SLA Biomedical and Life Sciences Division

Nominations

See DBIO Recommended Practices - Nomination of Officers


2019 Nominations & Elections Committee

Cynthia Sheffield
Cynthia Sheffield ('18-'19)
Chair
Peggy Murphy
Peggy Murphy ('19-'20)
Neyda Gilman
Neyda Gilman ('18-'19)

Danielle Walker ('18-'19)


Vacant Positions and Nominees:

CHAIR-ELECT: TO BE ELECTED 2020-2021

Proposed Candidate: Layla Heimlich

Layla Heimlich has been a medical librarian at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and a member of SLA since 2007. She has been the Chair of the DBIO Medical Section (2010), and has held various positions on the board of the DC SLA Chapter, currently serving as Treasurer. She received her MILS from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2007, where she specialized in medical librarianship.

Additional nonprofit financial experience includes current service as Treasurer for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the MLA, as well as prior service as treasurer for other local chapters of non-library-related national nonprofit organizations (multiple terms as treasurer for the Old Stone House Society, Children of the American Revolution and for the New York Chapter of the Friends of Lulu, promoting women in comics), and current service as chair of the finance committee for the Manor House Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and as a member of the bookkeeping committee of the Bethesda Elementary PTA. She has experience with Quicken, QuickBooks, and the use of Excel spreadsheets for finance and budget work.


DIRECTOR: TO BE ELECTED 2020-2021

Proposed Candidate: Danielle Walker



TREASURER: TO BE ELECTED 2020-2021

Proposed Candidate: Nancy Curtis






Rev. November 2019