Nunzia B. Giuse, M.D., M.L.S., A.H.I.P., is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Prior to coming to Vanderbilt in 1994, Dr. Giuse established herself as an independent researcher in the area of multi-center medical knowledge base acquisition strategies while at the University of Pittsburgh. She conducted a systematic sequence of investigations of medical knowledge base methodologies from 1988-95 that represents a significant contribution to the relatively new field of medical informatics. This work has been described in a series of publications in SCAMC Proceedings, Methods of Information in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and JAMIA. While at the University of Pittsburgh, she was Co-Principal Investigator, Project Director, or Principal Investigator on a number of research grants sponsored by NIH/NLM and by the CAMDAT Foundation. Since coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Giuse has served as Principal Investigator for the NLM-funded grant projects "Integrating Health Science Librarians into Biomedicine" (1995-96), "AIDS Information Outreach Project" (1995), "Information Access for Public Health Professionals" (1999-2000), and is an active participant in Vanderbilt's IAIMS activities (1995-2000). Dr. Giuse plays a central role in the Informatics Center's information outreach activities, and members of her staff help to coordinates the VUMC Web-based presence. She is very active in organizing the continuing training and professional development of the Eskind Biomedical Library professional and para-professional staff. She has pioneered the application of models from the adult learning research literature to continuing professional education within the library. She has also pioneered the idea of actively involving the library in VUMC clinical activities, and has gained national recognition for this work.