A special liaison or librarian-in-context program that augments your information resources, saves you and your staff time, and most importantly, enhances the quality of research and patient care. The informationist provides personalized, on-site information services for your team. For more information contact Susan Whitmore at 301-496-1157; or by email at susan_whitmore@nih.gov.

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Diane Cooper has a Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, and a BA degree in English from Kentucky Wesleyan College. She is certified by the Medical Library Association at the Distinguished Level. Diane has extensive experience in the corporate environment. She has worked for United HealthCare, Magellan Health Services,and Parexel Inc., a global bio/pharmaceutical services organization. She also has medical center experience, having worked in a Veterans Administration Medical Center and at the University of California, Davis medical library. In addition, she was librarian for the research laboratory of the National Institutes of Drug Abuse and Addiction, Addiction Research Center, at Lexington, Kentucky. She joined the NIH library July, 2003. As an Informationist, Diane works with Endocrinology services of the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institutes of Kidney and Digestive Diseases; Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch, Center for Developmental Biology and Perinatal Medicine in the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; and the Indian Health Service headquarters and clinics and health care providers across the US.	Diane Cooper 301.594.2449 cooperd@mail.nih.gov
Janet Heekin 301.594.6201 heekin@nih.gov	Janet Heekin joined the NIH Library in April 1998, and is currently employed as a Biomedical Librarian/Informationist. She received a Masters of Library Science from Indiana University in August, 1989, holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Cincinnati; and fieldwork in mental health and substance abuse counseling. Prior to coming to the NIH Library, she held positions as a clinical librarian at the University of Pittsburgh, and medical library intern at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Heekin currently works with research administrators at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), where she provides expert search services in support of evidence-based health practice.
Nancy Terry began working in the NIH Library in 1995 as a Biomedical Librarian and joined the Informationist program in 2005. In addition to a Masters Degree in Library Science (MLS), Ms. Terry received a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland. Before coming to the NIH Library she worked for five years as a clinical medical librarian and instructor at the George Washington University Medical Center and for ten years as a clinical medical librarian at the Washington Hospital Center. As an Informationist for the NIH Library, Nancy works with the NHLBI Center for the Application of Research Discoveries, and for the Office of the Secretary, an HHS agency served by the NIH Library.	Nancy Terry 301-594-6274 terryn@nih.gov