Kaitlyn Van Kampen

Kathleen A. Zar Clinical Library Resident
University of Chicago John Crerar Library

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Kaitlyn Van Kampen, MLIS, is the Kathleen A. Zar Clinical Library Resident at the University of Chicago John Crerar Library. As a clinical librarian, she works closely with clinical staff at UChicago Medicine by attending rounds and providing point-of-need services and information support, assisting them with clinical questions that arise. She works with the broader University of Chicago health sciences community providing research support, collaborating with faculty and students at Pritzker School of Medicine, and offering instruction on using biomedical databases and tools, and developing research strategies for retrieving high-quality evidence. Additionally, Kaitlyn works on community outreach programs, including the NNLM All of Us Community Engagement Network, partnering with the Chicago Public Library.

This past Spring 2020, Kaitlyn worked with clinicians and medical students to create the UChicago Educational Support Team for COVID-19, that produced literature summaries and answered clinical questions for frontline clinicians working in the COVID-19 cohort units. This service was revised for future students and expanded into a clerkship, ASAP (Ask-Search-Appraise-Perform) in Evidence-Based Practice, which will include additional didactic sessions on critical appraisal provided by three hospitalists who will also serve as mentors.

Kaitlyn has a B.A. in Psychology with a pre-medical focus from The Ohio State University, and a Master of Library and Information Science, with a Graduate Certificate in Information Management: Specializing in Health Informatics and Data Analytics, from Wayne State University. She is a member of the Medical Library Association and the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association.