National Library of Medicine Site Visit
October 22, 2008
Administrator Biographies
Associate Director, WWAMI Area Health Education Center
Clinical Associate Professor (Family Medicine, Health Services)
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Peter House serves as associate director of the WWAMI Area Health Education Center where he works to support the University of Washington School of Medicine's regional mission to improve the distribution of health professionals. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Washington Rural Health Association.
Mr. House has wide experience in strategic planning, program evaluation, meeting facilitation, community assessments, and community development. He teaches community development courses in the School of Public Health and a course in rural health in the School of Medicine.
Peter House received his Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Michigan.
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics
Professor (Health Services, Epidemiology, Biomedical & Health Informatics, Medical Education & Informatics)
University of Washington, Seattle
Mark Oberle established the Center for Public Health Informatics and the School of Public Health's Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, which promotes public health training and collaborates with public health agencies, tribes and community groups in the Northwest. His current projects include the Northwest Center for Public Health Preparedness, which is investigating the structure, capabilities and performance of public health systems for preparedness and emergency communications response; the Robert Wood Johnson/National Library of Medicine Collaborative Training Initiative in Public Health Informatics, which proposes the development of a training track for leaders and innovators in public health informatics; and the Public Health Training Center, collaborating with state health departments and educational institutions to create a Public Health Workforce Training Center serving the Northwest.
Dr. Oberle previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. and other countries, focusing on infectious diseases, public health informatics, reproductive health, and contraceptive safety and efficacy. He also directed state infectious disease control programs in two states, and has published extensively on medicine, public health, and zoology.
Dr. Oberle received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Dean of University Libraries
University of Washington, Seattle
Betsy Wilson has served since 2001 as the UW’s Dean of University Libraries. The University Libraries, which ranks among the largest academic libraries in the U.S. and leads in the implementation of online systems and use of electronic information, received the 2004 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.
Prior to arriving at the UW, Betsy Wilson was Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Board, and has served as a member of the American Library Association Council, as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, as member and chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees, and as a member of the Association of Research Libraries Board and the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee. She served as chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance and member of the Executive Committee of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, and is co-founder of the Digital Futures Alliance and the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy. She presents and publishes widely on teaching and learning in libraries, assessment and evaluation, digital library services, and educational and cross-sector collaborations, and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including (with her UWired colleagues) the inaugural EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning.
Betsy Wilson holds an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
