data Sharing Barriers During Infectious Disease Outbreaks."
• Recipient of a Civilian Achievement Award for her service and response to COVID-19, January-June 2020. 

Sarah Clarke came to WRNMMC in 2019, after completing a fellowship at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. From 2011-2018, she was employed at Fort Detrick, working for the Office of Research Protections Office at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and later at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Library.

• Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLS) from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2017)
• Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland University College (2014)
• Associate Fellowship Program for Librarians at the National Library of Medicine (2018-2019)
• Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) Senior Member; AHIP is a peer-reviewed, accomplishment/portfolio-based certification and career development program for health information professionals 

She has completed additional training focused on Evidence-Based Medicine and Systematic Reviews with the following courses:

• Evidence-Based Practice for Health Sciences Librarians (2023). Charleston, SC. 
• CE100 Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams (2022). New Orleans, LA. 

Please feel free to contact me with your clinical questions or patient care topics, questions about evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal, or if you need assistance conducting a literature search. I can help conduct literature searches across different databases and different disciplines, and help you easily manage your references for projects.

I provide training for literature searching, database use, management citation, mobile apps, and other library topics in both individual and group settings. I'm happy to meet in a variety of formats - phone, video call, or via email. I look forward to working with you!

Clarke, S., Holman, A., Mason-Coles, M. Librarian-Curated Mobile App for Military Hospital with Graduate Education Programs. Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association Dual Annual Meeting; Detroit, MI. May 2023.

Mason-Coles, M., Holman, A., and Clarke, S. A Hospital Effectively Meeting Clinicians' Information Needs: A Virtual Usability Study. Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association Dual Annual Meeting; Detroit, MI. May 2023.

Kerling, D. A., Clarke, S. C., DeLuca, J. P., Evans, M. O., Kress, A. T., Nadeau, R. J., & Selig, D. J. (2023). Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Loop Diuretics on Antibiotic Pharmacokinetics. Pharmaceutics, 15(5), 1411. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15051411

Yokoi H, McGovern M, Fetherston T, Clarke SC, Ravindra VM, Hooten KG, Ikeda DS. A history of neurosurgical capabilities in the United States Pacific Command: from World War II to present. Neurosurg Focus. 2022 Sep;53(3):E13. doi: 10.3171/2022.6.FOCUS22247

Mason-Coles, M., Shohfi, E., & Clarke, S. Development of a Hospital-based Clinical Librarian Evidence Based Medicine Training Program for New Librarians. Medical Library Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA. May 2022.

Clarke, S. C., Shohfi, E. E., & Han, S. (2022). Federal Library Utilization of LibGuides to Disseminate COVID-19 Information. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 17(1), 38–55. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30017

Clarke, S., Han, S., and Shohfi, E. Keeping Pace with COVID-19 - Federal Library LibGuides During the Pandemic. Military Libraries Training Workshop; Virtual. December 2021.

Clarke, S., Han, S., and Shohfi, E. Keeping Pace with COVID-19 - Federal Library LibGuides During the Pandemic. Medical Library Association Annual Meeting; Virtual. May 2021.

Haddow, A., Clarke, S. Inaccuracies in Google's Health-Based Knowledge Panels Perpetuate Widespread Misconceptions Involving Infectious Disease Transmission. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Apr 26. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0216. PMID: 33901005.

Federer, L., Clarke, S., & Zaringhalam, M. Developing the Librarian Workforce for Data Science and Open Science. OSF Preprints. 2020. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/uycax

Norton, C., and Clarke, S. Pairing Health Sciences Librarians with Research Data Management Training. Information Outlook: The Magazine of the Special Libraries Association, 23(6), 11-12. 2019.

Brody, S., Clarke, S., Llorens, A., Vetter, C., and Wilson, P. Women in Medical Librarianship: A Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Towson Conference for Academic Librarians; Towson, MD. 2019.

Clarke, S., Arnesen S., and Champ-Blackwell, S. Data Needs During Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Medical Library Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL. 2019.

Clarke, S., and Norton, C. Which Research Data Management Course is Right for Me? A Decision Tree to Pair Librarians with Training to Meet Professional Goals. Medical Library Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL. 2019. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Z6R4Q.

Clarke, S., and Norton, C. Which Research Data Management Course is Right for Me? A Decision Tree to Pair Librarians with Training to Meet Professional Goals. Special Libraries Association; Cleveland, OH. 2019. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Z6R4Q.

Clarke, S., Arnesen, S., and Champ-Blackwell, S. Data Sharing Barriers During Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Roles for Librarians. 44th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, CO. 2019.

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