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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Dr. Dolin received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California at San Diego, received his MD degree from University of California at Irvine, and did his postgraduate training in internal medicine at University of California at Los Angeles. His primary interests...

2006

Stephen Downs received his Bachelors degree in Applied Physics from Yale, and a Masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT. He joined the U.S. Department of Commerce as a program officer in the Technology Opportunities program of the National Telecommunications and Information...

2010

Dr. Downs received is bachelor’s degree in cellular biology and chemistry from the University of Colorado, and his MD from Stanford. He was also the first student to complete the Stanford Medical Informatics training program and received a master’s degree in medical...

2006

Joachim W. Dudeck is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Statistics, University Hospital Giessen, Germany. He received his MD from University of Heidelberg. He received additional training in physiology, internal medicine, medical statistics, and informatics at the Universities of...

2001

Dr. Dykes received her bachelor of science in Nursing from Fairfield University, a Masters in Nursing from NYU, and a doctorate in nursing informatics from Columbia. She joined Partners Healthcare in Boston in 2004 as corporate manager for nursing informatics and research. At the time of her...

2011
1992

Dr. Effken received her bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Hartford, a master’s in nursing, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Connecticut.

She worked as a staff nurse in several health care organizations and began her ‘‘informatics journey...

2005

After obtaining her degree at Sahlgrenska School of Nursing in Goteborg, Sweden, Dr. Margareta Ehnfors spent almost 20 years as Deputy Principal of Studies in the School of Caring Sciences, Vanersborg University College. She then returned to obtain her doctorate in nursing research at Uppsala...

2003

Jane G. Elchlepp holds the positions of Associate Professor of Pathology and Assistant to the Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University Medical Center. She was a member of the Kellogg Foundation funded AAMC Task Force on Integrated Medical Center Information Systems (IMCIS) which...

1988

Dr. Elkin received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Union College, his MD from New York Medical College, and was a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Research Fellow in medical informatics at the Laboratory of Computer Science at Mass. General Hospital. There he...

2006
2012

Professor Rolf Engelbrecht directs the National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg, Germany. He is a past president of the European Federation for Medical Informatics and past vice president of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and Artificial...

2005

David A. Evans is President, CEO, and Chief Scientist of CLARITECH Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He received AB degrees in German Intellectual History...

1999

R. Scott Evans is in the Department of Medical Informatics at Intermountain Health Care and is the Director of Research for the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LDS Hospital, and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Utah. Dr. Evans received his BS...

1997

Dr. Eysenbach received his MD degree from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard. At the time of election to the College he was a Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto and Senior...

2011
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1984

William R. Felts is Professor of Medicine in the division of Rheumatology at George Washington University Medical Center. He is a past president of SCAMC (1983-1984) and a member of its Board of Directors (1980-1988). While he was president of the American Society of Internal Medicine he...

1984

Dr. Fiszman received an MD degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, undertook residencies in Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, then emigrated to the US where he received a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He was a postdoctoral fellow at...

2011