Nandita Mani, PhD, MLIS​
Dean of University Libraries
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nandita S. Mani is the Associate University Librarian for Health Sciences and Director of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Mani oversees one of the nation’s leading health affairs libraries. The UNC Health Sciences Library (HSL) is the primary library for the University’s schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. Mani has published in the areas of health literacy and global health, information science, data science, and instructional design and technology. Her grants participation spans the areas of chronic kidney disease, technological innovation integration, and online learning.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: As there is exponential growth in the publication of interprofessional education (IPE) research studies, it has become more difficult to quickly find relevant papers and stay abreast of all the latest research. To address this, this poster presents the methods and results of a formal search hedge validation study that provides recommended search terms for IPE studies. Specifically, this poster addresses the development, evaluation, and validation of search hedges for IPE studies in PubMed, to improve future access to and synthesis of IPE research. The comprehensive, validated sets…