Data Librarian for the Health Sciences Kaitlin Throgmorton, Research & Education Librarian for Bioinformatics Rolando Garcia-Milian, and Research & Education Librarian for Bioinformatics Sofia Fertuzinhos were awarded the 2024 Linda K. Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service. This prestigious award celebrates staff members who embody Yale’s spirit of leadership, innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Their work has strengthened Yale’s connection with the local community, promoted critical research, enhanced care quality and accessibility, established best practices, and created innovative pathways for learning and career development. The impact of their efforts can be felt across our campus and community, and in many cases, far beyond.
This team’s pioneering role in providing equitable bioinformatics and data support has been transformative, delivering successful training workshops, offering tailored consultations, fostering collaboration, and providing practical tools to researchers at all levels. The service model they created has made them indispensable partners in research, and their leadership in this area has garnered recognition beyond Yale.
Kaitlin, Rolando, and Sofia were nominated by Lucila Ohno-Machado, chair of the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science department, for providing training, consultation, collaboration, and tools that have bridged crucial gaps in bioinformatics and data support for researchers at Yale.