As Emerging Technologies Librarian for the Health Sciences, I work with social, semantic, and emerging technologies, identifying trends relevant to the educational, research, clinical and creative endeavors of the University of Michigan. I provide resources, tips, training, workshops, consultations, and collaboration, and more. 

I have an extremely high volume of email. If I do not reply, most likely I have not seen your message. The best way to reach me is via Twitter (@pfatech) or Bluesky (@pfanderson). For immediate assistance with general reference questions please contact Information Services (734-764-1210; thlibrary@umich.edu).

If you are interested in monthly updates and discussions, join the Cool Toys Conversations group. I am active in the #HCSM Health Care Social Media, and was on the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media External Advisory Board. In my ETechLib role, I am also a community manager for the UofM presence in Second Life (a 3d online virtual world), Wolverine Island. Many of my previous presentation slide sets are archived in Slideshare.

Current interests include health care & social media, artificial intelligence, graphic medicine, digital storytelling, games and gamification, 3d printing & biofabrication, makerspaces, medical humanities, microbiome, open hardware, personal genomics, participatory & precision medicine, e-patients, text mining, thematic analysis, and systematic reviews.