2025 Keynote

MIRL 2025 will feature a keynote panel of library leaders who will discuss topics relevant to a medical IR community.

Joining the keynote panel are Nicole Contaxis (NYU Health Sciences Library), Colin Lukens (Harvard Library), and Dina McKelvy (MaineHealth). MIRL Planning Committee member Pam Pierce (Oregon Health & Science University) will moderate the panel.

Keynote Bios:

Nicole Contaxis, Head, Data Sharing and Metadata Management, NYU Health Sciences Library, NYU Langone Health

As the Head of Data Sharing and Metadata Management and a member of the Data Services Team at the NYU Health Sciences Library, Nicole’s work focuses on research data infrastructure, research data practices, ethics, and policy, including leading ongoing the NYU Data Catalog. The NYU Data Catalog, created in 2014, is an open-source software project designed to help researchers locate data for secondary analysis and to make their own data more discoverable, regardless of where it is stored.

Colin Lukens, Senior Repository Manager, Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services

As Senior Repository Manager with Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, Colin has administered Harvard’s institutional repository (DASH) and its services for over 12 years. A trained archivist, he previously supported collection management and preservation at the Harvard University Archives. Colin is a founding member of both the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Institutional Repository Advisory Group and the Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) conference. He also serves as a Community At-Large representative on the DSpace Leadership Group and is a member of the California Digital Library’s eScholarship Advisory Council.

Dina McKelvy, Director of Medical Education - Library & Learning Commons, MaineHealth

Dina joined the Maine Medical Center Library staff in 2006 and became the Library Director in 2017. She is an Assistant Professor for Tufts University School of Medicine and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Maine Medical Center. Dina is a Fellow of the National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics program and completed a certificate in AI Strategies from Cornell in 2024.