Current Role at UMB

Emily Gorman is the Research and Education Librarian for the School of Pharmacy. She teaches students, faculty, and staff how to find the most useful and reliable information for course assignments, research, and patient care. Additionally, she collaborates on systematic reviews and supports researchers in publication planning as well as measuring their research impact. Her main areas of research are instructional techniques and altmetrics.

Education

MLIS, Academic Libraries Specialization, University of Pittsburgh

BA, Psychology and Religious Studies, University of Virginia

Expertise

Drug information

Literature searching

Systematic and scoping reviews

Measuring research impact and altmetrics

Professional Affiliations / Activities

Professional Participation

• American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Division
• Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC-MLA)
• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Presentations and Publications

Presentations and publications can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1210-1082.

Honors and Awards

Research Award - Second Place Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association. August 2020.

Laboratory Innovation and Teaching Excellence Award from the Laboratory SIG of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. March 2020.

First Prize, Research Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association. October 2018.