AMIA Update

AMIA Announces Signature Award Winners
at 2015 Annual Symposium

AMIA is proud to announce this year’s Signature Award recipients. The AMIA Signature Awards program provides an opportunity for AMIA members at different stages of their career to be recognized for significant contributions to the field of informatics. The following leaders received their awards at the AMIA Annual Symposium, which took place November 14-18 in San Francisco:

• Jan H. van Bemmel, PhD, FACMI, a professor and chairman of medical informatics of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, received the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence.

• Paul A. Harris, PhD, FACMI, a professor of biomedical informatics and biomedical engineering, and director of the Office of Research Informatics at Vanderbilt University, received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics.

• John D. Halamka, MD, MS, FACMI, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, and cochair of the National Health Information Technology Standards Committee, received the Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics.

• Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FACMI, the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor in the School of Nursing and College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the Virginia K. Saba Award.

• W. Ed Hammond, PhD, FACMI, director at the Duke Center for Health Informatics, director of academic affairs for the Management Masters in Clinical Informatics Program, and professor emeritus in the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University; and director of applied informatics research for Duke Health Technology Solutions, received the William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics.

• Rong Xu, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics in the Institute of Computational Biology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, received the AMIA New Investigator Award.

"AMIA is proud to recognize these esteemed individuals," said AMIA Chair Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACMI, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “We congratulate them on their exceptional accomplishments and their commitment to AMIA’s mission."

The AMIA Annual Symposium draws 2,500 attendees for an event featuring 600-plus papers, panels, and posters.

— Source: AMIA