Len Levin

Office: S1-606
Phone: 508-856-6028
Email: Len.Levin@umassmed.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Title

Acting Head, Education and Clinical Services

Department

Community, Technology & Global Relations

Brief Biography

Len Levin is the Acting Head of Education and Clinical Services at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Len holds a Masters Degree in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College and a Master of Arts in Psychology and Religion from Andover Newton Theological School. Prior to joining UMass in 2003, Len was the Health Sciences Librarian at the Paul E. Woodard Health Sciences Library, New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. He has worked in the health care field since 1982.

Appointments

Faculty appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Partnerships and Affiliations

• Currently serving as liaison to the Department of Psychiatry and the Family Medicine Residency program at Barre Health Center
• Member of North East Group on Educational Affairs/Librarians in Medical Education special interest group

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Evidence-based medicine; library-curriculum integration; mental health

Teaching and/or Research

• Co-Instructor in Evidence-Based Medicine. Department of Family Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. (2004-present).
• Co-Instructor. Evidence-Based Medicine and the Medical Librarian. North Atlantic Health Science Libraries Annual Meeting. Sebasco Harbor Estates, ME. October 4, 2004.
• Co-instructor. Teaching in Libraries: Skills to Become a Better Instructor. North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Meeting. Woodstock, VT. October 28, 2004.
• Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group & Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona Joint Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. February 6, 2008.

Publications

• Levin L. (1999). Beware of roadblocks on the way to Arial. National Network. 24(4):14.
• Fladger A., Levin L. (2001). Proposed changes to the Hospital Libraries Section. National Network. 26(1):16-17.
• Dadoly J., Palmer L., Levin L.(2005). Samuel B. Woodward: a Nineteenth-Century Pioneer in American Psychiatric Care. Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 16, 2005, San Antonio, Texas. Available on eScholarship@UMMS.
• Levin L., Comes J. (2006). Dancing Between the Purist and the Practical: Teaching Evidence- Based Medicine in the 3rd Year Family Medicine Clerkship. Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 22, 2006, Phoenix, Arizona. Available on eScholarship@UMMS
• Riza L., Pasquale SJ., Lydon A., Barrett A., Levin L. (2007). Developing a WebCT Support Program to Take Teaching to a Higher Level. Poster presented at the University of Massachusetts Instructional Technology Conference, April 5, 2007, Sturbridge, MA. Available on eScholarship@UMMS
• Gildea R., Levin L. (2007). Bibliotherapy: Patient Libraries and Reading Programs, One Component of the Moral Treatment Revolution. Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 21, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan
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• Maggio L., Levin L., Tannery N., Thompson LL., Whelan J. (2007). Libraries in Medical Education (LIME): A Special Interest Group of NEGEA. Poster presented at the North East Group on Educational Affairs Annual Retreat, June 7, 2007, Stony Brook, NY. Available on eScholarship@UMMS

Presentations

• 1998 Annual MAHSLIN (Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network) meeting, April 29, 1998, Lexington, MA., Topic: The Politics of Creating a Hospital Library Web Page.
• 2002 Annual MAHSLIN (Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network) meeting, April 25, 2002, Boylston, MA., Topic: Providing Consumer Health Services: Examples and Models.
• Speaker at Massachusetts Health Data Consortium's 2006 Healthcare Information Technology Conference "Evidence-Based Medicine: from Research to Practice," February 3, 2006.
• Co-presenter at U Mass Memorial Department of Family and Community Medicine Grand Rounds, "My Patient Has Poison Ivy&: 'Itching' to Know Best Library Information Resources," July 17, 2007.

Honors and Awards

• Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Distinguished Member