May 11 Webinar: ORCID Workshop for Researchers

Researchers, authors and students are invited to join an upcoming webinar to become more familiar with ORCID and it’s benefits. Beginning in November 2022, Emory has launched and Emory-ORCID connect campaign requesting all University researchers to connect their ORCID profiles with their Emory data. This 30-second action allows university systems to read a researches claimed Read More …

April 18 event to highlight oral history collections of Ebola and COVID-19 experiences POSTPONED

The following event has been postponed from its original April 18 date. The event will be moving to an all-virtual format with details to follow.   The Oral History Program at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will hold a panel discussion and view videos from a recently acquired collection Read More …

Library sponsors free FNLM webinar series on NIH Data Sharing: Jan 18, Feb 8, and Feb 22 at noon

The Emory Libraries will sponsor free access to the three-part virtual webinar series presented by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine: Advanced Methods of Data Science in Biomedical Research. This series is in direct response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) new data sharing requirements going into effect January 2023. Similar topics Read More …

Oct 31: Celebrate National Medical Librarians Month with Coffee and Treats

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has designated October as National Medical Librarians Month to raise awareness of the important role of the health information professional. On Monday, Oct 31st the WHSC Library programming committee will be giving away coffee/tea and candy from 11am-12pm in celebration. Come grab a treat and show some love to Read More …

Emory’s own Dr. Kylie Smith to give 13th annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture in the History of Medicine on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:00 PM ET

Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Associate Professor Kylie M. Smith will give this prestigious lecture, entitled Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and civil rights in the American South. The event will be live-streamed and archived by the NIH VideoCasting. Click here to view the full details of this National Library of Medicine event. Read More …

Join the WHSC for a Juneteenth Online Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Thursday June 16, 12 – 1:30 PM

To celebrate this year, the School of Medicine’s Office of Equity and Inclusion’s 3rd annual Juneteenth program is partnering with Emory Healthcare, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing,​ Rollins School of Public Health, and Grady Health System to host an online screening of the film Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution. Read More …

18th Annual Hamilton E. Holmes, MD Memorial Lecture to be held February 16

Named in honor of the first African American to graduate from Emory School of Medicine, the 18th annual Hamilton E. Holmes, MD Memorial Lecture will be held February 16 at 5pm via Zoom.  Titled “In Our Hands: Improving Health Outcomes for Black Mothers and Infants”, the session will feature a panel of healthcare leaders and Read More …

WHSC Library to kick-off Black History Month with “Jim Crow in the Asylum” Talk Thursday, Feb 3 at 12pm

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library will kick-off Black History Month with an online event on Thursday, Feb. 3, at noon. Dr. Kylie Smith, PhD, associate professor in the School of Nursing and the Department of History at Emory, will present “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Contesting Custody and Care in Southern Psychiatric Hospitals after Read More …