Andrea Ketchum MLIS is the 2005 winner of the national Medical Library Association's Continuing Education Award. The MLA makes these awards to medical librarians who will use the funds "to develop their knowledge of theoretical, administrative, or technical aspects of librarianship."

Andrea M. Ketchum earned her MLIS with a concentration in medical librarianship in 2001, and completed the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Traineeship, a combined program of Health Sciences Library System and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, in 2002. She became a part-time Special Projects Librarian in the System in 2002, and joined the HSLS as a fulltime reference librarian in the Fall of 2003. She also now serves as a Liaison Librarian for the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Andrea also serves as Case Librarian for the problem-based learning module on Breast Cancer, required of all first-year medical students at Pitt. In 2004, she presented a poster at the national MLA meetings, entitled "Consumer Health Information Web Sites: the State of the Art. A snapshot analysis of Consumer Health web sites."