The AMIA Student Paper Competition is held annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium and at the Informatics Summit.
First place receives the Martin Epstein Award. Learn more about Martin Epstein and his contributions to the informatics community.
Current and Past Winners
Annual Symposium Student Paper Competition
First Place (Martin Epstein Award)
Adaptive Recruitment Resource Allocation to Improve Cohort Representativeness in Participatory Biomedical Datasets.
- Victor A. Borza et al, Vanderbilt University
Second Place
Leveraging Cluster Causal Diagrams for Determining Causal Effects in Medicine.
- Tara V. Anand et al, Columbia University Medical Center
Third Place
The Use of Large Language Models to Accelerate Literature Review Towards Digital Health Equity and Inclusiveness.
- Taylor B. Harrison et al, Mayo Clinic
Informatics Summit Student Paper Award
Understanding Clinical Trial Reports: Extracting Medical Entities and Their Relations
- Benjamin Nye, Jay DeYoung, Eric Lehman, Northeastern University; Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania; Iain Marshall, King’s College London; Byron Wallace, Northeastern University
History
Although AMIA offers awards to research contributions by students at many of its events, the oldest Student Paper Competition awards date back to the early days of one of AMIA’s predecessor organizations, the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC).
The first SCAMC meeting was held in Washington, DC (actually across the river at a hotel conference center in Arlington, VA) in 1977 and rapidly grew in size and influence. The group that organized the meeting was eventually incorporated as SCAMC, Inc. and held the meeting every year in the Washington, DC area. SCAMC was one of the three organizations (the others were the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI)) that came together to form AMIA in 1988. For the first few years of its existence, AMIA continued to call its annual symposium SCAMC, since that name had great familiarity in the informatics community. Since the mid-1990s, the SCAMC name has no longer been used and today we refer to this large meeting every autumn simply as the AMIA Symposium.
In 1981, the organizers of the SCAMC meeting decided to introduce a competition that would recognize and honor research by students. The first awards were given that year and have continued annually since that time, first at the SCAMC meetings and now at the AMIA Symposium. Learn more about early description of the award and the deliberations that led to its creation is available.