ICML Conference 2009: Keynote Speaker

Carol Lefebvre

Senior Information Specialist
UK Cochrane Centre
National Institute for Health Research

Biography:

Carol Lefebvre is the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre where she has worked since 1992. Previously she was Deputy Librarian at the University of Oxford Medical School library. She co-ordinates the identification of reports of trials for inclusion in CENTRAL in The Cochrane Library and facilitates the inclusion of these trials in Cochrane reviews by supporting Trials Search Co-ordinators in the various Cochrane Review Groups. She was Principal Investigator on two European Union-funded projects involving six other Cochrane Centres, to identify reports of trials by handsearching European journals. She also initiated the systematic searching of MEDLINE and EMBASE for all reports of trials.

Presentation:

Positioning the profession: reflections and projections