This week’s #DiversityInHealthcare highlight is ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath.
Patricia Bath was born in 1942 in Harlem. She was inspired by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and her own family physician, Dr. Cecil Marquez, to pursue a career in medicine. She attended medical school at Howard University, had a fellowship at Columbia, and completed her residency at NYU.
The “firsts” achieved by Bath are too numerous to name, but among them are being the first African-American Ophthalmology resident at NYU, inventing the discipline of community ophthalmology, becoming the first woman on the faculty at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute, co-founding the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, and inventing the laserphaco probe and method for removing cataracts. WOW.
Dr. Patricia Bath spent her long and illustrious career working to reduce racial disparities in ophthalmic care and in doing so was able to restore sight to people who had been blind for over 30 years.
More info is available at https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_26.html
Photo source: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/static/img/portraits/26.jpg
Throughout the fall semester, we will be highlighting #DiversityInHealthcare on our social media. This week we are focusing on Mae Jemison.
Mae Jemison is best known as the first African-American woman in space, taking part in the STS-47 mission in September of 1992.
Prior to her time at NASA, Jemison attended medical school at Cornell and worked as a general practitioner. She also served as a medical officer in the Peace Corps for two+ years. Much of her work since NASA has focused on biotechnology and furthering STEM education for children.
Dr. Jemison has an impressive career, and she is also an informative and inspirational speaker. I had the opportunity to sit front and center for her John P. McGovern Award Lecture at the 2015 Medical Library Association meeting, and it was both fun and thought-provoking.
Dr. Mae Jemison, breaking barriers – on Earth and beyond – since 1956.
More info is available at https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_168.html
Photo source: https://images.nasa.gov/details-S92-40463
The Health Sciences Library plans to re-open with limited hours and capacity on Monday, August 17.
Our hours will be the following:
- Monday – Friday — 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday — Closed
- Sunday — 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Thank you for
- wearing a mask
- practicing social distancing
- practicing proper hand hygiene
- not bringing food or drink into the library
Closed until further notice
- group study rooms
- conference room
- quiet study room
- reading room
Much of the furniture in the open study areas, along with half of our computers, have been removed to encourage social distancing.
Optometry students, please enter the Compulink room through the door across from Cougar Grounds.
Most services, such as consultations and instruction sessions, will continue to be provided remotely.
Please check this space, https://libraries.uh.edu, our social media @uhoustonhslib, or contact rrhelbin@central.uh.edu for updates on our hours and policies.
Access to the literature is important for your learning and research. UH Libraries subscribes to a large number of journals in the health sciences. Many people use PubMed as their portal to access biomedical literature. Watch the video below for a quick tutorial on how to access full text articles through PubMed. Step-by-step instructions with screenshots are included below the video.
First, visit the link below.
Always make sure you are accessing PubMed through UH’s unique URL, rather than just visiting pubmed.gov.
Enter your search terms. Once you find an article of interest, click on the title. You will see a “UH Find This Item” button on the right side of the page, under “FULL TEXT LINKS.”
For journals to which we subscribe, clicking that button should take you to the full text of the article.
Depending on the publisher and whether you are on or off campus, you may be prompted to log in with your CougarNet account.
Look for a link to the PDF of the article and download it.
Alternatively, you can change the display of your results so that you don’t have to click on each individual title to get to the “UH Find This Item” button.
At the top right of the results page, click on “Display options” and then “Abstract.”
This will change the results page to show you the abstract of each article, with the “UH Find This Item” button appearing at the bottom of each abstract.
Again, click on the button to access the full text of the article.
I hope this helps! Please let us know if you have questions.
Beginning Monday, May 18, the Health Sciences Library will be closed, but staff will be on site from 9 am – 5 pm Monday through Friday.
For assistance, contact Rachel Helbing via email at rrhelbin@central.uh.edu or phone at 713-743-5462.
Those who have received permission to return to campus may request physical materials and/or printing.
Physical materials (books, models, etc.):
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- Send requests to rrhelbin@central.uh.edu. Once a pick-up time has been arranged, materials will be checked out and placed on top of the book drop in the hallway outside the library.
- Materials can be returned in the book drop.
Printing:
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- Send files to be printed as attachments to rrhelbin@central.uh.edu. Once a pick-up time has been arranged, prints will be placed on top of the book drop in the hallway outside the library.
All remaining library services will continue to be provided remotely, both on and off campus.
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- Reference/access questions
- Research consultations
- Instruction
- Literature search assistance
Thank you, and stay healthy!
The Health Sciences Library space is closed until further notice.
Please check this blog for updates.
Library services are still available!
We are working remotely to continue providing library services to our health sciences faculty, staff, and students.
Contact us for questions about electronic resources access, instruction requests, research consultations, literature search assistance, etc.
Ways to reach us:
- Contact your liaison librarian directly.
Rachel Helbing
713-743-5462
Health & Human Performance
Health Education
Medicine
Optometry
Pharmacy
Stefanie Lapka
713-743-8334
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Nursing
Social Work
- Contact our general email address. It will be monitored from 7 am – 6 pm Monday through Friday.
Try to stay healthy, everyone!
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been developing an updated version of PubMed which will replace the current interface sometime in early 2020.
New features will include enhanced search results and a responsive design for mobile devices.
The new site is currently available to preview and use at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=uhulib
Be sure to click on the green “Feedback” button in the lower right corner of the page to let NLM know what you think, or if you encounter any problems.
To help you get ready for this change, the Health Sciences Librarians will be hosting PubMed demonstration & help sessions in December (at the Health Sciences Library) and January (in the Faculty Café).
New PubMed demo drop-in sessions,
Held at the Health Sciences Library conference room:
Monday, December 2……….12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 3……….12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 5……..3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, December 10……..11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Thursday, December 12……12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Friday, December 13…………9:00 am – 11:00 am
Monday, December 16……..10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday, December 18..12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
New PubMed demo drop-in sessions,
Held at the Faculty Café:
Thursday, January 9…………8:30 am – 10:30 am
Friday, January 10……………8:30 am – 10:30 am
Wednesday, January 15……11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Thursday, January 23……….2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Not ready to make the switch? You can still access full-text articles through the current version of PubMed by using UH Libraries’ custom link, https://libraries.uh.edu/pubmed
Please stop by one of our upcoming sessions, or contact the Health Sciences Library with any questions.
Rachel Helbing, rrhelbin@central.uh.edu, 713-743-5462
Stefanie Lapka, slapka@central.uh.edu, 713-743-8334
You should now be able to call us on our main line and get through: 713-743-1910.
Apologies for the inconvenience caused by this outage.
The Health Sciences Library main desk phone lines are currently down. We are working with campus IT to solve this problem. In the meantime, please call Jessica (713-743-7870), Rachel (713-743-5462), or Stefanie (713-743-8334) directly for assistance.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
November is American Diabetes Month. Diabetes occurs when the body either does not produce insulin (Type 1), or does not produce or use insulin very well (Type 2). In both instances, the result is high blood sugar levels.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 15% of adults age 20 and over have diabetes. This is a disease that affects many members of the University of Houston community, whether directly or indirectly. It can be helpful to know where to find information that is geared toward multiple audiences on health topics like these.
To find trustworthy information about diabetes written for laypeople, visit MedlinePlus.gov. This is a website produced by the National Library of Medicine which helps to take some of the guesswork out of searching for health information online.
Those of you who are researchers, clinicians, or health sciences students may want to delve into the journal literature. We have the complete run of the journal Diabetes from the American Diabetes Association available online. You can also try searching PubMed with the MeSH term Diabetes Mellitus to find studies from a wide range of journals.
Be sure to visit our blog each month for new health observance summaries.