AMIA Membership Information

AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics. AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA's 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health.

For over thirty years the members of AMIA and its honorific college, the American College of Medical Informatics, have sponsored meetings, education, policy and research programs. The federal government frequently calls upon AMIA as a source of informed, unbiased opinions on policy issues relating to the national health information infrastructure, uses and protection of personal health information, and public health considerations, among others.

AMIA members encompass an interdisciplinary and diverse group of individuals and organizations that represent over 65 countries. Individual members include:

• Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
• Researchers and educators
• Advanced students pursuing a career in informatics
• Scientists and developers
• Government officials and policy makers
• Consultants and industry representatives
• Standards developers

Your training and education in informatics will prepare you for a wide range of top positions such as:

• Academic Faculty
• Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
• Chief Medical/Nursing Information Officers (CMIOs/CNIOs)
• Directors of Informatics
• Industry Executives
• Public Health and Government Officials

There are many paths you can take to a career in this exciting field. Professionals may begin their careers as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or dentists and then obtain specialized graduate and/or fellowship training. Others may begin their careers in biological sciences, computer science, or other disciplines and then obtain informatics degrees. The need for informaticians is so great that you can find jobs at any stage along your career path.

Membership Categories

AMIA offers several categories of individual and organizational membership to help you personalize your involvement and interaction with the association. Click here to see an overview of AMIA's membership categories.

AMIA in collaboration with the CIS-WG announces that registration for the 2009-2010 Mentorship Program is open.  By participating, mentors have the opportunity to

• get to know great newer trainees
• help newer trainees with some/all of the above in highly manageable way
• mold newer trainees and provide guidance you wish you had had
• stay in touch with the Mentee base
• brush up your own networking skills and build your network
• look for potential project collaborators and candidates for hire
• encourage bright minds to stick with informatics, thereby strengthening the field
• serve and strengthen AMIA - your professional home

If you are interested in being a mentor, click on the graphic above to visit the site.  Once matched, mentees and mentors will partner actively for the duration of  that calendar year. Mentors, you may participate in the program in an ongoing basis, and we hope that you will!

Please consider becoming a mentor - we believe that all will benefit  greatly from this new networking opportunity and we hope for great turnout.