Wayne Peay, FACMI

Wayne Peay received his bachelorís in history from the University of Utah and masterís of library science from Columbia, while serving as Assistant Director of the Data Processing Department of the Medical Library Center of New York. He returned to the University of Utah, was appointed to a series of positions of increasing responsibility at the Eccles Health Sciences Library, and has been the library director there since 1984. Since 2001 he has also been the Director of the Midcontinental Regional Medical Library of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. As noted in his nomination to the College, Wayne Peay has been a prime mover in virtually every initiative to use computers and networking technology to support education and improve information services in the state of Utahóconceiving the projects, obtaining the grant funds, overseeing implementation, and managing the inevitable stresses among participating organizations with very different missions and priorities. He has effectively deployed successive generations of new technologies, almost always on the leading edge of adoption and with a number of notable successes that predated broad Internet access and the development of the Internet. These efforts have improved access to high-quality health information in academic centers, community hospitals, public libraries, and other tribal and local organizations serving diverse populations. He has implemented the technical and interorganizational connections that are essential to delivering the promise of medical informatics. These efforts have been recognized by his election as a fellow of the Medical Library Association, inclusion on the National Honor Roll of the American Library Association, and now by election to the American College of Medical Informatics.