2009 Award Recipients
AMIA 2009 Signature Awards
The Signature Awards program provides an opportunity for AMIA members to be recognized for significant contributions to the field at different stages of their career.
Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence
Betsy L. Humphreys, deputy director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, receives the Collen Award for her personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics, which has made a lasting impact on the field. The prestigious Collen Award is the highest honor offered in the field, recognizing a body of work that has influenced biomedical informatics throughout an entire career.
Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics
Paul C. Tang, MD, MS, chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Calif., serves as vice chair of the Federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). He is a leading force in representing national standards for quality health care and EHRs, chairing an IOM patient safety committee and other panels dedicated to safeguarding patients through precision measurements and patient management.
Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics
Isaac (Zak) Kohane, director of the Children’s Hospital Informatics program at Harvard Medical School, Boston, leads multiple collaborations at Harvard, using genomics and computer science in the study of cancer and autism. Dr. Kohane developed i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside), a program used internationally at more than 18 academic health centers.
New Investigator Award
S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Tenn, is honored for his research as a clinical informatics systems evaluator. His early work focused on evaluating clinical decision-support systems, clinical documentation systems and the interface terminologies that support structured data entry. His special research interest is evaluating pediatric informatics systems, including growth charts in electronic health record systems.
Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award
Connie White Delaney, professor and dean at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, is honored for her distinguished career using informatics to transform patient care. She is the first Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing. A policy “wonk” active nationally, she is a recent appointee to the HIT Policy Committee established by ARRA. She is particularly interested in national standards for essential nursing care and outcomes/safety data.
AMIA 2009 Leadership Awards
In addition to the Signature Awards, AMIA recognized the growing field’s most accomplished and promising professionals with Leadership Awards. Those honored for outstanding volunteer leadership and service to AMIA and its members are:
• Atul J. Butte, Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine, Calif.
• Patricia Flatley Brennan, Moehlman Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Charles P. Friedman, Chief Science Officer & Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Christoph U. Lehmann, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Division of Neonatology, Baltimore, Md.
• Justin B. Starren, Director of Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Wisc.
Distinguished Paper Award
Distinguished papers are selected from a slate of candidate papers recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee by the AMIA Awards Committee.
Development and Evaluation of a Study Design Typology for Human Research, Simona Carini, University of California, San Francisco
Development of a Natural Language Processing System to Identify Timing and Status of Colonoscopy Testing in Electronic Medical Records, Joshua C. Denny, Vanderbilt University
Persistent Paper: The Myth of “Going Paperless, Richard H. Dykstra, Oregon Health & Science University
Do Clinical Profiles Constitute Privacy Risks for Research Participants? Grigorios Loukides, Vanderbilt University
Serving the Enterprise and Beyond with Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2), Shawn N. Murphy, Massachusetts General Hospital
An Unintended Consequence of Electronic Prescriptions: Prevalence and Impact of Internal Discrepancies, Matvey B. Palchuk, Harvard Medical School and Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Student Paper Awards
The Student Paper Awards are issued in recognition of best student papers at the Annual Symposium.
First place: Visualized Data Speeds Review of Potential Adverse Drug Events in Patients on Multiple Medications, Jon Duke, Regenstrief Institute
Second place: A Network-theoretic Approach for Translation across Open Biological Ontologies, Chintan Patel, Columbia University
Third place: Exploring Variation in User Adoption of Personalized Risk Calculator Estimates, Christopher Harle, University of Florida
AMIA 2009 Diana Forsythe Award
Honors either a peer-reviewed AMIA paper published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium or peer-reviewed article published in JAMIA or other journals publishing medical informatics-related content that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe’s work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences.
Oudshoorn, Nelly. Diagnosis at a distance: the invisible work of patients and healthcare professionals in cardiac telemonitoring technology. Sociology of Health & Illness 30(2)2008:272–288.
AMIA 2009 Harriet H. Werley Award
This is awarded to the paper presented with a nurse as first author, that is judged to make the greatest contribution to advancing the field of nursing informatics. The candidate papers are recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, and the selection of the recipient is made by a special committee within the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group.
Fall TIPS: Strategies to Promote Adoption and Use of a Fall Prevention Toolkit, Patricia C. Dykes, Partners HealthCare System, Inc
AMIA 2009 Nursing Informatics Working Group Award
This is awarded to the paper presented with a nurse as first author, that is judged to make the greatest contribution to advancing the field of nursing informatics. The candidate papers are recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, and the selection of the recipient is made by a special committee within the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group.
Cognitive Analysis of Decision Support for Antibiotic Describing at the Point of Ordering in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Barbara Sheehan, Columbia University
AMIA 2009 Homer R. Warner Award
Awarded by 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.
MedEx – A Medication Information Extraction System for Clinical Narratives, Hua Xu, Vanderbilt University
Distinguished Poster Awards
The Awards Committee recognized the following distinguished posters presented at the Annual Symposium Closing Session:
Enhancing Quality of Healthcare Information System via Traceability Matrix, Raed Haltam, UMIT
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE IV) Prediction Mortality Score: Automatic Mapping of Chronic Conditions, Andrew Hanson, Mayo Clinic
Innovative Applications to Support and Improve Clinical Processes, Andrew Klare, The Ohio State University Medical Center
Predicting Emergency Department Diversion using an Artificial Neural Network With Temporal Trends: A Preliminary Study, Jeffrey Leegon, Vanderbilt University
Creating an Informatics Framework for Shared Decision-making for Patient and Physician: Integration of Reasoned Action and Informatics Model for Shared Decision-making for a Patient and Physician to Assure Quality When Dealing with Medical Uncertainty, Roxana Maffei, UT Health Science Center
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology Using Community based Participatory Research, Lauren Mercincavage, Weill Cornell Medical College
Pioneer Radiological Image Sharing Beyond Hospital Authority for Quality Patientcentric Care, James Tan, Hong Kong Hospital Authority
Creating a Foundation for the Design of Culturally-informed Personal Health Records: Development of a Methodology, Rupa Valdez, University of Wisconsin
Predicting Sepsis in the ICU using Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Anthony. Wong, University of Utah
