Kristine M. Alpi is Associate Dean of Libraries and Information Sciences and Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Data-Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.  Passionate about One Health, she served many years as a voluntary adjunct faculty member in Population Health & Pathobiology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Previous academic leadership positions include University Librarian and Associate Professor with a Joint Appointment in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University, Director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine of the NCSU Libraries, and Associate Library Director at the rank of Associate Librarian (and Lecturer in Public Health in the Department of Public Health) at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. 

Alpi holds a Masters of Library Science from Indiana University, a Masters of Public Health from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a PhD in Educational Research & Policy Analysis from NCSU.

A 1997-98 Associate Fellow of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Alpi served as an Educational Collaborator with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, steering committee member of the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, member of the NLM Planning Panel on Clinical & Public Health Information Systems for the 21st Century, and member of the NLM Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee Study Section from 2011-2015 where she continues as an ad-hoc reviewer and chairs Special Emphasis Panels. She chaired the Education Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2021 and 2022. A Distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Alpi taught in the Medical Library Association (MLA) Continuing Education program, previously chaired the Research Section and Public Health/Health Administration caucuses of MLA, served on the MLA Board of Directors from 2014-2016, and has mentored two MLA Rising Stars.  She served as President of MLA in 2021-22 was elected as a Fellow of MLA in 2021.  

My mentor Pat Gallagher shared our story in the 2021 MLA President's Page in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. 

Connect with me at meetings:

• Liberty Chapter, Medical Library Association, Fall 2025 TBD

• Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 19-22, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• European Association for Health Information and Libraries, June 8-12, 2026, Antalya, Türkiye 

Upcoming Presentations:

• None scheduled at this time.