Public Biography
Kristine M. Alpi is Associate Dean of Libraries & Information Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She was previously University Librarian and Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon. She remains Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population Health & Pathobiology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Previous leadership positions include Director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at NCSU and Associate Library Director at the rank of Associate Librarian (and Lecturer in Public Health in the Department of Public Health) at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Alpi holds a Masters of Library Science from Indiana University, a Masters of Public Health from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a PhD in Educational Research & Policy Analysis from NCSU. A 1997-98 Associate Fellow of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Alpi served as an Educational Collaborator with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, steering committee member of the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, member of the NLM Planning Panel on Clinical & Public Health Information Systems for the 21st Century, and member of the NLM Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee Study Section from 2011-2015 where she continues as an ad-hoc reviewer and chairs Special Emphasis Panels. A Distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Alpi served on the MLA Board of Directors from 2014-2016 and as President of MLA as of May 2021. She is Chair of AMIA's Education Working Group.