Jeffery Loo

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Current projects

2008 - present

University of North Carolina Hospitals

• Student volunteer for the library cart: providing reading materials to patients and visitors

2007 - present

Duke University Medical Center Library

• Field study student exploring chemical informatics needs and services for the library

2006 - present

Mobile Medical Computing Reviews

• Founding editor responsible for editing, coordinating and managing the digital publication of the e-journal

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• PhD studies at UNC School of Information and Library Science.

Past projects

2005 - 2006

University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies

• MSc Chemoinformatics studies; completed my dissertation at GlaxoSmithKline Stevenage titled "Tracing Small Molecules in Lead Optimization"

2004 - 2005

Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University

• Conversion of the PLoS Medicine journal to a PDA format
  As a volunteer for HandheldsForDoctors.com, I am responsible for preparing the handheld version of PLoS Medicine.
  
  
• PDA services for medical libraries
  I have completed a study of PDA services for medical libraries in North America. A conceptual framework for medical library PDA services was developed and used for preparing service recommendations at the Welch Medical Library.
  
  
• Welch Library PDA Task Force
  I initiated a library-wide task force to study PDA services development. As chair, I led the team in studying the PDA needs and service priorities at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. This study was based on my earlier PDA service recommendations. I have prepared a detailed report (with appendix).
  
  
• Welch Library PDA Committee
  I formed a committee to strengthen and develop PDA services at the Welch Library. As chair, I helped to define committee goals and outcomes.
  
  
• Welch Library home page for PDAs
  I worked on the development of a PDA-compatible library website. For handheld users, this site will outline library services and provide useful resources.
  
  
• Conversion of documents to a PDA format
  I have prepared a proposal for converting local hospital practice guidelines for PDA display.
  
  
• Chemoinformatics
  I studied chemoinformatics looking at library services for this field.
  I wrote a paper to introduce chemoinformatics for a journal club discussion at Welch Library.
  
  
• Organized a lecture series on emerging information technologies
  The topics included open source software, RSS, and blogs. The three lectures were recorded and archived for viewing on the web. Further details.
  
  
• Analysis of the information behavior and needs of basic medical science researchers
  I volunteered as a research assistant in the PELICAN lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine. This pathology lab studies lethal metatstatic prostate cancer and uses a specially developed web-based software to manage workflow and data collection in all stages of the research process. This experience helped me to understand the user needs of translational medicine researchers.
  

2003 - 2004

US National Library of Medicine

• PubMed help manual online book
  Published NLM's PubMed help manual as an online book in the NCBI Bookshelf format.
  I edited the manual, authored new sections, converted the manual to XML, and oversaw its initial publication.
  
  
• Linking NLM's Household Products Database to PubMed
  I designed a computer algorithm for generating hyperlinks in chemical records that will retrieve medical literature citations (i.e., connecting records in the Household Products Database (HPD) and PubMed).
  I also wrote a Java program to automate the XML file generation for PubMed LinkOut to HPD.