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Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians: Instructors

CAIFL 2025 Instructors

2025 CAIFL Steering Committee

Marie Ascher, MS, MPH
Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director
Phillip Capozzi, M.D. Library - New York Medical College

Marie is the Course Director for the Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians. She has been a teacher of evidence-based medicine for many years and is a former course director for EBM at New York Medical College. Marie also has a faculty appointment in the department of Epidemiology at NYMC. 

Deborah A. Crooke, MLIS, MPH
Associate Director, User Support, Education & Research Services
Phillip Capozzi, M.D. Library - New York Medical College

Deborah is an experienced EBM educator. She is an Assistant Professor and a Theme Director for EBE (EBM, Biostatistics & Epidemiology) in the School of Medicine at NYMC.

Amy Blevins, MALS
Associate Director for Public Services
Ruth Lilly Medical Library - Indiana University School of Medicine

Amy has devoted her career over the last 12 years to online instruction, instructional design, and evidence-based medicine. Since 2017, Amy has served as the Thread Director for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for IUSM.

Abraham Wheeler, MTS, MLIS
Health Sciences Librarian
Michigan State University Library

Since 2011, Abe has served as EBM and biostatistical content developer and instruction lead across the undergraduate medical education at Michigan State University. His expertise is in practical biostatistics, facilitating journal clubs, and critical appraisal of articles. He works longitudinally across the curriculum and has expanded to integrate biostatistics, EBM and public health concepts into a wide variety of conte

 

CAIFL 2025 Clinical Instructors

Terrence Shaneyfelt, MD, MPH, MET

Professor of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Terry.shaneyfelt@va.gov

Dr. Shaneyfelt, a practicing internist in both the inpatient and outpatient settings at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, became interested in EBM while attending the McMaster EBM course in 1999. His research, teaching and writing interests revolve around clinical practice guidelines, teaching EBM, and perioperative risk assessment and management. His is a known name in EBM due to his online presence at http://www.ebmteacher.com. He has helped students learn EBM and critical appraisal, and has won awards for teaching excellence. 

 

Andrew Coyle, MD

Associate Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin

Dr. Coyle is a faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine and the program director of our internal medicine residency. He is active in numerous professional societies, including the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (serving on the Program Planning Committee). He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and MedEdPORTAL. Prior to joining UW, Dr. Coyle was an associate program director at the internal medicine residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he oversaw its ambulatory care transformation, founded and co-directed the Department of Medicine's Medical Education Track, and was the course director for the medical school's longitudinal Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards and has been inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society.