Selected Professional Activities
Renner, Barbara. "Mixing up an Allied Heath Liaison Program: Ingredients for a Successful Allied Health Collection Appetizer." Paper presented at the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, October, 2007.
Renner, Barbara R., Vardaman, Adam S., Norton, Melanie J. (2007) "Best Practices for Medical Libraries to Deliver Materials to Distance Learners." Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & E-Reserve, 17 (3), 85-97.
Renner, Barbara R., Norton, Melanie J. "Medical Libraries Delivering Materials to Distance Learners." Poster presentation at 2006 SC/MLA and MAC/MLA joint meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 12-16, 2006.
Shaw-Kokot, Julia, Renner, Barbara, Haney, Lee, Payne, Carol. "Meeting User Expectations for Electronic Reserves." Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, May 20, 2002.
Renner, Barbara. "Library Support of Distance Education: Issues and Challenges." Invited Presentation, Duke University Library Assembly Program, "Long Distance Relationships: Library Services for Off Campus Programs," Duke University, Durham, NC, March 21, 2002.
Renner, Barbara, Shaw-Kokot, Julia. "Only a Click Away: Library Support for Distance Education." Presentation to the North Carolina Community Colleges Learning Resources Association Annual Conference, 2001, Raleigh, NC, March 15.
DeVellis, RF, Patterson, CC, Blalock, SJ, Renner, BR, DeVellis, BM. (1997) Do people with RA develop illness-related schemas?, Arthritis Care and Research, 10, 78-88.
Granger, NA, Renner, BR. (1996) Applicant Pool for Emergency Medicine Residencies, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 27 (3), 363-364.
McGaghie, WC, Renner, BR, Kowlowitz, V, Sauter, SVH, Hoole, AJ, Schuch, CP, Misch, MS. (1994) Development and Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Performance Measures for an Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 6 (1), 59-63.
McGaghie, WC, Kowlowitz, V, Renner, BR, Sauter, SVH, Hoole, AJ, Schuch, CP, Misch, MS. (1993) A Randomized Trial of Physicians and Physical Therapists as Instructors of the Musculoskeletal Examination, The Journal of Rheumatology, 20 (6), 1027-1032).
DeVellis, RF, Blalock, SJ, Holt, KD, Renner, BR, Blanchard, LW, Klotz, ML. (1991) Arthritis Patients' Reactions to Unavoidable Social Comparisons, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17 (4), 392-399.
Renner, BR, DeVellis, BM, Ennett, ST, Friedman, CP, Hoyle, RH, Crowell, WM, Winfield, JB. (1990) Clinical Rheumatology Training of Primary Care Physicians: The Resident Perspective, The Journal of Rheumatology, 17 (5), 667-672.
DeVellis, RF, Holt, K, Renner BR, Blalock, SJ, Blanchard, LW, Cook, HL, Klotz, ML, Mikow, V, Harring, K. (1990) The Relationship of Social Comparison to Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms and Affect, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 11 (1), 1-18.
Schopler, E, Reichler, R, Renner, BR. (1988) The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS). Los Angeles, California: Western Psychological Services (previously published as Schopler, E, Reichler, R, Renner, BR. (1986) The Childhood Autism Rating Scale. Irvington, New York: Irvington Press).
Renner, BR, Ball, D. (1983) The Effects of Unequal Covariances on the Tukey WSD Test. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 43 (1), 27-34.
Brief Bio
Barbara's professional interests and areas of expertise include education of professionals in medicine and the health sciences, curriculum development, distance learning, program evaluation, and the use of emerging technologies in teaching and learning. Barbara has worked in a variety of positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since moving here in 1981. In addition to her current special assignment as Library Liaison to the Department of Allied Health Sciences, Barbara serves as Library Services Evaluation Specialist. Prior to these special assignments, she served as Distance Learning Specialist for UNC-Chapel Hill's libraries and was a member of the campus-wide Distance Education Policy Steering Committee. During her more than 25 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Barbara has also worked in with the state-wide autism program, TEACCH and in the School of Medicine's Rehabilitation Program Office (prior to the development of the current Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation). She was a faculty member in the School of Medicine's Department of Medicine, participating in research at the NIH-funded Thurston Arthritis Research Center (then, the Multipurpose Arthritis Center). She also served as Director, Division of Student Affairs, in the Office of the Dean of the Medical School and in the Office of Community Medical Education, where she co-directed the Medical Practice and the Community course and served as course faculty for the Ambulatory Care Selective and for a 4th year medical student elective.
Education
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
BSEd, MEd, Speech Pathology and Audiology
PhD, Educational Research and Evaluation Methodology
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