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Virginia M. Tanji

Chief Librarian
Information Specialist

University of Hawaii School of Medicine Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

tanji@hawaii.edu

Virginia M. Tanji is a Librarian at the Library Resource Center, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), Honolulu, Hawaii. Ginny has a BA in literature from the UHM, an MSLS from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an MEd from UHM. She has worked in health sciences libraries since 1976. She is a senior member of the American Academy of Health Information Professionals. Ginny got her start in health sciences libraries at the Dana Medical Library in Burlington, Vermont.

Currently in addition, to traditional library responsibilities in public health as well as medicine, she maintains the library's website (http://www.hawaii.edu/sphlib) as well as a public health website (http://hml.org/hiphive/) and teaches hands-on workshops on searching databases such as MEDLINE, and effective searching of the WEB for retrieving health information. She has even conducted MEDLINE and Internet workshops for physicians and other health professionals on each major island in Hawaii as well as distant Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her passion is teaching students and faculty to fully exploit print and electronic resources available to them.

Ginny’s an avid practitioner of tai chi, qi gong and meditation as a way of keeping a sound body and mind. She has a strong interest in meditation/qi gong/tai chi as a form of complementary medicine and is fascinated by the often overlooked mind-body connection for health maintenance.

Articles by Virginia M. Tanji in Dermanities

Articles by Virginia M. Tanji in Pubmed