At its 2018 Annual Symposium in San Francisco next month, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) will honor several informatics luminaries with its Signature and Leadership Awards.
AMIA Signature Awards
• Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics
J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Cerner Corp.
Overhage joined Cerner in 2015 with the Siemens Health Services acquisition. Prior to Cerner, he was the Director of Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and the Sam Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He helped create the Indiana Network for Patient Care, which contains data from laboratories, pharmacies and hospitals in central Indiana.
• Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contribution in Informatics
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, UCSF School of Medicine
Adler-Milstein is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR). She is an expert on policy and management issues related to the use of IT in healthcare delivery. Her research assesses the progress of health IT adoption; the impact of such adoption on healthcare costs and quality; and the relationships between market, organizational, and team structure and health IT use. A core focus of her work is on health information exchange and interoperability.
• William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics
George Hripcsak, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Hripcsak’s current research focus is on the clinical information stored in electronic health records and on the development of next-generation health record systems. Using nonlinear time series analysis, machine learning, knowledge engineering, and natural language processing, he is developing the methods necessary to support clinical research and patient safety initiatives. He leads the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) coordinating center; OHDSI is an international network with 180 researchers and 600 million patient records.
• Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award
Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Nursing Informatics, Westra’s research includes terminology development, application, and evaluation; knowledge discovery in databases; predictive analytics for outcomes; and evaluating and deriving new evidence based guidelines from EHR data.
• New Investigator Award
Jeremy Warner, MD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Warner directs the Vanderbilt Cancer Registry and Stem Cell Transplant Data Analysis Team. His primary research goal is to make sense of the structured and unstructured data present in EHRs and clinical knowledge bases to directly improve clinical care for patients, with a focus on oncology.
AMIA also announced the following Leadership Award winners:
Sarah A. Collins, PhD, RN: For leadership in developing and championing AMIA’s applied informatics recognition program (FAMIA).
Jeffrey A. Nielson, MD, MS, FACEP: For leadership in developing and championing AMIA’s applied informatics recognition program (FAMIA).
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MBA, MD, PhD: For steadfast leadership of JAMIA as editor-in-chief (2011-2018) and decades of commitment and service to AMIA.
