Barbara Pralle[email protected]
Kate Ugarte(410) 735-6781[email protected]
Linda Klouzal410-735-6784[email protected]
Andrew Harrison(410) 735-6788[email protected]
Terri Hatfield410-735-6780[email protected]
Timothy Wisniewski410-735-6786[email protected]
Eileen P.G. Vining, M.D.
Diane Abeloff
Elizabeth M. Peterson
Pedro Purcell, M.D.
Ann Skinner
Jerriann Myers Wilson
Chris Ponticas
Louise Cavagnaro, R.N.; M.S.
Lee M. Howard, M.D.
Francis Milligan, M.D.
Catherine Neill, M.D.
Betty Scher, R.N.
Barbara Pralle is the Associate Director for Content & Discovery at Welch Medical Library. She oversees the Collection and User Services departments including Acquisitions, Cataloging, Collection Development, ILL/Document Delivery, and Access Services.
Ms. Pralle began at Johns Hopkins in 2007 as Head of the Entrepreneurial Library Program in the Sheridan Libraries, where she led development of new services, managed service scaling, and led operations streamlining initiatives. She assumed her current role in 2021. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she worked for a decade in scientific publishing and information services.
Ms. Pralle received her bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, and M.B.A from the University of Chicago. She also is a PMI certified Project Management Professional, and completed Green Belt certification with the John Hopkins Lean Six Sigma Fellowship Program.
Terri Hatfield is the Reference Archivist at the Chesney Archives. She is responsible for assisting patrons with their reference requests and facilitating access and use of our archival collections. She also helps promote our collections through outreach and engagement with students and faculty.
Terri has a BS in Psychology and an AB in Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia, an MLIS from Valdosta State University, and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Georgia. She has previously served as Program Coordinator for the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia and as a guest curator and intern at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries.
Terri is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS), and Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC). She currently serves as a member of the Issues & Advocacy Steering Committee for SAA.
Kate Ugarte is the Administrative Manager of the Chesney Archives. She manages all budgetary processes, assists in the development and implementation of archives policies and procedures, and administers human resources policies, programs, and practices. Kate serves as the Secretary to the Privacy Board of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and serves on the archives’ website management team.
Kate has a BA from Wellesley College. Her past positions include Administrative Office Manager for Korn/Ferry International in Boston, Office Manager for Oberon Software in Cambridge, and as Retail Manager for Jones Family Farms in Shelton, Connecticut.
Linda Klouzal is the Institutional Records Archivist at the Chesney Archives. She oversees the archival description, preservation, and digitization of the institutional records of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. She works on the archives team documenting Johns Hopkins in the media, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Linda has a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an MLIS from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She previously served as the Project Archivist at MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society.
Linda is a member of the Society of American Archivists, and Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences.
Andy Harrison is the Cultural Properties Archivist and Reference Coordinator at the Chesney Archives. He is responsible for overseeing incoming reference requests, coordinating student assistants working reference services, and assigning incoming requests. With the Curator for Cultural Properties, he manages the art and artifacts collections. These duties include exhibition, conservation, cataloguing, and storage of the collections. He also serves as one of the administrators for the Chesney Archives’ archival management system.
Andy has a BS from Ball State University and an MS with a certificate in museum studies from the University of South Carolina. His past positions include Assistant Archivist at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, Reference Archivist at the South Carolina State Archives, Archival Assistant at McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and summer intern at the Indiana Historical Society. He has served as an archival consultant for the Jewish Museum of Maryland and a Pennsylvania historical society.
Andy is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. He also serves as a member of the Collections Committee of the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
Tim Wisniewski is the Visual Materials Archivist for the Chesney Archives. He manages analog and digital photograph and audiovisual collections, including their processing, cataloging, and digitization. He also handles reference and permission requests related to the photograph and audiovisual collections. Tim preserves web content such as institutional websites, online videos, and podcasts, and serves on the archives’ website management team.
Tim has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. His past positions include Preservation Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh Library Service Center and intern processing film collections at the Bulgarian-Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. He has also previously worked as a photographic darkroom technician and a hospital film librarian.
Tim is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.
Diane Abeloff volunteers at the Chesney Archives identifying and cataloguing illustrations from the Leon Schlossberg collection. She has also processed artwork appearing in publications and presentations of surgeon Patrick Walsh. She has also been organizing sketches and finished work by medical illustrator James Didusch and transcribing diaries written by William H. Welch.
Diane received a Master of Art as Applied to Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and was Assistant to the Director of the Department of Art As Applied to Medicine from 1967 to 1968. She had been a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators for many years. Currently, she is a member of the Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle.
Elizabeth Peterson volunteers at the Chesney Archives assisting with the processing and description of personal paper collections, including researching and writing biographical notes. She has done transcription work with the diaries of William Welch and the letters of Mr. Johns Hopkins. Her previous projects included helping to process and describe the Howard Kelly personal paper collection, including abstracting his diaries.
Elizabeth has a BA from Towson University and an MAS (Master of Administration Science) from Johns Hopkins University. She was Clinical Practice Manager and Consultant at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1975 to 1997.
Chris Ponticas volunteered with the Chesney Archives, helping to process and describe materials that were added to the W. Horsley Gantt personal papers collection. She completed transcription work with the diaries of Gantt, William MacCallum and William Welch. Other projects included helping to process the personal papers of four presidents of the Johns Hopkins Hospital: Henry Hurd, Winford Smith, Edwin Crosby, and Russell Nelson.
Chris spent her career at The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1969 to 1999, where she was the Medical Staff Registrar and then Director of Medical Staff Administration. She also served as Secretary for the Medical Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and was Vice President of Broadway Medical Management for Johns Hopkins Medicine Credentials Verification Organization.
Pedro Purcell volunteers at the Chesney Archives helping to identify medical illustrations from the Leon Schlossberg personal papers collection. He also helps to process the Richard Bing personal papers collection.
Pedro has an MD from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and completed his residency in radiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He had a private diagnostic radiology practice in Baltimore. Purcell is a member of MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society and the Baltimore Medical Society.
Ann Skinner volunteers with the Chesney Archives, helping to process, describe, and index materials that have been added to the Adolf Meyer personal papers collection. She also helps transcribe diaries written by William H. Welch during his visits to China and Japan in the early twentieth century.
Ann currently serves as Senior Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is a member of the Center for Health Services Outcomes Research (formerly the Health Services Research and Development Center, where she began her Johns Hopkins career). Her areas of expertise include survey research on health and mental health services access and outcomes. Since 1999, she has been a member of the School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), and continues in that role. She also works for the IRB as an alternate chair, and for the school’s doctorate program as an IRB consultant. Ann serves on the Privacy Board of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Ann has a BA and an MSW, both from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jerriann Myers Wilson volunteers at the Chesney Archives helping to identify people, locations, and dates in the photograph collections and inputting this information into the catalog.
Jerriann is the former director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Child Life Department, serving in that role from 1972 to 2005. During this time, she served as an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Before this she was the founder and director of the Child Life Program at the Baltimore City Hospitals.
Jerriann has a BA from Goucher College and an M.Ed from Loyola University Maryland. She is a member of the Association of Child Life Professionals.