G. Randall Watts, MDiv, MS, AHIP, associate director and associate professor in the Health Sciences Library at UTHSC, has been selected as a 2018-2019 Fellow in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program.
In this highly competitive program, Watts will be one of 10 Fellows and mentors from academic health sciences libraries across the United States, who will begin their work together in November. Since the program began in 2002, 54 percent of all Fellow graduates have assumed director positions.
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, the program prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries through mentorship and a leadership curriculum focused on developing leadership knowledge critical to enhancing the value of libraries in their institutions.