2020 LEAD Fund Awardees

Hope Gray, MTS, BCC

Hope Gray is currently enrolled at University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Administration-Health Services PhD Program - Health Informatics track. Hope participated in the AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference (CIC) and several JAMIA Journal Clubs. Hope is a Board-Certified Chaplain and her training has included ethics, empathy and DEI over the years. She is also a member of several AMIA workgroups:

• AMIA First Look
• Clinical Information Systems
• Clinical Research Informatics
• COVID-19 Community & Discussion Forum
• Natural Language Processing
• Student Working Group
• Women in AMIA Discussion Forum

Jiancheng Ye

Jiancheng Ye is currently enrolled in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program at Northwestern University. Jiancheng is an AMIA student member and has participated in AMIA for a number of years. He has served as a reviewer for AMIA conferences. He has submitted 4 papers and more than 5 abstracts (podium abstracts and posters) to different AMIA conferences. Jiancheng is an active participant in AMIA activities including seminars, journal clubs and the student design challenge (accepted by AMIA 2020 Annual Symposium). He served as a student volunteer during the AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit. Jiancheng also submitted papers to JAMIA and JAMIA Open and served as a reviewer for JAMIA.