AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award

AMIA recognizes the critical importance of fostering the development and discovery of new informatics science as well as the recognition and support of AMIA members who will grow the field and become the next generation of informatics leaders. This talent is nurtured in graduate and doctoral research programs.

Special thanks to the charter donors of the award.

The AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award offers high-value and prestigious recognition for the top doctoral dissertation each year that contributes to the science of informatics in any biomedical application domain or domains. In 2016 JAMIA published some suggested guidelines for the preparation of high-quality dissertations in biomedical informatics.

Read the suggested guidelines

Award Prizes

Each of the two winners receives:

• Cash award ($7500 for first prize, $2500 for honorable mention)
• Semi-plenary presentation on his/her award-winning research
• Formal award presentation at the AMIA Annual Symposium
• AMIA Annual Symposium registration waived
• Travel and accommodation stipend
• Publicity

Past Winners

2020

• Maulik Kamdar, Stanford University [First Prize]
  Dissertation: ‘ A Web-Based Integration Framework Over Heterogeneous Biomedical Data and Knowledge Sources ’
• Sharon Davis, Vanderbilt University [Honorable Mention]
  Dissertation: ‘ Stabilizing Calibration of Clinical Prediction Models in Non-Stationary Environments: Methods Supporting Data-Driven Model Updating’

2019

• Travis Goodwin, University of Texas at Dallas [First Prize]
  Dissertation: ‘ Medical Question Answering and Patient Cohort Retrieval’
• Jessica (Jette) Lowell Henderson, University of Texas at Austin [Honorable Mention]
  Dissertation: ‘ Learning and Validating Clinically Meaningful Phenotypes from Electronic Health Data’

2018

• Bethany Percha, Stanford University [First Prize]
  Dissertation: ' Biomedical Text Mining From Context'
• Yonatan Halpern, New York University [Honorable Mention]
  Dissertation: ' Semi-Supervised Learning for Electronic Phenotyping in Support of Precision Medicine'

2017

• Rimma Perotte (Pivovarov), Columbia University [First Prize]
  Dissertation: 'Electronic Health Record Summarization over Heterogeneous and Irregularly Sampled Clinical Data'
• Yuan Luo, Northwestern University [Honorable Mention]
  Dissertation: 'Towards Unified Biomedical Modeling with Subgraph Mining and Factorization Algorithms'

Charter Donors

These individuals and groups doubled the impact of their donations as Charter Donor to the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award. Thank you!