Congratulations to Michele Mason-Coles,
Federal Librarian of the Year FY18!
Federal Librarian of the Year is awarded by FEDLINK / Library of Congress
Michele Mason-Coles came to Darnall Medical Library as a Clinical Librarian in 2015. She serves as the liaison to the Department of Pediatrics, including the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In this role, she participates in ward rounds, conducts real-time searches of the medical literature to inform patient care, participates in clinically relevant forums, including journal club, morning report.
Ms. Mason-Coles is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and provides guidance and offers instruction on evidence-based medicine/practice, database use, searching the medical literature, and citation management to clinicians and trainees; She also provides literature search and database instruction for nursing, and all WRNMMC staff upon request.
Ms. Mason-Coles worked to create the library's Patient Health Education Portal, serves as an instructor in the Leadership Academy.
Prior to her career at WRNMMC, Michele Mason-Coles served as the Reference Services Coordinator of the Headquarters and Chemical Library at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2013 - 2015. Prior to this, she completed the Associate Fellowship Program at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health from 2011-2013. The second year of this fellowship was spent as at Inova Fairfax Hospital piloting a sustainable clinical rounding program in Pediatrics, as well as piloting a health information service for the hospitalized elderly population.
Ms. Mason-Coles spent the first half of her career as a Patient Advocate at New York University Medical Center as well as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) NY, NY. She also served as a Cancer Information Specialist at MSKCC. She holds a Master of Library Science (MLS) from St. John’s University, Queens, NY., and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health Education - Hunter College, City University of New York, NY. She also holds a Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) from the Medical Library Association.
Feel free to contact me with your clinical questions, patient care topics, or literature search topics. We can meet for a 1:1 consultation or schedule a group session virtually (Teams, Google Meets), at your office location, the library, or other convenient WR meeting spaces. I am happy to provide instruction on searching the literature, database use, managing citations, your project and other library related topics.
I have a special interest in patient health education and can guide staff and patients in using the patient health education resources that are available including our homegrown Patient Health Education Portal!
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