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Sherrilynne Fuller , Ph.D.
Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center
Associate Dean, University Libraries
Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics,  School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine
Professor,  Information School
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Box 35-7155
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Email -- sfuller@u.washington.edu
Web -- http://faculty.washington.edu/sfuller/
206-543-5531   FAX 206-543-3389


Brief Biographical Sketch:

Sherrilynne Fuller currently serves as  Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center and Associate Dean, University Libraries,  University of Washington.  Her other responsibilities include:  Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region;  Professor,  Biomedical and Health Informatics,  School of Medicine; Professor, Information School and Adjunct  Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine.    She has a BA degree in Biology, a Master's in Library Science from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California.

Fuller's research  areas include:  developing approaches to improve health information systems and technologies to for low-resource environments across the world;   developing new approaches to represent and map the results of scientific research in support of knowledge discovery;  design and evaluation of health information systems to support decision making at the place and time of need; and integrated health sciences information systems design with a primary focus on human factors.

Fuller serves as co-director and researcher, Center for Public Health Informatics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine.    She serves as Principal Investigator  of  the Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center contract from the NLM to serve as the Regional Medical Library for the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon).  She has   She served as the founding head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Washington.

Fuller has served  as a member of the President's (White House) Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and on the Boards of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Medical Library Association.  She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Medical Library Association. 

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