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Posted by Miles Dietz-Castel on July 14th, 2025
Posted in: Blog
After four years with the Region 6 Office, Erica Lake will depart the University of Iowa on July 31. She is returning to the Essentia Institute of Rural Health, where she worked before joining NNLM.
Erica came to the University of Iowa in 2021 as the NNLM Region 6 Medical and Academic Librarian Coordinator building capacity for biomedical information with academic health science and hospital librarians as well as librarians of Tribal community colleges.
In her role, she provided training on a variety of NLM databases including PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov and hosted webinar speakers such as Dr. Zhiyong Lu, a leading NIH researcher of AI. In collaboration with a multi-institutional team from the National Library of Medicine and the National Health and Medical Research Council Trials Centre at the University of Sydney, she guided the development of two tools to help systematic reviewers navigate ClinicalTrials.gov.
Erica managed two State Advisory Groups, which included a partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Minnesota to translate their Crisis Mental Health Resources Handout into four languages. She served as an elected officer for the MLA Midwest Chapter Executive Board and was appointed to the MLA National Program Committee.
Before her last day with us, Erica teaches one final ClnicalTrials.govclass. Please join us in thanking Erica for her contributions and wishing her well in her next chapter.
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