AMIA to Present Collen Award to Randolph Miller, M.D.
The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) will present the 2021 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence to Randolph A. Miller, M.D., emeritus professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University, at the American Medical Informatics Association meeting in San Diego.
The award, given annually in honor of Morris F. Collen, a thought leader in the field of medical informatics, is presented to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting impression on the field.
Miller, an academic general internist directly provided care to patients for a quarter century. After serving as the founding chief of the University of Pittsburgh’s Section of Medical Informatics, he became the founding chair of Vanderbilt University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. He conducted research implementing and evaluating clinical informatics and diagnostic expert systems, and explored ethical issues related to clinical informatics. He is recognized globally for large-scale knowledge base development, clinical decision support, guiding clinical institutional change, and shaping health information technology policy, AMIA said. Over the course of four decades, he has mentored students, clinicians, and medical informatics professionals and served as principal investigator on more than $30 million of extramurally sponsored grants and contracts and has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.
ACMI President Genevieve Melton-Meaux, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of surgery and health informatics and director of the Center for Learning Health System Sciences at the University of Minnesota as well as chief analytics and care innovation officer at Fairview Health Services. She said that Dr. Miller is known for a particular quote: “Clinical informatics is not a spectator sport.”
“He taught us that to best serve clinicians and patients, we need for information and data scientists to sit side by side with all members of the healthcare team to change the way we practice medicine,” Melton-Meaux said in a statement. “Randy’s legacy importantly includes the guidance and mentorship he has provided to many of the leaders we see in biomedical informatics today.”
