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Will Olmstadt is currently Executive Director and Professor of Medical Library Science at LSU Health Shreveport. He has worked in libraries in some capacity since 1994. Prior
to his current position, he was a librarian on the staff of Texas A&M University Medical Sciences Library, UT Southwestern, and Washington University School of Medicine. For 2 years he was director of DeVry University library services for the Dallas/Fort Worth
area campuses.
Will earned a BA in psychology magna cum laude from the University of Louisville, an MSLS from the University of Kentucky, and an MPH from the University of Texas Health Sciences
Center at Houston. As part of his public health coursework, he completed a GIS internship with the DFW AHEC, and completed a thesis on the quality of published clinical trials of interventions for hazardous & harmful drinking. He was selected as NLM/AAHSL
Leadership Fellow for the 2016/2017 cohort.
In spring 2018, Will taught the health sciences librarianship elective for the MLIS program at LSU School of Information Studies. In 2019, he earned the Online Teaching Certificate
from the Online Learning Consortium, Inc. He is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and holds the CHIS level I certificate, both from the Medical Library Association. He is currently working on an Ed.D. from LSU Shreveport.
He has recently volunteered for greeting card ministries for the ill or homebound, and local no-kill cat shelters.
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