ACMI Fellows
The College originated in 1984 when five pioneers in informatics decided to establish an honorific society to recognize expertise in biomedical Informatics. Today, there are nearly 300 Fellows, with 10-20 new Fellows elected each year when Voting Fellows of the College judge nominees during a formal election process. Use the search feature below to view the names of individuals who have achieved ACMI Fellowship, one of the highest honors in the field of informatics.
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Betty Chang earned a BS and MA in nursing from Columbia University’s Teachers’ College in 1961 and then worked as an academic nursing educator for 16 years, first at Queens College in New York and subsequently at San Francisco State University. While on the SF State faculty in the...
Dr Chapman earned her Bachelor's degree in Linguistics and her PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, then joined the faculty there. At the time of her election, she was an Assistant...
Homer Chin is the Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems at Kaiser Permanente Northwest and Assistant Professor in Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research at the Oregon Health and Sciences University. Dr. Chin received his BS degree with highest honors in bioengineering from the...
Henry Chueh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Codirector of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Laboratory of Computer Science, and Director of Informatics at the MGH Clinical Research Program and the MGH Cardiac Program. He is also a staff physician internist...
A 1980 graduate of Brown University, Christopher Cimino earned his MD from SUNY Stony Brook in 1994 and then completed residency training in internal medicine and neurology at Bronx Municipal Hospital and Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He then moved to Boston for a medical informatics...
Jim Cimino is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A 1977 graduate in biology from Brown University, he earned an MD from New York Medical College in 1981. He completed a residency in internal medicine at St....
Dr. Clancy received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and chemistry from Boston College and her MD degree from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. She undertook postgraduate training in internal medicine, and was a Kaiser Foundation fellow at the University of...
John Clarke received his BA at Wesleyan University in 1965 and his MD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then trained in general surgery at Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor from 1968 to 1975. After a fellowship in clinical...
Dr. Classen received his bachelor’s and MD degrees from the University of Virginia, undertook postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut, and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Utah. He then obtained a master’s degree in...
Paul D. Clayton is Professor and Director of the Center for Medical Informatics at Columbia University and Director of Clinical Information Systems at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. His early work was in pattern recognition in angiographic images, but over the past 15 years he has developed...
Fred Cohen is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, and Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and a partner at Texas Pacific Group. Dr. Cohen received his BS in molecular biochemistry and biophysics from Yale University, DPhil in...
Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH, is the National Director for Health Information Policy for Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Cohn earned both his BA and MPH degrees at the University of California, Berkeley and his medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He completed his postgraduate medical...
Enrico Coiera is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales. Dr. Coiera received a medical degree from the University of Sydney in 1982 and a PhD in computer science from the University of New South Wales in 1989...
Dr. Morris Collen has had a profound influence, not only on the creation of the field of informatics, but also on healthcare delivery and the creation of new models of payment and prevention. Dr. Collen’s remarkable career began in 1942 when he was selected by Dr. Sidney Garfield, a...
Ted Cooper is the National Director of Confidentiality and Security at Kaiser Permanente. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He received a BA and MD from George Washington University and completed a residency in...

