Julie J. McGowan
Information Resources and Educational Technology,
Indiana School of Medicine

Julie J. McGowan holds a Ph.D. in Medical Education and an M.A. in Medical Iconography from the University of South Carolina and an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland. Dr. McGowan is Associate Dean for Information Resources and Educational Technology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and was appointed as the first Professor of Knowledge Informatics in the nation. She is also a Professor of Pediatrics and holds adjunct appointments in Nursing and Library and Information Science as well as being a founding faculty member of IU’s School of Informatics, an Affiliated Scientist in the Regenstrief Institute, and a Research Scientist at the VA Medical Center.

Formerly Associate Dean for Health Sciences Informatics and Library Resources at the University of Vermont, she is credited with the development of VTMEDNET, the first comprehensive state-wide health information network in the country, for which she was given the Institute for Scientific Information’s 1996 Frank Bradway Rogers Award for Information Advancement. She has also been the recipient of the Medical Informatics Career Development Award to research Larry Weed’s Problem Knowledge Couplers, and for her work in medical informatics education she received the Lucretia McClure Excellence in Education Award in 2001. In 2003 she was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and in 2005 she was elected as a Fellow of the Medical Library Association.

Dr. McGowan serves as Principal Investigator and Director of NLM’s National Outreach Mapping Center and as site PI for the Health Information Technology Resource Center contract from the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality. She is also Co-PI on several informatics grants with faculty from the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. McGowan is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters; her research interests include evidence utilities in decision support, economic impact and human factors in telemedicine and medical technology implementation, and tools and outcomes of educational technology and medical informatics education.

Dr. McGowan has served on numerous federal study sections and special emphasis panels as well as editorial boards for medical, nursing and medical library journals. She has held a number of national offices including the Chair of the Group on Information Resources of the AAMC, membership on the Board of the IAIMS Consortium and the Board of the Medical Library Association, and membership on the Scientific Program Committees of AMIA and ACMI.

She and her husband are avid scuba divers and balance their vacations between diving and sailing on Windjammers in the Caribbean. She notes that swimming with the sharks is frequently less frightening than academic or even NIH politics.