Julie McGowan, PhD

Julie J. McGowan, PhD, is Associate Dean for Information Resources and Educational Technology at Indiana University School of Medicine. She holds academic appointments as Professor of Knowledge Informatics and Professor of Pediatrics and is an Affiliated Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute. She received an MLS from the University of Maryland and an MA (Medical Iconography) and a PhD (Medical Education) from the University of South Carolina. Dr. McGowan's primary interest is application of information technology in support of clinical decision-making and medical education. Formerly the Associate Dean for Health Sciences Informatics and Library Resources at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, she led development of VTMEDNET, a comprehensive statewide health information network that provided secure access to patient information, library and public health resources, as well as distributed learning. She is involved in similar citywide projects in Indianapolis through the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. McGowan's interest in informatics education at the undergraduate medical school level led to the development of an innovative four-year Vertical Curriculum in Information Literacy and Applied Medical Informatics at the University of Vermont and the re-engineering of a required fourth year clerkship in Medical Informatics at Indiana University. She is a founding faculty member of the IU School of Informatics, the first in the country, and a member of the participating faculty of the Regenstrief Institute Medical Informatics Fellowship program. Dr. McGowan worked to establish the Group on Information Resources for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), was a member of its first elected Steering Committee and served as Chair for 2002ñ2003. She is a member of AMIA's Public Policy Committee, Meetings Committee, and Finance Committee and just completed a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association [1999ñ2002]. Dr. McGowan also is a member of the Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine [1999ñ2003] and the Health Research Dissemination and Implementation Study Section/Special Emphasis Panel of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [1998ñ2003]. She has now been elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics.