Signature Awards

The AMIA Signature Awards program provides an opportunity for AMIA members at different stages of their career to be recognized for significant contributions to the field of informatics.

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.

Current and past winners

2012

  • First place: Prognostic Physiology: Modeling Patient Severity in Intensive Care Units Using Radial Domain Folding, Rohit Joshi and Peter Szolovits; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Second place: Phenome-Based Analysis as a Means for Discovering Context-Dependent Clinical Reference Ranges, Jeremy L Warner and Gil Alterovitz; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
  • Third place: A Qualitative Analysis of EHR Clinical Document Synthesis by Clinicians, Oladimeji Farri, David S Pieckiewicz, Ahmed S Rahman, Terrence J Adam, Serguei V Pakhomov, and Genevieve B Melton; Institute for Health Informatics, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Surgery

2011

  • First place: Evaluating Effectiveness of Clinical Alerts: a Signal Detection Approach, M. Ong and E. Coiera, University of New South Wales
  • Second place: Exploring Schizophrenia Drug-gene Interactions through Molecular Network and Pathway Modeling, D. Putnam, J. Sun, and Z. Zhao, Vanderbilt University
  • Third place: Naïve Electronic Health Record-based Phenotype Identification for Rheumatoid Arthritis, R. Carroll, A. Eyler, and J. Denny, Vanderbilt University

2010

  • First place: Private Medical Record Linkage with Approximate Matching, E. Durham, Y. Xue; M. Kantarcioglu; B. Malin, Vanderbilt University
  • Second place: A Method to Compute Treatment Suggestions from Local Order Entry Data, J. Klann, Regenstrief Institute; J. Klann, Indiana University; G. Schadow, S. Downs, Regenstrief Institute
  • Third place: Disseminating Maternal Health Information to Rural Women: A User-Centered Design Framework, V. Parmar, Delft University of Technology

2009

  • 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

2008

  • First place: Using Computerized Provider Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support to Improve Primary-Care Physician Implementation of Consultants Medical Recommendations, Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute
  • Second place: Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Accuracy of Automated Notifiable Disease Reporting, Jeff Friedlin, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School
  • Third place: Somatic Mutation Signatures of Cancer, Stephen Piccolo, University of Utah

2007 (tie for second place, no third place)

  • First place: SANDS: An Architecture for Clinical Decision Support in a National Health Information Network, Adam Wright, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Second place: Signout: A Collaborative Document with Implications for the Future of Clinical Information Systems, Daniel Stein, Columbia University
  • Second place: Use of Classification Models Based on Usage Data for the Selection of Infobutton Resources, Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah

2006

  • Martin Epstein Award: Discovering Biological Guilds through Topological Abstraction, Gil Alterovitz and Marco F. Ramoni, MIT/Harvard, Cambridge, MA
  • Second place: 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 place: 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 place: 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 place: Using Bayesian Networks to Predict Survival of Liver Transplant Patients, Nathan Hoot and Dominik Aronsky, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
  • Third place: 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 place: Text Categorization Models for Retrieval of High Quality Articles in Internal Medicine, Y. Aphinyanaphongs, and C.F. Aliferis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • Second place: The Cognitive Complexity of a Provider Order Entry Interface, J. Horsky, D.R. Kaufman, and V.L. Patel, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Third place: 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 place: 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 place: 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 place: 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 place: Building ICU Artifact Detection Models with More Date in Less Time, Christine L. Tsien, PhD
  • Second place: Comparing Syntactic Complexity in Medical and non-Medical Corpora, David A. Cambell, MPhil
  • Third place: A Knowledge Model for the Interpretation and Visualization of NLP-parsed Discharged Summaries, Michael Krauthammer, MD

1999

  • First place: Wendy W. Chapman, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah and LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Second place: Stephen Porter, MD, MPH, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Third place: 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

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. The criteria are:

  • Significant scientific productivity in informatics prior to reaching eligibility for fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
  • Multiple significant scientific publications including contributions to journals including and other than JAMIA.
  • Demonstrated commitment to AMIA through membership, presentations at AMIA conferences, and/or publications in JAMIA.
Current and past winners
  • 2012 - Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS
  • 2011 - Kai Zheng, PhD
  • 2010 - Adam Wright, PhD
  • 2009 - S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH
  • 2008 - Atul J. Butte, MD, PhD
  • 2007 - David A. Dorr, MD, MS
  • 2006 - Mia K. Markey, PhD
  • 2005 - Mor Peleg, PhD

Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award

This award recognizes an individual’s distinguished career and significant impact on the care of patients and the discipline of nursing. The Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award honors a professional with exemplary principles and practices and a substantial record of contribution to the field of nursing informatics. The criteria are:

  • Focus in Nursing Informatics.
  • Characteristics and achievements should include visionary leadership; global impact; and enduring contribution to nursing professional practice, education, administration, research, and/or health policy.
  • Demonstrated commitment to AMIA through membership.
Current and past winners
  • 2012 - Judith J. Warren, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACMI
  • 2011 - Rita Zielstorff RN, MS, FAAN,FACMI
  • 2010 - Judith G. Ozbolt, PhD, RN
  • 2009 - Connie Delaney, RN, PhD
  • 2008 - Elizabeth (Betsy) Weiner, PhD, RN
  • 2007 - Susan J. Grobe, PhD, RN
  • 2006 - Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc
  • 2005 - Virginia K. Saba, EdD, RN

Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics

This award recognizes 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. The criteria are:

  • Awarded to an individual at any stage of a career for contribution(s) to health policy in biomedical and health informatics.
  • Contribution(s) should be conducted in accordance with the philosophy that all citizens and populations deserve a state-of-the-art health system that provides safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable health care services.
  • Characteristics and achievements of the recipient should include one or more of the following accomplishments: Visionary leadership in the health policy realm; Action-oriented advocacy work producing a regional, national or global result; and Advancement to the domain health policy though-leadership generating a sustainable contribution to the health system.
  • Demonstrated commitment to AMIA through membership and/or support of the organization’s mission by acting as a strong advocate for biomedical and health informatics in the public policy arena.
Current and past winners
  • 2012 - Charles Friedman, PhD
  • 2011 - Julie McGowan, PhD
  • 2010 - David W. Bates, MD, MSc
  • 2009 - Paul C. Tang, MD, MS
  • 2008 - Don E. Detmer, MD, MA

Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics

Dr. Lindberg's continuous commitment to the field has dramatically altered the scope and extent of informatics' practice and research. The contribution recognized will have advanced the field for example in the form of a significant innovation or a unique approach and contribution to education or training, but not for a lifetime body of work. The criteria are:

  • Awarded to an individual at any stage of a career for a specific technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics.
  • Work leading to a winner of this award will have been conducted in a not-for-profit setting.
  • Adoption of the particular advance by the informatics community will be on a national or international level.
  • Scope of a successful innovation of informatics has dramatically moved or changed the field.
  • Demonstrated commitment to AMIA through membership.
Current and past winners
  • 2012 - James J. Cimino, MD
  • 2011 - R. Scott Evans, MS, PhD, FACMI
  • 2010 - Carol Friedman, PhD
  • 2009 - Isaac (Zak) S. Kohane, MD, PhD
  • 2008 - William R. Hersh, MD
  • 2007 - Randolph A. Miller, MD
  • 2006 - Mark A. Musen, MD, PhD
  • 2005 - William W. Stead, MD

Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence

In honor of Morris F. Collen, a pioneer in the field, this prestigious award is the highest honor in informatics that is presented by the American College of Medical Informatics to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics has made a lasting impression on healthcare and biomedicine. Recipients of the Collen Medal along with a video tribute (when available) follow. Production of the video is courtesy of the National Library of Medicine and archived as part of their History of Medicine series.

Current and past winners

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