Keynote Speakers

Dr. P.M. Forni 

Dr. P.M. Forni, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, co-founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project (JHCP) in 1997.  Aimed at assessing the significance of civility, manners and politeness in contemporary society, the JHCP has been reconstituted as The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, which Dr. Forni now directs. His book Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct (2002) has been translated into German and Italian. He contributed to a chapter on ethics and international protocol in the Convention Industry Council International Manual (2005). His article "The Other Side of Civility," appeared in the November, 2005 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine.  In 2008, Dr. Forni published The Civility Solution: What to Do when People Are Rude. Listen to an interview from the JHU Great Ideas podcast. 

Tuesday October 6, 9:15 am - 10:15 am

Lee Rainie

Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit, non–partisan "fact tank" that studies the social impact of the internet. The Project has issued more than 200 reports based on its surveys that examine people's online activities and the internet's role in their lives. Lee is a co-author of Up for Grabs, Hopes and Fears, and the forthcoming Ubiquity, Mobility, Security, a series of books about the future of the internet published by Cambria Press and based on Project surveys. Listen to an April, 2009 uncut interview from NPR's On the Media.

Wednesday October 7, 9:00 am - 10:15 am

M.J. Tooey

MJ Tooey is Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs and Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore. MJ has a long history of involvement in MLA, having served as President, on the MLA Board of Directors, as chair of the MLA 2004 National Program Committee, and as chair of Chapter Council. She also chaired the MLA/Pew Credible Information Task Force and has been chair of the Public Services Section and of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MLA (MAC).  A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, MJ was winner of the Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year in 1997. She was named MAC Librarian of the Year in 1996 and received their Marguerite Abel Service Recognition Award in 1991. MJ Tooey has over twenty years of experience in both hospital and academic libraries.

Thursday October 8, 11:00 am - noon

Hospital Librarians Luncheon Speaker

Karen Drenkard

Dr. Karen Drenkard, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAAN is currently serving as the Director of the Magnet Recognition Program for the American Nurses Credentialing Center.  She comes to this role having served as the senior vice president of nursing/chief nurse executive of Inova Health System, an integrated not for profit healthcare delivery system in northern Virginia.. 

Drenkard has published numerous articles in the nursing literature on topics including strategic planning and leadership, disaster preparedness, quality and safety in nursing, and was the principal investigator in a HRSA funded research involving the implementation of a human caring model in acute care hospitals.  She has completed research on the impact of leadership styles of nurse managers and the staff nurses intent to leave.  She is currently serving as an editorial advisor to Journal of Nursing Administration and Nursing Administration Quarterly (NAQ). She has served as the Chairperson of the Virginia Governor’s Council on the Future of Nursing and on Virginia’s Health Reform Commission.   She is an active member of many nursing and civic organizations, including the National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice (NAC-NEP), the American Organization of Nurse Executives, is an executive board member of the Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives, and serves on the Board of Visitors for the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. 

Drenkard received her doctorate in nursing administration from George Mason University, is a 2003 Wharton Nurse Executive Fellow, and a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow 2003-2006.  In addition to her certification in nursing administration, advanced, (CNAA) Drenkard is also a certified healthcare quality professional (CPHQ).  

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12 - 1:30pm

Wednesday Evening Banquet Speaker

Margaret Buchholz

Margaret Thomas Buchholz was publisher of the Long Beach Island, New Jersey Shore, newspaper The Beachcomber from 1955 to 1987, and is still an editor. She has written or edited five other books, including Shore Chronicles, Island Album, Four Seasons at the Shore, New Jersey Shipwrecks and Great Storms of the Jersey Shore. Ms Buchholz grew up in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, where her family has been coming since 1833, and currently lives year-round in her childhood home on the Island.

http://www.down-the-shore.com/mtb.html

Wednesday, October 7, 6:30 pm --  

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3502 under the University of Maryland, Baltimore.