Daniel Hooker, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, eHealth Strategy Office, UBC

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Daniel Hooker,
Health librarian, MLIS

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Introduction

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Biography

Daniel Hooker is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the UBC eHealth Strategy Office. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and his Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from SLAIS in 2010.

The eHealth Strategy Office is dedicated to exploring the rapidly expanding role of technology across the health care spectrum, from patient care to health policy. Specifically, Daniel's work includes grant writing and coordination, research design and implementation, and technical support for projects related to mHealth (mobile devices), electronic communities of practice, and medical education. He has held previous positions at the UBC Biomedical Branch Library, CIHC Library, a national repository of materials dedicated to interprofessional practice and the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.

Daniel's primary research interests include online communication, eHealth and health technology and social media. His professional speaking experience includes presentations to the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Health Libraries Association of BC and the Cochrane Canada Symposium.

For more information, please visit http://danielhooker.com/ and on Twitter (@danhooker)

Research Interests

  • Social media
  • Social media strategy and policy development
  • Mobile health applications (mHealth, eHealth, telemedicine)
  • Mobile technology in library and information services and health research
  • Scholarly communication / open access publication

Papers

Conference and Invited Presentations

2012

2011

  • Giustini D, Grajales F, Hooker D. Using social media for evidence-based practice: a primer on blogs, wikis and Twitter. Cochrane Canada Symposium, 2011. Vancouver, BC.
  • Novak Lauscher H, Shen N, Hooker D. InterCultural online health network: a context for exploring social media to foster collaboration in community health. eHealth Investigative Partnership Program (eHIPP) Rounds, eHealth Strategy. Vancouver, BC. 2011.

2010

  • Ashmore A, Giustini D, Hooker D. To share is to learn: using social media to take libraries to learners. Health Libraries Association of BC. Burnaby, BC. 2010.
  • Shen N, Hooker D. Remote, hands-on You-Tube mediated education (RHYME) for medical residents: using social media to enable interactive feedback in rural medical clerkships. eHealth Investigative Partnership Program (eHIPP) Rounds, eHealth Strategy. Vancouver, BC. 2010.

2009

Other Activities

  • Communications Coordinator, Executive Committee, Health Libraries Association of BC (HLABC)
  • Member, Canadian Health Libraries Association
  • Former Member, Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) Coordinating Team, InspireNet

Collaboration with other librarians
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