Two faculty members at HSLIC have received recognition from the Medical Library Association (MLA) for their work in research and contributions to health sciences librarianship. Research Professor Gale Hannigan, PhD, MPH, MLS, AHIP, has been named an MLA Fellow and will be inducted at this year's MLA annual meeting. Lisa Acuff, MSIS, MPH, AHIP, has won a Research, Development, and Demonstration Project award for her work in the Diabetes Language Project. The project aims to promote the usage of empowering language in online patient education materials for those with Type 1 diabetes.
Hannigan joined HSLIC in 2011 with a career spanning more than 30 years in academic health science libraries. She has additionally received two of MLA's other highest honors, the Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year (1996) and the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award (2011). Acuff joined HSLIC in February 2022 with a long list of accomplishments, including managing a school library, instructing in several universities, creating community library programs, coordinating the Smithsonian Institution's volunteer research program, and directing the National Geographic Society's corporate learning program.
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