• AMIA General Membership Meetings
  
• AMIA Committee Meetings
  
• AMIA Board of Directors Meetings
  
• JAMIA Editorial Board
  
• AMIA 2003 Symposium Meetings
  


• American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Programs
  

• MedInfo 2004 Meetings
  
• IAIMS Consortium Board Breakfast
  
• IMIA NI-SIG Meeting
  
• National Library of Medicine - Training Program Showcase
  
• CPRI-HOST
  
• National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics Meetings
  

The American Medical Informatics Association has several permanent (standing) committees and ad hoc committees. These committees make recommendations to the AMIA Board of Directors concerning policies and activities of the association. Committee appointments are generally two years, coinciding with the term of the AMIA President. Full descriptions and committee rosters are listed on the AMIA Web site here.

All Committee Meetings will take place at the Hilton Palacio del Rio

Saturday, November 9

Working Group Steering Committee Meeting
3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Hacienda II

Sunday, November 10

Working Group and Special Interest Group Leaders Luncheon and Business Meeting
12:30 pm-4:30 pm
La Condesa

Monday, November 11

Bylaws Committee Meeting
7:00 am-8:15 am
La Princesa

International Affairs Committee Meeting
7:00 am-8:15 am
La Vista

Education Committee Meeting
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
La Princesa

Membership Committee Meeting
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
La Vista

Publications Committee Meeting
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
La Vista

AMIA 2003 Scientific Program
Committee Meeting
4:00 pm-5:50 pm
La Duquesa

Tuesday, November 12

Ethics Committee Meeting
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
La Princesa

Public Policy Committee Meeting
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
La Reina

Finance and Audit Committee Meeting
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
La Reina

Meetings Committee Meeting
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
La Vista

Wednesday, November 12

Awards Committee Meeting
7:00 am-8:15 am
Hacienda II

Professional Relations Committee Meeting
7:00 am-8:15 am
La Reina

Working Group Steering Committee Meeting
7:00 am-8:15 am
La Vista

Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence Presentation
AMIA Opening Session
Sunday, November 10
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Ballroom B, Street Level


This special award is made to an individual who has shown leadership and made significant contributions to medical informatics. The ACMI Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence will be presented to Marion J. Ball, EdD at the Opening Session of AMIA 2002.

Dr. Marion Ball is an international innovator, educator, author, and leader with over twenty-five years of experience in the field of health care information technology.

Through her work on behalf of the National Library of Medicine and its Board of Regents, Dr. Ball is well acquainted with the mission and promise of programs in the federal, academic, and private sectors, and has published some of the core texts in the field and in telehealth. Her book, Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials, was recently published, making this her twentieth title published in the health informatics series she edits for Springer-Verlag, New York.

She is a founding board member of Health on the Net (HON) and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where she earlier served as a member of the IOM committee to improve the patient record.

Dr. Ball has received numerous academic, national, and international awards for her contribution to the medical and information technology industry, including her 1984 induction into the American College of Medical Informatics. She is the recipient of such coveted awards as the Distinguished Service Award from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Pioneer Award for Computers in Healthcare and is a two-time recipient of the President's Award from the American Medical Informatics Association.

Dr. Ball is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and an affiliate faculty of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

As an educator and speaker, Dr. Ball has led workshops and lectured on various aspects of health informatics worldwide. Most recently, she has concentrated on patient safety and the role of enabling technologies.

As Vice President of Healthlink's Clinical Solutions Division, Dr. Ball helps health care companies with their integrated computing services from planning, developing, selecting, training and implementing to optimizing their clinical systems.

Past Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence Recipients includes:

2001 - Co-recipients Howard L. Bleich, MD, and Warner V. Slack, MD
2000 - Jean-Raoul Scherrer, MD, PhD
1999 - Joshua Lederberg, PhD
1998 - Robert S. Ledley, DDS
1997 - Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD
1996 - G. Octo Barnett, MD
1995 - not presented
1994 - Homer Warner, MD, PhD
1993 - Morris F. Collen, MD

ACMI - Meet the Experts

Leaders of ACMI will describe their recent activities noted by their topic in a casual small group setting. This is an opportunity to ask those special questions you may have that could not be addressed in the more formal presentations. We're delighted to present an outstanding roster of speakers on a wide range of topics at AMIA 2002.

Monday, November 11
12:30 pm-1:30 pm

Michael J. Ackerman PhD
Next Generation Networking
Room 203 A/B, Concourse 2nd Level

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
Room 001, River Level

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
Career Options for Women in Medical Informatics Education
Room 006 A/B/C, River Level

Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH
Vocabularies and terminologies
La Duquesa, Hilton Palacio del Rio

Parvati Dev, PhD
Simulation-based learning
Room 204 A/B, Concourse 2nd Level

Charles P. Friedman, PhD
Evaluation studies and methods
Room 006 D, River Level

Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD
Incorporating Knowledge in Clinical Systems
Room 201, Concourse 2nd Level

Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD
Knowledge Engineering for Automated Clinical Guidelines
Room 202 A/B, Concourse 2nd Level

Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD
Activities at the National Library of Medicine
Room 007 A/B/C, River Level

Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD
Education in Biomedical Informatics
Room 008 A/B, River Level

Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD
Clinical Decision Support And Quality Of Care Improvement
La Reina, Hilton Palacio del Rio

William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD
Public Health Informatics
Room 007 D, River Level


Tuesday, November 12
12:30 pm-1:30 pm

David W. Bates, MD
Patient Safety and Computerized Physician Order Entry
Room 001 A/B, River Level

Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc
Nursing Concept Representation And Standardized Terminologies
Room 007 D, River Level

Eta Berner, EdD
Distance Learning Technologies
La Corona, Hilton Palacio Del Rio

J. Michael Fitzmaurice, PhD
HIPAA Privacy Rule
Room 008 A/B, River Level

Reinhold Haux, ProfFr
Strategic IT Management In Hospitals
Hacienda III, Hilton Palacio del Rio

William R. Hersh, MD
Information Retrieval And Digital Libraries
Room 201, River Level

Stanley M. Huff, MD
HL7 - current activities and prospects
Room 006 D, River Level

Teri E. Klein, PhD
Pharmacogenetics And Pharmacogenomics
Room 203 A/B, Concourse 2nd Level

Alexa T. McCray, PhD
Biomedical Ontologies and Medical Language Processing
Room 007 A/B/C, River Level

Vimla L. Patel, PhD
Why Medical Informaticians Should Learn About Cognitive Science
Room 202 A/B, Concourse 2nd Level

Other ACMI Events

ACMI Executive Committee Meeting
Sunday, November 10
2:30 pm-4:30 pm
La Princesa, Hilton Palacio del Rio

The Annual ACMI Dinner and Induction of New Fellows
(by invitation)
Sunday, November 10
7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Stetson Restaurant
Hilton Palacio del Rio

ACMI Business Meeting
Tuesday, November 12
5:15 pm-6:15 pm
La Condesa, 22nd Floor
Hilton Palacio del Rio

ACMI Sponsored Event
ACMI Sponsored Bioinformatics Track Plenary Session (S33)
Training in Bio-medical Informatics: Future Approaches to Curricula and Funding
Tuesday, November 12
8:30 am-10:00 am
Room 006 A/B/C, River Level

The theme of this AMIA Symposium is Bio*Medical Informatics: One Discipline.
The unity and integration conveyed by this theme are perhaps a viable visions from the viewpoints of most AMIA members, but developments in the larger world of biomedical research might suggest otherwise. It may be the case that two distinct cultures-one aligned with molecular biology and the other aligned with the computational sciences (including informatics)-are working independently and even at cross purposes to develop a vision for how computation and biology will interact in the future. These diverging cultures are seen clearly in models for training as well as practice. This session will focus on models for training future informaticians, models that largely reflect the integrated and sophisticated vision of this year's symposium. This discussion will be put in the context of the diverging cultures that may prove to be a significant impediment to the widespread adoption of these integrated models.

Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training
Harvard University School of Public Health

Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program at Yale
Yale University

Medical Informatics Research Training at Columbia
Columbia University Health Sciences

Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh

Johns Hopkins Health Sciences Informatics Training Program
Johns Hopkins University

Training of Toolmakers for Bio-medical Informatics
Medical University of South Carolina

Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Vanderbilt University

Regenstrief Informatics Research Fellowships
Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis

Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine
University of Wisconsin Madison

Research Training in Medical Informatics
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training
University of Missouri Columbia

Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine
Rice University

University of Utah Medical Informatics Training
University of Utah

Biomedical Informatics Training Program
University of California Irvine

Training Program for Imaging-based Medical Informatics
University of California Los Angeles

Graduate Training in Biomedical Informatics
Stanford University

Training Program in Health Informatics
Oregon Health & Science University

Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program
University of Washington

Seventh Nicholes E. Davis CPR Recognition Award of Excellence Symposium
2002 Davies Program Tom Payne, MD, University of Washington, and 2000 Davies Award of Excellence Winner, invites all to attend the Symposium. Through discussion and sharing of ideas, attendees can take action to ensure that their own personal transition to a CPR is successful and perhaps even worthy of the Davies Award of Excellence. The Symposium is a rich source of CPR experiences, lessons, and solutions shared among health care professionals from all over the world

Schedule at a Glance
Saturday, November 9
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Nicholas E. Davies Recognition Award Winners
Salon North, Hilton Palacio del Rio

Sunday, November 10
7:15 am - 8:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Room 001 B, River Level

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Luncheon
Room 001 A, River Level

8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Nicholas E. Davies Symposium,
Room 001 B, River Level

Presentation of the Award Winning CPR Systems

Administrators, information technologists, health care providers, and vendors can learn first-hand how to manage a complex CPR project and provide functionality to users. See the latest technology in different environments and its impact on health care delivery.

Award of Excellence Winners

2002 Winners to be announced in August 2002 at the CPRI-Host Web site at: http://www.cpri-host.org

2001
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
The Ohio State University Health System
Heritage Behavioral Health Center, Inc.

2000
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
St. Vincent's Psychiatric Hospital (special commendation)

1999
The Queen's Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Rocky Mountain Region

1998
Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

1997
Kaiser Permanente of Ohio
North Mississippi Health Services
Regenstrief Institute of Health Care



About the Nicholas E. Davies CPR Recognition Program

The Nicholas E. Davies CPR Recognition Program was established to encourage and recognize excellence in CPR systems. The Program fosters CPR development by recognizing health care provider organizations that successfully use CPR systems to improve health care delivery. Information on successful systems collected as part of the program, including empirical data on the costs and benefits, will better inform health care leaders and the public about the significant contribution of CPR systems to improve health care and provide a framework for defining further investment and innovation. The Program's objectives are to:

• Promote the vision of CPR systems through concrete examples
  
• Understand and share documented value of CPR systems
  
• Promote development and use of health care information standards
  
• Provide visibility and recognition for high-impact CPR systems
  
• Share successful CPR implementation strategies