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Sarah Cantrell (she/her/hers) is the Associate Director for Research & Education at the Medical Center Library & Archives, and is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating the Library's research and education programs. She is also the liaison to the Graduate Medical Education programs. Sarah is currently on the steering committee of the Evidence-Based Practice for Health Sciences Librarians workshop, and co-director of the Evidence-Based Practice for the Medical Librarian course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. Sarah served as a Co-Director of Duke's national Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) workshop for clinicians and librarians from 2019 to 2024. Before joining Duke, she worked at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, where she established a Clinical Librarian Program and joined inpatient care teams for teaching rounds, providing real-time evidence-based decision support and teaching at the point of care. Prior to WRNMMC, she was the Education Services Coordinator and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Medical Center's Dahlgren Memorial Library in Washington, DC. 
  • MLIS, Library & Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison 
  • BA, English Literature, University of Wisconsin Madison 

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Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Psychiatric Conditions and Symptoms After Toxic Environmental Exposures During Military Service: An Evidence Map.

Journal Article Med Care · January 1, 2026 BACKGROUND: US service members are often exposed to a range of service-related hazards. To date, there has been limited synthesis of the existing research conducted on military environmental exposures and subsequent psychiatric conditions and symptoms. OBJ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing Critical Care Delivery Using National-Level ICU Registry Data.

Journal Article Critical care medicine · December 2025 ObjectiveThe specialty of critical care in the United States currently lacks a single, broad, unified database. We conducted a scoping review of existing established national ICU databases, describing national and international patterns of critica ... Full text Cite

Female Sex and Mortality in Patients With Gram-Negative Bacteremia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · November 3, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Female sex has been identified as a risk factor for mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SA-BSI). It is unknown whether this association extends to bloodstream infections with other bacterial species. OBJECTIVE: To investig ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Clinical Practice Guidelines on Perioperative Management of Heart Transplant Recipients

ResearchLibrary Assistant · Awarded by Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists · 2025 - 2026

Informing public policy support for family caregivers based on typologies of need

ResearchLibrary Assistant · Awarded by Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers · 2022 - 2024

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