Mark your calendars for the 3rd Annual SMARTFest on Tuesday, February 23! SMARTFest provides WCM faculty, staff, and students a chance to learn more about ITS and Library services, view demos, and ask our tech experts questions on which services may help you with your research and office needs (
download our flyer). Last year, we hosted more than 600 attendees at SMARTFest!
In addition to tech help, join us for some food, giveaways, and our raffle! Plus, the first 50 attendees will receive a free Starbucks gift card, courtesy of our sponsor, ClinicalKey. Check out more details in the video below:
SMARTFest Location & Schedule
Samuel J. Wood Library
1300 York Avenue, Ground floor near main entrance
New York, NY
11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Will library services be affected?
During SMARTFest, there will be many activities going on throughout the library. Many meeting rooms will be unavailable, some spaces may be reconfigured, and there may be a higher level of traffic and noise. We appreciate your understanding during this event and ask you to plan accordingly.
How can I learn more?
It’s easy! Email its-communications@med.cornell.edu. We’d be happy to help you out.
Full List of SMARTFest Participants to Date
Platinum Sponsors
- DynaMed - DynaMed is a clinical information resource used by physicians to answer clinical questions quickly and easily at the point of care. It includes thousands of topics that provide clinicians and educators with the evidence-based information they need to make informed decisions. Topics are updated daily as new evidence becomes available.
- InfoEd – InfoEd is the basis of our new Weill Research Gateway, which is used as an online portal for WCM’s research administrative applications.
- McGraw-Hill Medical - McGraw-Hill Medical's website includes a number of resources for continuous education, such as federated search for Harrison's, CMDT, Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, and other references, access to saved content, quizzes, and more, custom curriculum, and responsive mobile design.
- The Cornell Store at Weill Cornell – Located at 1300 York in the library, The Cornell Store at Weill Cornell offers convenient shopping for WCM apparel, school supplies, gifts, rings, and more! It is also an authorized Apple campus store where you can get education pricing for Apple devices.
- Apple – We have an authorized Apple campus store in The Cornell Store where you can receive discounts on Macs, iPads, and other Apple accessories.
- UpToDate - UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. More than 6,000 world-renowned physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.
- VisualDX - VisualDx aids in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries. Engineered for use at the point of care, the VisualDx system allows physicians to search by diagnosis, build a patient-specific differential, or look up drug-induced adverse reactions by medication.
Gold Sponsors
- Citrix - Citrix builds mobile workspace solutions that give people new ways to work better with seamless and secure access to the apps, files and services they need on any device, wherever they go.
- HP - HP's vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe.
Silver Sponsors
- ClinicalKey - ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that helps physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals make better decisions anywhere, anytime, in any patient scenario.
- Thieme - Thieme is an award-winning international medical and science publisher serving health professionals and students for more than 125 years.
Bronze Sponsors
- BrowZine – BrowZine is a mobile app for tablets and smart phones that allows you to access and browse e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface.
- Faculty of 1000 – F1000 is a workspace for scientists to collect, write & discuss scientific literature. It is powered by a faculty of over 10,000 leading experts in biology and medicine.
- lynda.com - lynda.com is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Through individual, corporate, academic and government subscriptions, members have access to the lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.
- Rittenhouse - Rittenhouse Book Distributors Inc. provides libraries, retailers and other businesses with print and electronic books in the fields of medicine, nursing and allied health
- Unbound Medicine - Unbound Medicine solves healthcare knowledge problems by developing award-winning mobile and web products using an end-to-end digital publishing platform and information architecture expertise.
Demonstration Schedule
Check out these special demonstrations in the Library Collaboration Room throughout the event:
11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. - Apple: See the latest Apple products sold through the Cornell Store, our authorized Apple seller on campus.
12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. - McGraw-Hill Medical: AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge with essential information accessible anywhere. It provides medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, faculty, and practicing physicians with a variety of resources to facilitate decision-making, self-assessment, and point-of-care.
12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. - DynaMed: DynaMed is a clinical reference tool which provides fast, easy access to the latest evidence-based information. An indispensable resource for valid, relevant and convenient content, DynaMed includes clinically-organized summaries for thousands of topics.
12:55 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. - HP: Check out some of HP’s latest devices and how they can help you with your work at Weill Cornell Medicine.
1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. - Citrix: Learn about Citrix's services products and tools, as well as how they are used on campus.
1:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. - UpToDate/VisualDX: Learn about two mobile apps available to WCM faculty, staff, and students. UpToDate provides practical clinical reference, and contains the equivalent of 40,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text, while VisualDX aids in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries.
Raffle Prizes
WCM faculty, staff, and students are eligible to receive one of the following prizes:
- Encrypted USB drives from the Cornell Store
- Harrison’s, 19th Edition donated by McGraw-Hill Medical
- Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12th Edition, donated by McGraw-Hill Medical
- The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 3rd Edition, donated by McGraw-Hill Medical
- Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2016, donated by McGraw-Hill Medical
- Citrix X1 Computer Mice compatible with iPhones and iPads, donated by Citrix
- Two HP Inkjet Printers, donated by HP
- Sony Wireless RF Headphones
- Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
- Two Kindle Fires, donated by InfoEd Global
- FitBit Flex Wristbands
- HP 640 Laptop
You must be present to win and have your WCM ID in order to claim a prize. One prize per person.