Nancy Roderer, MLS

Nancy received a bachelorís degree in mathematics and science from the University of Dayton and a masterís degree in library science from the University of Maryland. She began a career of creating and evaluating informatics systems and services as a coauthor of an evaluation of NLMís prototype Hepatitis Knowledge Base system in the late 1970s. She was appointed as IAIMS System librarian at Columbia University, later served as Director of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale, and isnowDirector of the Welch Medical Library. She has been a prime mover in the establishment of the Division of Health Information Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where she is an associate professor and currently interim director, which was designed to include public health issues from its inception. Her work positioned the University to compete successfully for an NLM Informatics Training Grant and, most recently, for Robert Wood Johnson funding for a Public Health Informatics Track within this broader training program. Her election to the College recognizes sustained contributions to the field for more than 25 years.