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Clinical Librarian - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Walter Reed NM Medical Center - Darnall Medical Library
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Michele Mason-Coles joined Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's (WRNMMC) Darnall Medical Library in 2015 as the clinical librarian dedicated to the Department of Pediatrics and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Ms. Mason-Coles is an alumni of the National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program, and received her MLS from of St. John's University (New York). She draws on her 10 years of experience as a patient representative and cancer information specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
As a clinical librarian at WRNMMC, Ms. Mason-Coles participates in clinically relevant forums, such as journal club, morning report, department specific lectures, and supports the practice of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Ms. Mason-Coles provides instruction on EBM practices and resources, searching the medical literature, and citation management, to residents, fellows, nurses and all of WRNMMC – she also has a special interest in patient health education. In 2019, the Library of Congress FEDLINK named Ms. Mason-Coles Federal Librarian of the Year for FY 2018.