• Signature Awards
• Annual Symposium Awards
• Working Group Awards
• Other AMIA Recognition Awards
• Past Awards (no longer issued)

Signature Awards

AMIA New Investigator Award

This award recognizes an individual for early informatics contributions and significant scholarly contributions on the basis of scientific merit and research excellence.

2010 - Adam Wright

2009 - Trent Rosenbloom

2008 - Atul J. Butte

2007 - David A. Dorr

2005 - Mor Peleg

2006 - Mia K. Markey

Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award

This award recognizes a distinguished career with significant impact permeating the care of patients and the discipline of nursing.

2010 - Judy G. Ozbolt

2009 - Connie Delaney

2008 - Elizabeth (Betsy) Weiner

2007 - Sue Grobe

2006 - Suzanne Bakken

2005 - Virginia K. Saba

Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics

This award will recognize an individual that has made a significant singular contribution or series of contributions over the course of a career exemplifying the expertise, passion, and spirit that Dr. Detmer has for health policy.

2010 - David W. Bates

2009 - Paul Tang

2008 - Don Detmer

Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics

This award recognizes an individual at any stage of a career for a specific technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics.

2010 - Carol Friedman

2009 - Zak Kohane

2008 - William R. Hersh

2007 - Randolph A. Miller

2006 - Mark A. Musen

2005 - William W. Stead

Morris F. Collen Award

In honor of Morris F. Collen, a pioneer in the field of medical informatics, this prestigious award is presented by the American College of Medical Informatics of Informatics to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting impression on the field.

Annual Symposium Awards

Distinguished Poster Award

Distinguished posters are selected from a slate of candidate posters recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Poster Committee and the AMIA Awards Committee during the poster sessions at the AMIA Annual Symposium.

2008

Learning Pathogenic Proteins AcrossFractured and Heterogenous Data
Eithon Cadag, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, Peter Myler, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Medical Exceptions to Decision Support: A Tool to Identify Provider Misconceptions and Direct Academic Detailing
Stephen Persell, Nancy Dolan, David Baker, Northwestern University

Detecting Workflow Changes After a CPOE Implementation: A Sequential Pattern Analysis Approach
David Hanauer, Kai Zheng, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Computerized Surveillance for Adverse Drug Events in a Pediatric Hospital
Peter Kilbridge, Laura Noirota, Richard Reichley, Kevin Heard, Claiborne Dunagan, Thomas Bailey, Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, MO

Alerting Strategies in Computerized Physician Order Entry: A Novel Use of a Dashboard-style Analytics Tool in a Children's Hospital
George Reynolds, Dean Boyer, Kevin Mackey, Lynne Povondra, Allana Cummings, Children's Hospital, Omaha, NE

The Design of a Pre-Encounter Clinical Trial Screening Tool: ASAP
Jing Ding, Selnur Erdal, Tara Borlawsky, Jianhua Liu, Deanna Golden-Kreutz, Jyoti Kamal, Philip Payne, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH

2007

Assessing Effects of the e-Chasqui Laboratory Information System on Accuracy and Timeliness of Bacteriology Test Results in the National Tuberculosis Program in Peru
J. Blaya, Partners in Health

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Wireless Electronic Tracking Devices Versus Traditional Paper Systems to Track Victims in a Large Scale Disaster Drill
C. Buono, University of California, San Diego

Patient Review of Selected Electionic Health Record Data Improves Visit Experience
A. Businger, Partners Healthcare System

Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of H5N1 and SARS-CoV
A. Hill, University of Colorado

Real-time Demand Forecasting in the Emergency Department
S. Jones, University of Utah

Designing CPOE Systems Using an Ecological Approach
C. Lin, University of Washington

Natural Language Processing to Identify Venous Thromboembolic Events
R. Reichley, BJC Healthcare

Feasibility of Linking External Valuation Sources to Bedside-Caregiver Activities in Interdisciplinary Patient Care Standards
J. Washburn, Intermountain Healthcare

2006

User Interface Considerations for Collecting Data at the Point of Care in the Tablet PC Computing Environment
Garry Silvey, Duke University Medical Center

Errors in the Emergency Department: The Epidemiology of Medication Prescribing
Dominik Aronsky, Vanderbilt University, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Evaluating the Safety and Efficiency of a CPOE System for Continuous Medication Infusions in a Pediatric ICU
Azizeh Sowan, University of Maryland

Prospective Evaluation of a Bayesian Network for Detecting Asthma Exacerbations in a Pediatric Emergency Department
David Sanders, Vanderbilt University, Department of Biomedical Informatics

GODSN: Global News Driven Disease Outbreak and Surveillance
Sharib Khan, Columbia University

Comparison of Alcohol Abusers Who Seek Traditional Treatment Versus Those Who Use An Online Program
Suena Huang, George Washington University Hospital

Integrating Genetic Information Resources with an EHR
Guilherme Del Fiol, Intermountain Healthcare

Reengineering Real Time Outbreak Detection Systems for Influenza Epidemic Monitoring
John Brownstein, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

2005

Unit-wide Notification of Ventilator Disconnections
R. Scott Evans, LDS Hospital/Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT

Intervention to Improve Dyslipidemia Screening in Hospitalized Diabetics
Richard M. Reichley, BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, MO

Improving Override Rates for Computerized Prescribing Alerts in Ambulatory Care
Nidhi R. Shah, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Using Computerized Physician Order Entry to Decrease Insurance Denials
Alan M. Weiss, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

Distinguished Paper Award

Distinguished papers are selected from a slate of candidate papers recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee and forwarded to the AMIA Awards Committee who nominated the finalist papers.

2008
Optimizing Feature Representation for Automated Systematic Review Work Prioritization
Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health & Science University

The CHICA Smoking Cessation System
Stephen Downs, Vivienne Zhu, Vibha Anand, Paul Biondich, Aaron Carroll, Indiana University, Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN

Web Screening of U.S. Nursing Homes by Location and Quality
Glenn Pearson, Michael Gill, George Thoma, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

A Rapid Assessment Process for Clinical Informatics Interventions
Joan Ash, Dean Sittig, Carmit McMullen, Kenneth Guappone, Richard Dykstra, James Carpenter, Oregon Health & Science University, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Providence Portland Medical Center

Extracting Structured Medication Event Information from Discharge Summaries
Sigfried Gold, Noémie Elhadad, Xinxin Zhu, James Cimino, George Hripcsak, Columbia University

2007
Using the Literature-based Discovery Paradigm to Investigate Drug Mechanisms
C. Ahlers, H. Kilicoglu, D. Hristovski, T. Rindflesch

Network Analysis of Toxic Chemicals and Symptoms:
Implications for Designing First-responder Systems
S. Bhavnani, A. Abraham, C. Demeniuk, R. Richardson, G. Valabha

A Rationale for Parsimonious Laboratory Term Mapping by Frequency
D. Vreeman, J. Finnell, J. Overhage

2006
Infodemiology: Tracking Flu-Related Searches on the Web for Syndromic Surveillance
Gunther Eysenbach, University of Toronto & University Health Network, Toronto, Quebec, Canada.

A Novel Method for the Efficient Retrieval of Similar Multiparameter Physiologic Time Series Using Wavelet-Based Symbolic Representations
Mohammed Saeed, Philips Medical Systems, Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Improving the Sensitivity of the Problem List in an Intensive Care Unit by Using Natural Language Processing
Stephane Meystre, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ontology-Based Representation of Stimulation Models of Physiology
Daniel Rubin, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Barriers to Electronic Health Record Use during Patient Visits
Jeffrey Linder, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

2005
Data Quality in the Outpatient Setting: Impact on Clinical Decision Support Systems
Eta S. Berner, Ramkumar K. Kasiraman, Feliciano Yu, Midge N. Ray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; and Thomas K. Houston, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL

Deriving the Expected Utility of a Predictive Model When the Utilities are Uncertain
Gregory F. Cooper, and Shyam Visweswaran, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Two Dl-based Methods for Auditing Medical Terminological Systems
Ronald Cornet, Academic Medical Center, Dept of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Ameen Abu-Hanna, Academic Medical Centre, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Early Detection of Rotavirus Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreaks by Multiple Data Sources and Detection Algorithms at a Pediatric Health System
James E. Levin, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, Saint Paul, MN; and Sivakumaran Raman, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Roseville, MN

Mapping Cancer Patients’ Symptoms to UMLS Concepts
Laura A. Slaughter, Cornelia M. Ruland, and AnnKristin Rotegård, Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Oslo, Norway

Ontodiagram: Automatic Diagram Generation for Congenital Heart Defects in Pediatric Cardiology
Katik Vishwanath, Venkatesh Viswanath, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; William Drake, Section of Cardiology, The Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO; and Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO

Best Paper - Theoretical

In recognition of the paper that best represents an advance in the theoretical foundations of medical informatics research.

2003
Classifying Instantaneous Cognitive States from fMRI Data
Tom M. Mitchell, R. Hutchinson, M.A. Just, R. S. Niculescu, F. Pereira, and X. Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2002
Exploring the Boundaries of Plausibility: Empirical Study of a Key Problem in the Design of Computer-based Clinical Simulations
Charles P. Friedman, PhD, G.G. Gatti, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, G.C. Murphy, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC, T.M. Franz, PhD, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, P.L. Fine, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, P.S. Heckerling, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

2001
In recognition of the paper that best represents an advance in the theoretical foundations of medical informatics research.

A Virtual Medical Record for Guideline-based Decision Support
Peter D. Johnson, MBBS

2000
Boosting Naïve Bayesian Learning on a Large Subset of MEDLINE
W. Wilbur, MD, PhD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

1999
Nuala Beennett, MS, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana

1998
An Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Methodologies (p. 855)
Carol Friedman, George Hripcsak, and Irina Shablinsky

1995
An Architecture for a Distributed Guideline Server
M. Barnes, MD, and G.O. Barnett, MD, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

1994
(two recipients)
Development and Evaluation of a Computer-Assisted Management Protocol (CAMP): Improved Compliance with Care Guidelines for Diabetes Mellitus (pp 787)
D.P. Lobach, MD, PhD, MS, and W. E. Hammond, PhD, Division of Medical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.

The Use and Impact of a Computer-based Support System for People Living with AIDS and HIV Infection
David H. Gustafson, PhD

1993
Words or Concepts: the Features of Indexing Units and their Optimal Use in Information Retrieval
Y. Yang, PhD, and C.G. Chute, PhD
Section of Medical Information Resources, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, MN

Best Paper - Application

In recognition of the paper that best describes an application of medical informatics in health care or biomedical research

2003
A Cognitive Framework for Understanding Barriers to the Productive Use of a Diabetes Home Telemedicine System
David R. Kaufman, J. Starren, and V.L. Patel, Columbia University, New York, NY, P.C. Morin, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, C. Hillman, and J. Pevzner, Columbia University, New York, NY, R.S. Weinstock, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, R. Goland and S. Shea, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2002
The Sublanguage of Cross-coverage.
Peter D. Stetson, MD, S.B. Johnson, PhD, M. Scotch, G. Hripcsak, MD, MS, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

2001
Development of Visual Diagnostic Expertise in Pathology
Rebecca S. Crowley, MD

2000
ActiveGuidelines: Integrating Web-based Guidelines with Computer-based Patient Records
P.C. Tang, MD, and C.Y. Young, PhD, Epic Research Institute, Mountain View, CA.

1999
Nick S. Booth, MD, University of Newcastle and Primary Healthcare Development Center, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

1998
Improving Patient Outcomes by Including Patient Preferences in Nursing Care (p.448)
Cornelia M. Ruland, PhD, RN

1995
Creating Temporal Abstractions in Three Clinical Information Systems
M.G. Kahn, MD, PhD, and K.A. Marrs, MS, Section of Medical Informatics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

1994
An Application of Expert Network to Clinical Classification and MEDLINE Indexing
Y. Yang, PhD, C.G. Chute, PhD, Section of Medical Information Resources, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, MN

1993
Clinical Performance of a Rule-Based Decision Support System for Mechanical Ventilation of ARDS Patients
G.E. Thomsen, PhD, D. Pope, T.D. East, A.H. Morris, A.T. Kinder, D.A. Carlson, G.L. Smith, C.J. Wallace, J.F. Orme, Jr., T.P. Clemmer, L.K. Weaver, F. Thomas, and N.C. Dean, Pulmonary Divisions of the Departments of Internal Medicine, LDS Hospital and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Working Group Awards

Nursing Informatics Working Group Award

In recognition of a student who demonstrates excellence in nursing informatics and who has the potential to contribute significantly to the discipline of nursing and health informatics.

2008
Not awarded
 

2005
Predicting the Likelihood of Falls Among the Elderly Using Likelihood Basis Pursuit Technique
Kanittha Volrathongchai, School of Nursing Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

2001
Mediating Between Nursing Intervention Terminology Systems
Nicholas R. Hardiker

Diana Forsythe Award

In recognition of research that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe's work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences. The Diana E. Forsythe Award winner is chosen by the AMIA People and Organizational Issues Working Group, co-chaired by Cynthia Gadd, PhD, and Annette L. Valenta, DrPH.

2008
Telemedicine in the Upper Amazon: Interplay with Local Health Care Practices

2007
The Work to Make Telemedicine Work: A Social and Articulative View
David Nicolini

2006
Physicians, Patients, and the Electronic Health Record: An Ethnographic Analysis.
Ventres, William, Kooienga, Sarah, Vuckovic, Marlin, Ryan, Nygren, Peggy, and Stewart, Valerie.

2005
An Ontology of Geo-Reasoning to Support Medical Response to Attacks with Weapons of Mass Destruction
David Kirsh, PhD, Nicole Peterson, Leslie A. Lenert, MD, MS.

Mother Knows Best: Medical Record Management for Patients with Spina Bifida During Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
Carston S. Østerlund, MA, PhD, Nienke P. Dosa, MD, MPH, and Catherine Arnott Smith, MA, MSIS, PhD.

2003
IT, Gender, and Professional Practice: Or, Why an Automated Drug Distribution System Was Sent Back to the Manufacturer
Joel Novek

2002
Asking Questions: Information Needs in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit
M.C. Reddy, MS, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, W. Pratt, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, P. Dourish, PhD, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, and M.M. Shabot, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

2001
Resisting and Promoting New Technologies in Clinical Practice: The Case of Telepsychiatry
Dr. Carl May
Social Science in Medicine 2001 Jun;52(12):1889-901

Homer Warner Award

The award is named for Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of informatics and the founder of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. This awarded is presented to the paper that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and experimental results documenting the value of these approaches

2008
Development and Evaluation of a Clinical Note Section Header Terminology
Joshua Denny Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
 

2005
Physician Use of Electronic Medical Records: Issues and Successes with Direct Data Entry and Physician Productivity
Paul D. Clayton, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT.

2003 (There was a tie in 2003)
Using Adaptive Turnaround Documents to Electronically Acquire Structured Data in a Clinical Setting
Paul G. Biondich, V. Anand, S.M. Downs, and C.J. McDonald, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

Use-centered Development of a Web-based Preschool Vision Screening Tool
David P. Taylor, Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, MA, B.E.Bray, and N. Staggers, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and R.J. Olson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

2002
Using Point of Service Clinical Documentation to Reduce Variability in Charge Capture
S.N. Thorton, PhD, H. Yu, MD, Intermountain Health Care, and R.M. Gardner, PhD, Intermountain Health Care and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

2001
The Effects on Clinician Ordering Patterns of a Computerized Decision Support System for Neuroradiology Imaging Studies
David L. Sanders, MD

1998
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Automated Term Composition (p.765)
P.L. Elkin, MD, K.R. Bailey, PhD, C.G. Chute, MD, DrPH

1996
The UMLS Knowledge Source Server: a versatile Internet?based research tool.
McCray AT, Razi AM, Bangalore AK, Browne AC, Stavri PZ.

2008
Intravenous Medication Administration in Intensive Care: Opportunities for Technological Solutions
Jacqueline Moss

2007
An Analysis of Narrative Nursing Documentation in an Otherwise Structured Intensive Care Clinical Information System
Jacqueline Moss, University of Alabama at Birmingham – Nursing

2006
Toward the Creation of an Ontology for Nursing Document Sections: Mapping Section Names to the LOINC Semantic Model
Sookyung Hyun, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY.

2005
Promoting Safe Nursing Care By Bringing Visibility to the Disciplinary Aspects of Interdisciplinary Care
Gail M. Keenan, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Elizabeth Yakel, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2003
Clinical Information Needs in Context: An Observational Study of Clinicians Whil Using a Clinical Information System
Leanne M. Currie, M. Graham, M. Allen, S. Bakken, V. Patel, and J.J. Cimino, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2002
Information Model and Terminology Models Issues Related to Goals
S. Bakken, RN, DNSc, Columbia University, New York, NY, J.J. Warren, RN, PhD, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, A. Casey, RN, MSc, Royal College of Nursing, London, United Kingdom, D. Konicek, RN, SNOMED International, Northfield, IL, C. Lundberg, RN, Kaiser Permanente, Aurora, CO, and M. Pooke, MSc, DpodM, Clinical Professions Information Advisory Group, Northampton, United Kingdom.

2000
Bakken, S., Parker, J., Konicek, D., & Campbell, K. An evaluation of ICNP intervention axes as terminology model components.

1999
Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, & O'Brien, A. Evaluation of a type definition for nursing activities.

1998
Designing HeartCare: Custom Computerized Home Care for Patients Recovering from CABG Surgery (page 381)
Patricia Flately Brennan, RN, PhD, Barrett Caldwell, PhD, Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, N. Sreenath, PhD, Josette Jones, MS

1997
Lush, M.T. & Henry, S.B. Nurses' use of health status data to plan for patient care: Implications for the development of a computer-based outcomes infrastructure.

1996
Zielstorff, R.D., Barenett, G.O., Fitzmaurice, J.B., Estey, G. Hamilton, G., Vickery, A., Welebob, E., & Shahzad, C. A decision support system for prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers based on AHCPR guidelines.

1995
Nurses, Pagers, and Patient-Specific Criteria: Three Keys to Improved Critical Value Reporting
K.E. Tate, PhD, R.M. Gardner, PhD, K. Scherting, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.

For 2008, the student paper award winners

First Prize
Using Computerized Provider Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support to Improve Primary-Care Physician Implementation of Consultants Medical Recommendations
Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute

Second Prize
Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Accuracy of Automated Notifiable Disease Reporting
Jeff Friedlin, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School

Third Prize
Somatic Mutation Signatures of Cancer
Stephen Piccolo, University of Utah

For 2007, the student paper award winners were:

First Prize
SANDS: An Architecture for Clinical Decision Support in a National Health Information Network
Adam Wright, Oregon Health & Science University

Second Prize #1
Signout: A Collaborative Document with Implications for the Future of Clinical Information Systems
Daniel Stein, Columbia University

Second Prize #2
Use of Classification Models Based on Usage Data for the Selection of Infobutton Resources
Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah

For 2006, the student paper award winners were:

Martin Epstein Prize
Discovering Biological Guilds through Topological Abstraction
Gil Alterovitz and Marco F. Romani, MIT/Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Second Prize
Automated Development of Order Sets and Corollary Orders by Data Mining in an Ambulatory Computerized Physician Order Entry System
Adam Wright and Dean F. Sittig, Oregon Health & Science University, Northwest Permanente Medical Group, Portland OR

Third Prize
Task Analysis of Writing Hospital Admission Orders: Evidence of a Problem-Based Approach
Christopher Johnson and Roni F. Zeiger, Stanford Medical Informatics, Palo Alto, CA

2005
First Prize
Design, Implementation, Use, and Preliminary Evaluation of SEBASTIAN, a Standards-based Web Service for Clinical Decision Support
Kensaku Kawamoto and David F. Lobach, Duke University, Durham, NC

Second Prize
Using Bayesian Networks to Predict Survival of Liver Transplant Patients
Nathan Hoot and Dominik Aronsky, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Third Prize
Patient-specific Models for Predicting the Outcomes of Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia
Shyam Visweswaran and Gregory F. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2003
First Prize
Text Categorization Models for Retrieval of High Quality Articles in Internal Medicine
Y. Aphinyanaphongs, and C.F. Aliferis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Second Prize
The Cognitive Complexity of a Provider Order Entry Interface
J. Horsky, D.R. Kaufman, and V.L. Patel, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Third Prize
IndexFinder: A Method of Extracting Key Concepts from Clinical Texts for Indexing
Q. Zou, W.W. Chu, C. Morioka, G.H. Leazer, H. Kangarloo, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

2002
First Prize
Analysis of Identifier Performance Using a Deterministic Linkage Algorithm
S.J. Grannis, MD, J.M. Overhage, MD, PhD, and C.J. McDonald, MD, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.

Second Prize
Free-text Medical Document Retrieval Via Phrase-based Vector Space Model
W. Mao, MS, and W.W. Chu, PhD, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Third Prize
Generating a Mortality Model From a Pediatric ICU (PICU) Database Utilizing Knowledge Discovery
C.E. Kennedy, MD, and N. Aoki, MD, PhD, MS, Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, and Department of Information Technology, Baylor College of Medicine, and The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX.

2001
First Prize
Building ICU Artifact Detection Models with More Date in Less Time
Christine L. Tsien, PhD

Second Prize
Comparing Syntactic Complexity in Medical and non-Medical Corpora
David A. Cambell, MPhil

Third Prize
A Knowledge Model for the Interpretation and Visualization of NLP-parsed Discharged Summaries
Michael Krauthammer, MD

1999
First Prize
Wendy W. Chapman, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah and LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT

Second Prize
Stephen Porter, MD, MPH, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Third Prize
Denise M. Goldsmith, MS, RN, Center for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

1998
First Place
Data Mining by Clinicians
Daniel J. Nigrin

Second Place
Using the Extensible Markup Lanaguage (XML) in Automated Clinical Practice Guidelines
Anil K. Dubey

Third Place
Vector-field Classification in Magnetic-resonance Angiography
Maria A. Tovar

Other AMIA Recognition Awards

Chairman's Club Award

This award honors an AMIA member for outstanding membership recruitment during the Member Get A Member Campaign. The award is presented annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium Chairman's Club Reception.

2010 - William Hirsh

2009 - Brian Gugerty

2008 - Patricia Flatley Brennan

2007 - Yehoshua Perl

2006 - James J. Cimino

2005 - Daniel Sands

2004 - Linda Goodwin

2003 - Suzanne Bakken

2002 - Brian Gugerty

2001 - Connie Delaney

2000-1997 - Patricia Abbott

1996 - Syed Haque

1995-1994 - Alan Rowberg

1993 - Edward Shortliffe

1992-1991 - Alan Rowberg

Leadership Awards

AMIA Leadership Awards are given by the Chairman of the Board and the President and CEO for outstanding volunteer leadership and service to the association. The awards are presented at the AMIA Annual Symposium.

2010
Don Ellison – Volunteer work for AMIA/ACMI producing the Collen video
Dan Foltz – Service as chair of the Industry Advisory Council
Ken Goodman – Service as chair of the Vendor Task Force
Julie McGowan – Service as chair of the Public Policy Committee
Jaap Suermondt – Service as chair of the Representation Task Force

2009
Patti Brennan
Atul Butte
Chuck Friedman
Chris Lehmann
Justin Starren

2008
Reed M. Gardner
Brian Gugerty
Gilad Kuperman
Dennis O'Leary
John C. Poikonen
William M. Tierney

2007
Cynthia S. Gadd
Michael O. Leavitt
Nancy M. Lorenzi
Suzanne Markel-Fox
Mark A. Musen
William W. Stead
Congressman David Wu

2006
David J. Brailer
Carolyn Clancy
William R. Hersh
Congresswoman Nancy L. Johnson
Steven E. Labkoff
The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
Charles Safran
Congressman David Wu

2005
Paul Clayton
Connie Delaney
Robert Greenes
William Hersh
John Holmes
Linda Kloss
Jochen Moehr
Jerome Osheroff and Jonathan Teich
Ida Sim

2003
Michael Ackerman
David Bates
Peter Goltra
Paul Tang
John Zapp

2002
Jeffrey Blair
Christopher Chute
James Cimino
Simon Cohn
Stanley Huff
Betsy Humphreys
Clement McDonald
Judy Ozbolt
Kent Spackman

2001
Carol Aronson, Margaret Olah, Judy Privett, and Molly Pruett
Milton Corn
The Nursing Informatics Working Group
Helmuth Orthner
Thomas Piemme
Charles Safran
Blake Wachter

2000
Marion Ball
Bonnie Kaplan
HC "Moon" Mullins
Edward Shortliffe

1999
Patricia Abbott
Joseph Hales
W. Ed Hammond
Janice Kennedy
Charles Safran
Harold Schoolman

1998
Don Detmer
Beverly Kane and Daniel Sands
Dan Masys
Kathleen McCormick
Paul Tang

1997
W. Ed Hammond
Clement McDonald
William Stead

1996
William Braithwaite
Don Detmer

1995
The Informatics Superhighway: Prototyping on the World Wide Web
J.J. Cimino, MD, S.A. Socratous, R. Grewal, MBA, Departments of Medical Informatics and Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.

1994
PEN-Ivory: The Design and Evaluation of a Pen-based Computer System for Structured Data Entry (pp 447)
A.D. Poon and L.M. Fagan, Section on Medical Informatics Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

1993
Using a Hospital Information System to Assess the Effects of Adverse Drug Events
R. Scott Evans, PhD, D.C. Classen, MD, L.E. Stevens, MS, S.L. Pestotnik, RPh, R.M. Gardner, PhD, J.F. Lloyd, BS, and J.P. Burke, MD

Past Awards (no longer issued)

Priscilla Mayden Award

The Martin Epstein and Student Paper Awards

The Martin Epstein and Student Paper Awards are issued in recognition of best student papers at the Annual Symposium. Student papers are selected by the Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee and forwarded to the Student Paper Advisory Committee (SPAC) who nominate eight finalist papers for presentation at the Student Paper Competition. Based on a combination of the written paper and oral presentation, the judges will select a first, second, and third place paper. If the first place paper is truly extraordinary, the (SPAC) awards the Martin Epstein Award.

Harriet Werley Award

In recognition of the paper, with a nurse as first author, making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics.