Associate Professor/Regional Services Coordinator
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Austin, Texas
Catherine Pepper, MLIS, MPH, holds the rank of tenured Associate Professor and serves as Regional Services Coordinator for the Medical Sciences Library at Texas A&M University. Based in Austin, TX, as medical librarian for the Round Rock campus of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, she also teaches evidence-based medicine courses for A&M medical students. Cathy graduated from the CDC’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) in 2008 and was recognized for outstanding service to the Informatics Office at the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases. She earned her master's degree in library and information science at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of Library and Information Sciences and her master's of public health in health informatics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s School of Public Health. Cathy has been a member of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and its South Central Chapter (SCC) since 1998, and has chaired and served on several SCC committees, including Research and Continuing Education, and has served as Chapter Secretary. She chaired the Local Assistance Committee on the MLA 2015 National Program Committee and is Immediate Past Chair of the MLA Research Section. She is also a member of the MLA Public Health/Health Administration and Informatics Sections. Cathy’s recent research has focused on an evaluation of how evidence-based practice is taught in medical schools and implications for competency-based medical education and the roles of instruction librarians in the health sciences curricula.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT