Signature Awards Committee

The committee selects the New Investigator Award, Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, and the Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award. The committee chair is the Board Chair-elect (or Immediate Past Board Chair), the Awards Committee Chair, the ACMI Awards Committee Chair, AMIA President & CEO, and the current Board Chair. AMIA senior staff serve on the committee without vote. The committee assists with the nomination process for Signature Awards by stimulating nominations. The committee receives proposals for new Signature Awards. The committee reviews these proposals prior to presenting it to the Board for approval. The committee pays special attention to funding aspects of proposed awards and takes into consideration current award financing as it relates to the creation of new Signature Awards. Award details are maintained in separate documents maintained by the AMIA office.