Anna Ferri is the Evidence Synthesis Librarian at Colorado State university. She received her MLIS in 2015 from the iSchool at the University of British Columbia and a MEd in Instructional Design in 2018 from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Christine Neilson is the nursing liaison librarian at the University of Manitoba, with additional responsibilities related to knowledge synthesis support for the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. She has worked in a variety of academic and special health libraries over the past 20 years.

David has served the liaison librarian for the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Lethbridge for the last eight years. His research interests include topics in scholarly communications and electronic resource management. In his spare time, David enjoys birding and is currently working on a new field guide to the birds of Alberta.

Efren M. Torres, Jr., is an academic librarian at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. He has vast experience in managing academic projects and library leadership as the former Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Academics and Director of the Romeo P. Ariniego, MD, AFSC Library in De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute. His research interests include library management, collection assessment, and technological and spatial developments in libraries. Efren earned his degrees in Bachelor and Master of Library and Information Science from the School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines.

Elizabeth Yates (she/her) is a Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Brock University in St. Catharines, where she leads the Library’s Evidence Synthesis Working Group which was established in 2022. As well as providing consultations for researchers, her responsibilities include mentoring team members, leading projects which strengthen Brock’s support for ES research, and communicating with stakeholders in the Library and across campus.

Erin Langman (BA, MA, MLIS) is an Associate Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the liaison to the College of Nursing and Biomedical Sciences and provides leadership for the University Library's knowledge synthesis services. Before joining the University of Saskatchewan, Erin worked as a Research Associate, leading knowledge synthesis projects in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, and as the Liaison Librarian for the School of Nursing at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. She has served as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association from 2016-2017 and 2019-2022 and will be serving as Director, CE Coordinator CHLA/ABSC for 2024-2026.

Liaison librarian for Health Sciences, Kinesiology and Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Gary S. Atwood is a Library Associate Professor and Systematic Review Librarian at the University of Vermont’s Dana Health Sciences Library. His primary responsibility is to serve as team leader for the library’s new systematic review service. He also participates, as either a collaborator or co-author, on reviews in UVM's Larner College of Medicine, the College of Nursing and Allied Health, and the University of Vermont Medical Center. His research interests include information seeking behavior of students, faculty, and researchers as well as the use to technology in the research process. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Glyneva Bradley-Ridout (she/hers) is a liaison and education librarian at Gerstein Science Information Center at the University of Toronto. In her role, she liaises with the faculty of pharmacy and departments of pharmacology & toxicology and nutritional sciences. She also selects for the health sciences collection.

Heather Cunningham is the Assistant Director for Research & Innovation Services at the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto. She has a Master of Science in genetics as well as an MLIS from McGill University. She has been a professional librarian for over twenty-five years at the University of Toronto. She is accountable for the knowledge synthesis service as well as the entrepreneurship portfolios at her library. She was instrumental in the development of the highly successful science outreach and communication programming. She has presented on a wide range of topics including leadership, science and public engagement, responsible usage of research metrics, web development, and green strategies for academic libraries. She has co-authored knowledge synthesis reviews in the role of information specialist.

Iveta Lewis has been a library and archives manager at Holland Bloorview Hospital since 2020. She is very familiar with the health sciences librarianship context from the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and as a solo librarian at North York General Hospital. One of her most gratifying projects was setting up a children's library for the 519 Community Centre in Toronto. She served at the Health Sciences Information Consortium (HSIC) Management Board from 2020 -2022. She has been an active Council member of the Ontario Health Library and Information Association since 2021. At Holland Bloorview, her mission is to integrate and promote the library’s services to all departments and programs. She represents the library and collaborates with the Holland Bloorview IDEAA committee and Bioethics Forum. She is very passionate about constructing literature searches and thinks of herself as a detective when she finds what a patron is looking for. She was awarded a prestigious Joan Leishmann Award of Merit in 2023 for her outstanding contributions to library realm.

​Janice Kung is a tenured ​Health ​Sciences ​​Librarian at the University of Alberta. She is also an instructor of LIS 520: Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship in the School of Library & Information Studies at the U of A. Her ​interests include measuring research impact using responsible metrics and integrating sound pedagogy in her teaching.

Team Lead William Osler Health System / Brampton Civic Hospital, Medical Libraries, Brampton, Ontario.

Co-Author of: OOPS! They Did IT Again! How to Better Manage the Relationship with IT Departments and Avoid Conflict, Journal of Hospital Librarianship

Author of: Oops! They did IT again…the finale

Leah Boulos is an information specialist, evidence synthesis methodologist, and project manager. She is currently a Program Manager at the Strengthening Transitions in Care Lab at IWK Health, where she is managing a 5-year trial of a patient-managed discharge communication tool for use in the emergency department. Prior to joining the IWK, she worked at the Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit where she supported over 150 evidence synthesis projects including several rapid reviews and scoping reviews for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Health Canada, and other organizations through the SPOR Evidence Alliance. She holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the Dalhousie University School of Information Management (SIM), where she was the recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks International Leadership Fund Award and the SIM Director's Award, and is a former president of the Maritimes Health Libraries Association.

Lindsey Sikora is the dynamo leading the charge for Health Sciences, Medicine, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HMSTEM) at the University of Ottawa Library. Armed with a Master of Information Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor's in Behavioural Neuroscience from Laurentian University, Lindsey is now diving into her PhD at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. Her research? Unraveling the mysteries and misadventures of early career researchers and librarians navigating systematic and scoping reviews.

With a knack for collaboration, Lindsey has teamed up with numerous research groups across medicine, health sciences, education, and librarianship to synthesize knowledge and spark innovation. When she’s not buried in books or research, you can find her fueling her day with copious amounts of coffee and cracking up over the latest Dad jokes.

As the Clinical Medical Librarian, I support the faculty, staff, students, residents, fellows, and trainees in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences at The University of Toledo. A part of my position includes supporting the College of Medicine's journal (aka Translation) and connecting researchers of all different levels of experience together - usually, it's working to connect students with faculty or trainees. When I am not doing any of these, I usually end up creating research projects to improve my understanding of a problem or situation.

Coordonnatrice du consortium des ressources électroniques du RUISSS UdeM depuis 2018, elle œuvre au sein du Réseau Universitaire Intégré de Santé et de Service Sociaux (RUISSS) de l’Université de Montréal depuis 2015. Elle a développé une offre de service provinciale pour l’accès aux ressources documentaires pour les professionnels de la santé et des services sociaux. Son expertise combine la négociation des contrats de licences, l’analyse statistique de l’utilisation des ressources, la gestion des accès et le développement de collections numériques ainsi que la coordination de services. Elle siège depuis 2022 sur le conseil d’administration de la Fédération des milieux documentaire (FMD) en tant qu’administratrice. Elle est présidente de la section Santé et Services sociaux de la Fédération des milieux documentaires (FMD3S) et du chapitre québécois de l’ABSC/CHLA. Avant de se joindre au RUISSS de l'UdeM, elle a œuvré dans les bibliothèques universitaires.

Meg Miller is the GIS & Data Visualization Librarian at the University of Manitoba. In her past life she worked as a cartographer and GIS analyst and brings this applied lens to her role. She currently serves as the editor in chief The Bulletin- the open journal for the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) and is president elect of WAML (Western Association of Map Libraries).

Client Success Manager, LibLynx Publisher Division. Michelle’s experience includes working in academic libraries and as a metadata librarian for the ExLibris and as a SaaS Products Implementation Project Manager for EBSCO.

Michelle is active in the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the National Information Standards Organization, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. She also sits on the CORE Federated Authentication Committee. Michelle holds a PhD in Music History from the University of Chicago and a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.

Minakshi Sharma is an Information & Policy Management Consultant at Toronto Public Health (TPH). Designing a survey for library staff has been a humbling experience. She has experience planning instruction sessions, conducting comprehensive searches and tackling information or data management tasks within academic, public health, and hospital libraries for over 15 years. Minakshi is an alum of the Association of Research Libraries Kaleidoscope Program. Currently, she is serving as Past-President for the Toronto Health Library Association.

Monique Clar is a HS knowledge synthesis librarian at Université de Montréal. She was previously a medical librarian. She is a JBI certified reviewer.

Neera Bhatnagar, BSc, MLIS, is the Head of Public Services & Systems, Coordinator of Research Support at the Health Sciences Library, McMaster University. In addition to being a senior manager in the library, she is an expert searcher and is actively involved with research teams working on systematic reviews, practice guidelines and other complex topics. Other interests include open access publishing, evidence-based practice in healthcare and exploring the use of AI technologies.

Orvie Dingwall (she/her) is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Manitoba and is Head of the Outreach unit that provides library services and resources to health professional throughout Manitoba. Since 2021 she has been President of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), the union which represents 1,300 full-time professors, instructors, and librarians at the University of Manitoba. For over a decade UMFA members have been developing their skills to "organize for power", by providing an increasing number of opportunities for members to be involved in their union, to mobilize to demonstrate their collective strength, and to collectively advocate for improvements to post-secondary education in Manitoba. Since 2024 she has been a member of her local Winnipeg Public Library’s Advisory Committee and is engaged in community efforts to lobby for improvements to library funding and building the community library system that Winnipegers need and deserve.

Robin Parker, MLIS PhD candidate, works at the WK Kellogg Health Sciences Library as a liaison librarian for Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine, and supports learners, faculty, and staff in undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate Medicine programs. She also supports students and researchers across Dalhousie with evidence synthesis projects and is cross-appointed as an adjunct research associate with CHE. Currently an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate finishing her dissertation, Robin’s research explores academic health librarians’ contributions to teaching systematic review and other evidence synthesis methods. Robin lives in Kespukwitk, a district of Mi'kma'ki along the Bay of Fundy. She is grateful to live in the rural community where she was born on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people. In consideration of the Treaties of Peace and Friendship signed in Mi’kma’ki and our collective continual efforts to decolonize and seek reconciliation for the harms of our educational and health systems, Robin is committed to learning about Indigenous ways of knowing and research methodologies. She encourages researchers to incorporate disparate voices and types of knowledge into evidence syntheses and to include those impacted by the issues we research in the entire research process.

Stephanie Sanger (she/her) serves as the Education and Curriculum Planning Librarian at the McMaster University Health Sciences Library. She currently works providing education and research services to students, staff, faculty, and healthcare professionals. Her interests include knowledge synthesis searching support, the use of storytelling and narrative medicine in undergraduate education and collecting graphic medicine titles.

Zack is the manager of library services and hospital archives at Unity Health Toronto (St. Michael's Hospital, St. Joseph's Health Centre, and Providence Healthcare). He cares a lot about library advocacy, is interested in how we measure, evaluate, and communicate the impact of library work, and is an enthusiastic supporter of professional development for all library workers.