Academic Forum

The Academic Forum is a membership unit within AMIA dedicated to serving the needs of postbaccalaureate biomedical and health informatics training programs. The Academic Forum comprises informatics professionals responsible for the leadership and excellence of informatics training programs. Members of the Academic Forum are engaged in issues relating to the organization and management of educational and research programs in universities and colleges.

Participants focus on a range of issues important to faculty such as management, promotion criteria, recruitment, models of success in building informatics programs, salary scales, advocacy within academic environments, and other topics. A current AMIA membership is required for participation in the Academic Forum. The benefits of membership include:

• A place for academic leaders to call their professional home within the national organization for biomedical and health informatics training programs
• Complimentary attendance to the AMIA Academic Forum Annual Conference
• Special exhibition rates at the AMIA Annual Symposium*
• Strategy meeting at the AMIA Annual Symposium
• Use of social media to collaborate with colleagues
• Sharing of knowledge and best practices to advance the discipline
• Communicating as a single voice on important policy matters
• Networking with colleagues who share similar opportunities and challenges
• Exclusive access (limited number of slots are available) to AMIA TV to promote your academic programs at the Annual Symposium, on your homepage, and online**

*Academic Forum members receive favorable rates on exhibition at the AMIA Annual Symposium. Members of AMIA's Academic Forum are entitled to the discounted rate of $700 for an inline booth (corner booths are $900). This does not include Affiliate or Emerging Program members of the Academic Forum. All other exhibitors from academic training programs that are not members of AMIA's Academic Forum must pay the $2,600 ($2,800 for corner) rate.

**AMIA TV opportunities require additional costs to Academic Forum members. However, planning, scheduling, production, editing, and post-production are synchronized for completion by the opening of the Annual Symposium, at significantly lower rates negotiated by AMIA for its Forum members.

AMIA Academic Forum Purpose, Policies, and Procedures