ChatJohn W. Cyrus
Research and Education Librarian
Assistant Professor
Tompkins-McCaw Library, Research and Education
(804) 828-1881
Tompkins-McCaw Library
cyrusjw@vcu.edu
M.S. in Library and Information Science, the Louisiana State University
M.A. in Writing and Rhetoric, Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. in English and History, Mary Washington College
As part of the Research and Education department at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, John Cyrus works with physicians and trainees in the VCU School of Medicine and at VCU Health to support research, learning and patient care. He also supports the International Programme in Addiction Studies, a partnership between VCU, King's College London, and the University of Adelaide that offers a fully online master's level program in addiction studies.
His scholarly interests include uncertainty in evidence-based practice and decision-making as well as evidence synthesis methods.
Before joining the faculty at VCU Libraries in 2012, he was a health sciences librarian at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana.