Jerry Perry, associate dean and director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, has been recognized as a Medical Library Association Fellow and selected to give the Janet Doe lecture at the 2019 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Perry has more than 30 years of experience as a health sciences librarian and served as president of the Medical Library Association in 2011-2012. His lecture will be published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. 

MLA Fellows are members who are elected by the Board of Directors for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. The Lectureship was established in 1966 in honor of Janet Doe, former librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine, historical scholar, past president of the association, and editor of the first two editions of the Medical Library Practice handbook.