Medical LIbrarian
VA Portland Health Care System
Sola Whitehead, MLIS, is the Medical Librarian at the VA Portland Health Care System in Portland, OR. In her former life, Sola was an IRB analyst and human subjects protections policy writer for 16 years in the Research Administration Office at the VA hospital in Portland. After receiving her MLIS from the University of Washington, she moved down three floors to take the position of VA Medical Librarian. Since 2014, she and a library technician have focused on providing as many library services as possible, from literature searches and PubMed searching classes for staff, to offering internet access and a wide-ranging patient health book collection for patients and family members. Sola’s goal is to make the library indispensable to the patients and staff at her facility. In her “free” time, Sola knits, noodles around on the ukulele, and is a parent to 14-year-old twin boys.
Monday, May 24, 2021
11:30 AM – 11:55 AM CT