Rebecca Carlson, MLS, AHIP: Pharmacy Librarian

Rebecca Carlson, MLS, AHIP is Health Sciences Librarian and Liaison to the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is also an Adjunct Instructor at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy. 

Rebecca is the primary provider of library support for Pharmacy at UNC, and is responsible for collaborating with faculty to design and provide curriculum-integrated instruction; participating in new program planning, accreditation processes, and the scholarship of teaching and learning; collaborating on research and scholarly communication endeavors; providing expert literature searching services; and engaging in other partnerships for pharmacy teaching, clinical care, research, and administrative purposes.

Rebecca has her Master of Science in Library Science degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a senior member of the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals. Before joining UNC, she was the Director of the Nursing and Health Sciences Library at Southwest Baptist University. Her undergraduate degree is in English and Education from Concordia University-Portland. 

Rebecca's research interests include technologies and improvements in systematic review and literature searching methods; interprofessional education and practice; and embedded librarianship in clinical and didactic education. 

Cao, B., Robinson, J. E., Winget, M., Hunt, M. H., Carlson, R., Hogan, S. L., Derebail, V. K., & Thorpe, C. T. (2024). Infection prophylaxis among patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (Anca) vasculitis: A scoping review. Clinical Rheumatology, 43(9), 2765–2781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-024-07074-4

Carlson, R., Nachman, S., Zerden, L., & Mani, N. (2024). Validation of an interprofessional education search strategy in PubMed to optimize IPE literature searching. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 112(1), 33–41. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1742

Carter, G., McGlothlin, S., McLaurin-Jiang, S., Carlson, R. B., O’Grady, K. E., & Jones, H. E. (2024). The effects of prenatal exposure to opioids on early childhood development: Context matters most. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 25(8), 1083–1094. https://doi.org/10.1080/14656566.2024.2365331

Isaac, S., Phillips, M. R., Chen, K. A., Carlson, R., Greenberg, C. C., & Khairat, S. (2024). Usability, acceptability, and implementation of artificial intelligence (Ai) and machine learning (Ml) techniques in surgical coaching and training: A scoping review. Journal of Surgical Education, S193172042400165X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.03.018

Kong, W. Y., Oh, N. L., Kennedy, K. L., Carlson, R. B., Liu, A., Ozawa, S., Brewer, N. T., & Gilkey, M. B. (2024). Identifying healthcare professionals with lower human papillomavirus (Hpv) vaccine recommendation quality: A systematic review. Journal of Adolescent Health, 74(5), 868–877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.11.016

Marx, A. H., Nowicki, D. N., Carlson, R. B., Schultz, K. M., Sickbert-Bennett, E., & Weber, D. J. (2024). Bacille Calmette-Guérin preparation and intravesical administration to patients with bladder cancer: Risks to healthcare personnel and patients, and mitigation strategies. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 45(4), 520–525. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.259

McKeithen, M. C., Gilkey, M. B., Kong, W. Y., Oh, N. L., Heisler-MacKinnon, J., Carlson, R., James, G., & Grabert, B. K. (2024). Policy approaches for increasing adolescent hpv vaccination coverage: A systematic review. Pediatrics, 153(5), e2023064692. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-064692

Reid, T. D., Crespo Regalado, R., Carlson, R., Schneider, A., Boone, J. S., Hockran, S., Butler, L. R., Perez, D. L., Holloway, A. D., Nguyen, P. G., Gallaher, J., Charles, A. G., & Raff, L. (2023). Outcomes in obese adult veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A systematic review. ASAIO Journal. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000002068

Vest, T. A., Gazda, N. P., O’Neil, D. P., Donnowitz, K., Carlson, Mls, Ahip, R., & Eckel, S. F. (2024). Practice-enhancing publications about the medication-use process in 2022. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 81(19), e601–e610. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxae125

Nurczyk, K., Nowak, N., Carlson, R., Skoczylas, T., & Wallner, G. (2023). Pre-therapeutic molecular biomarkers of pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in gastric and esophago-gastric junction adenocarcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Advances in Medical Sciences, 68(1), 138–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advms.2023.02.005

Ozawa, S., Laing, S. K., Higgins, C. R., Yemeke, T. T., Park, C. C., Carlson, R., Ko, Y. E., Guterman, L. B., & Omer, S. B. (2022). Educational and economic returns to cognitive ability in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. World Development, 149, 105668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105668

Shen, E. C., Srinivasan, S., Passero, L. E., Allen, C. G., Dixon, M., Foss, K., Halliburton, B., Milko, L. V., Smit, A. K., Carlson, R., & Roberts, M. C. (2022). Barriers and facilitators for population genetic screening in healthy populations: A systematic review. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 865384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.865384

Merlo, A., Carlson, R., Espey, J., Williams, B. M., Balakrishnan, P., Chen, S., Dawson, L., Johnson, D., Brickey, J., Pompili, C., & Mody, G. N. (2022). Postoperative symptom burden in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 64(3), 254–267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.05.016

Alishahi Tabriz, A., Turner, K., Clary, A., Hong, Y.-R., Nguyen, O. T., Wei, G., Carlson, R. B., & Birken, S. A. (2022). De-implementing low-value care in cancer care delivery: A systematic review. Implementation Science, 17(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-022-01197-5

Jones, E. P., Mani, N. S., Carlson, R. B., Welker, C. G., Cawley, M., & Yu, F. (2022). Analysis of anti-racism, equity, inclusion and social justice initiatives in library and information science literature. Reference Services Review, 50(1), 81–101. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-07-2021-0032

Jones, E. P., Nelson, N. R., Thorpe, C. T., Rodgers, P. T., & Carlson, R. B. (2022). Use of journal clubs and book clubs in pharmacy education: A scoping review. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 14(1), 110–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2021.11.029

Niznik, J. D., Collins, B. J., Armistead, L. T., Larson, C. K., Kelley, C. J., Hughes, T. D., Sanders, K. A., Carlson, R., & Ferreri, S. P. (2022). Pharmacist interventions to deprescribe opioids and benzodiazepines in older adults: A rapid review. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 18(6), 2913–2921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.07.012

Reid, T. D., Kratzke, I. M., Dayal, D., Raff, L., Serrano, P., Kumar, A., Zendel, A., Herdman, V., Gallaher, J., Carlson, R., Charles, A. G., & Desai, C. S. (2022). The role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adult liver transplant patients: A qualitative systematic review of literature. Artificial Organs, 46(4), 578–596. https://doi.org/10.1111/aor.14120

Shen, M. R., Tzioumis, E., Andersen, E., Wouk, K., McCall, R., Li, W., Girdler, S., & Malloy, E. (2022). Impact of mentoring on academic career success for women in medicine: A systematic review. Academic Medicine, 97(3), 444–458. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000004563