Xiaomei Gu is a Clinical Education Librarian at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. She is the library’s liaison to the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, where she holds an adjunct appointment as Assistant Professor. She is also the library’s liaison to the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and the Department of Pharmacology at the Carver College of Medicine. Xiaomei is an active member of the Medical Library Association and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Xiaomei’s previous position was as Emerging Technologies Librarian at Kirkwood Community College. While obtaining her Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) and Certificate in Bioinformatics at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she worked as a graduate assistant in The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Health Sciences Library. Prior to becoming a librarian, Xiaomei worked mostly in dental research. She also holds degrees in oral Biology, Oral Pathology, and Dentistry.
Articles
Phenotypic Variation of Fluoride Responses between Inbred Strains of Mice (with Dong Yan, Thomas L. Willett, E Angeles Martinez-Mier, Laura Sardone, Lauren McShane, Marc Grynpas, and Eric T. Everett), Cells Tissues Organs (2011)
Excessive systemic exposure to fluoride (F) can lead to disturbances in bone homeostasis and dental...
Librarians' Roles in Evidence-Based Dentistry Education: A Review of Literature and a Survey in North America, Medical Reference Services Quarterly (2010)
This study describes the current roles of dental librarians in Evidence-based Dentistry (EBD) education including...
[Studies on keratocystic odontogenic tumors] (with T J. Li, L S. Sun, H Y. Luo, J W. Luan, L Gao, X F. Li, and L L. Xu), Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao (2009)
Keratocystic odontogenic tumors (KCOTs, previously known as odontogenic keratocysts) are aggressive, noninflammatory jaw lesions with...
PTCH germline mutations in Chinese nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome patients (with T J. Li, J W. Yuan, L S. Sun, and H S. Zhao), Oral Diseases (2007)
Objectives: PTCH, the human homologue of the Drosophila segment polarity gene, patched, has been identified...
PTCH Mutations in Sporadic and Gorlin-syndrome-related Odontogenic Keratocysts (with H S. Zhao, L S. Sun, and T J. Li), JDR (2006)
Odontogenic keratocysts are relatively common lesions that may occur in isolation or in association...
Presentations
Direct action of fluoride on primary C57BL/6J bone marrow cells (with D Yan and E T. Everett), The 85th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research. (2007)
Background: The University of Iowa Libraries has recently taken the initiative to assess data management...
Posters
Data Management Needs Assessment Phase I: Web-based Survey (with Shawn Averkamp and Linda J. Walton), Medical Library Association annual meeting (2013)
Objectives Several funding agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) require or encourage developing...
First Year Experience: Librarian as Instructor of a Pharmacy Practice Laboratory, at 2012 Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting MLA (2012)
Pharmacy Practice Laboratory (PPL) Course Series are required courses for PharmD students to practice the...