Deborah Deatrick is Vice President for Community Health at MaineHealth, Northern New England’s largest health care system, serving 11 of Maine’s 16 counties and three-fourths of the state’s population.  Ms. Deatrick leads and oversees the system's prevention and population health initiatives, including the Center for Tobacco Independence (Maine Tobacco Helpline, clinical outreach, training statewide; worksite tobacco treatment services); Learning Resource Centers (community-based health libraries); CarePartners  (health care access to the uninsured); Raising Readers (statewide child and family health literacy program through well child clinics); and MaineHealth Works on Wellness employee health improvement for the system’s 13,000 + employees and dependents).  
Prior to coming to MaineHealth Ms. Deatrick served as Executive Director for Health Commons Institute, a national organization that promotes informed shared decision making among patients and their health care providers through the use of information technology.  
Ms. Deatrick has thirty years of experience in public health teaching, research, and advocacy and frequently writes and lectures about provider-patient communication issues, health literacy, and patient self management.  Ms. Deatrick has a degree in public health from the University of Michigan and completed doctoral coursework in educational design and measurement at the University of Houston and University of Maine at Orono.

Lizz Sinclair has been a Program Officer for the Maine Humanities Council for the past ten years, serving as the coordinator for Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care^®, an innovative reading and discussion program that helps health care professionals reflect on their work through the lens of literature. The program cuts across disciplines, bringing together nurses, librarians, physicians, administrators, support staff, chaplains, lab techs, midwives, and others who are either directly or indirectly involved in caring for patients within hosting health care facilities. The Maine Humanities Council developed the program in 1997; through partnerships with other state humanities councils and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the program has grown to involve over 180 health care facilities (including 15 Veterans Administration hospitals) in 25 states across the country. As the Literature & Medicine  coordinator, Lizz works closely with health care professionals, scholars and colleagues at other humanities councils in her role as a trainer and mentor for the program, organizes national conferences, and edits Synapse, Literature & Medicine’s e-zine.  She can be found painting when not at the Council.

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All aboard for a guided tour of Adobe Connect for web conferencing and e-learning.  Learn how to host a meeting on Adobe Connect, the next best thing to meeting in person!  This cool tool for collaboration and training allows participants to share their desktop for live demonstration of online resources, share presentations, communicate with web cams and much more!  Learn tips to create successful web conferencing and e-learning experiences.  Attend this program and become the Adobe Connect expert at your institution!

Michelle L. Eberle, MS LIS, is the Consumer Health Information Coordinator (CHIC) for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region. With a position with a really neat acronym, she travels around New England educating librarians, health professionals and consumers about National Library of Medicine resources and services. In 2000, Michelle earned a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston, MA. Elizabeth Eaton’s Medical Librarianship course inspired Michelle to pursue a career in the field.  In 1997, Michelle graduated from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut with a Bachelors of Arts in Social Work with a Music Minor from a brief stint at Juilliard studying viola performance.  After graduating from Simmons, Michelle worked as Medical Librarian at the Somerville Hospital. At Somerville Hospital, she discovered her passion for consumer health librarianship by serving on the patient education committee and her interest in instructional librarianship by offering educational programming for nurses and residents.  Michelle is an early adopter of using Adobe Connect and Moodle for NN/LM communications with members and educational programming.

The Medical Library of any provider institution is an integral resource for both the medical and lay communities.  Its mission of providing high quality health information is intimately linked to the mission of providing high quality health care.  Library-specific grants are available and continue to be critical to the development and sustainability of these resources. Increasingly more valuable, though, is linking the Medical Library directly to new programs by including it as a value-added resource in non library-specific programmatic grants.  In this breakout session participants will learn how this is being done at Central Maine Medical Center.