Diane Cooper has a Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, and a BA degree in English from Kentucky Wesleyan College. She is certified by the Medical Library Association at the Distinguished Level. Diane has extensive experience in the corporate environment. She has worked for United HealthCare, Magellan Health Services,and Parexel Inc., a global bio/pharmaceutical services organization. She also has medical center experience, having worked in a Veterans Administration Medical Center and at the University of California, Davis medical library. In addition, she was librarian for the research laboratory of the National Institutes of Drug Abuse and Addiction, Addiction Research Center, at Lexington, Kentucky.

She joined the NIH library July, 2003. As an Informationist, Diane works with

• Indian Health Service headquarters and clinics and health care providers across the US.
• Endocrinology services of the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institutes of Kidney and Digestive Diseases;
• Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch, Center for Developmental Biology and Perinatal Medicine in the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; and the

Diane Cooper
301.594.2449
cooperd@mail.nih.gov

Janet Heekin has a Masters Degree in Library Science from Indiana University and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Cincinnati; and fieldwork in mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Prior to coming to the NIH Library, she held positions as a clinical librarian at the University of Pittsburgh, and medical library intern at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She joined the library in 1998. As an informationist, Janet works with   

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), where she provides expert search services in support of evidence-based health practice.
• Research administrators at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She provides a variety of information management and research services.
• She also provides information support to NIH researchers working on a variety of biodefense, chemicals weapons, and emerging and infectious diseases.

Her professional interests include: use of social technologies in libraries and public health; health information access; international health; and access to research by developing country healthcare providers and researchers.

Alicia Livinski
301.594.6423
livinska@od.nih.gov

As an Informationist for the NIH Library, Bradley works with

• Program Support Center

Nancy Terry began working in the NIH Library in 1995 as a Biomedical Librarian and joined the Informationist program in 2005. In addition to a Masters Degree in Library Science (MLS), Ms. Terry received a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland. Before coming to the NIH Library she worked for five years as a clinical medical librarian and instructor at the George Washington University Medical Center and for ten years as a clinical medical librarian at the Washington Hospital Center.

As an Informationist for the NIH Library, Nancy works with

• Office of the Secretary, an HHS agency served by the NIH Library.
• NHLBI Center for the Application of Research Discoveries.

 
Nancy Terry
301.594.6274
terryn@nih.gov

• HHS/Administration on Aging (AoA)
• HHS/Administration for Child and Families (ACF)
• NIDCD Extramural Program, NIDA Intramural Program,
• NCI Office of Science Policy. Prior to coming to the Library,

Anne worked as a Program Analyst in the NIDCD/SPPB where she tracked Federal health legislation, provided support to, and outreach for, the NIH Stem Cell Task Force and contributed to many reports required by Congress.