Erica Lake, MLS, AHIP

Health Sciences Librarians Outreach Specialist, Region 6

Erica Lake (she/her) is the Medical and Academic Library Outreach Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine in Region 6. In this role, Erica engages with health sciences librarians, hospital librarians, tribal college librarians, and library information science programs in the region, and teaches national NNLM webinars and Moodle courses.

Classes I Teach

Event Title Summary
R3 and R6 Carpentries for LIS February 2024 This workshop is focused on Data Carpentries. The curriculum will include:
• Data organization in spreadsheets
• Data cleaning with OpenRefine
• Data visualization with R
Region 6: NNLM Day at MLA 2023 Meet the NNLM Region 6 during NNLM Day at MLA 2023!
Reproductive Health and the Reference Desk: How libraries can provide information in a post-Roe country This webinar will discuss reproductive health as an information access concern, introduce the Reproductive Justice framework, and offer ideas for how libraries can provide create environments that are supportive of sexual and reproductive health information.
The New Clinically Useful Journals List for PubMed Searching: Where to Find it and How to Use it This presentation will explore the newly updated Core Clinical Journals Filter for PubMed, and highlight the clinicians who might use it as well as potential uses in healthcare profession education.
Using Technology to Combat Fake News: The Impact of Misinformation on Chronic Condition Self-Management Behaviors In this presentation, the speakers will offer insight into making appropriate health information more accessible to patients, and therefore lessening the likelihood of misinformation related to the self-management of diabetes. The speakers will describe the implementation of interventions design to reinforce self-care practices and daily decision making among patients managing a chronic disease.
Why Comics Work for Risk Communication Meredith Li-Vollmer, PhD, risk communication specialist and cartoonist discusses how the health department in Seattle and King County, Washington has used comics to convey critical health information for emergency preparedness and response. One-hour webinar. Part of NNLM Virtual Disaster Preparedness Forum (September, 2023).

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