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Education & Mentorship

Lawrence Fagan
For exemplary shaping of informatics training and the field's foundational curriculum.
2026
Charles Friedman
For exemplary leadership in informatics education and the Learning Health System vision.
2022
William (Bill) Hersh
For exemplary leadership in the field of biomedical informatics education.
2024
Kevin B. Johnson
For exemplary mentorship and leadership within ACMI and the informatics community.
2024

 

Policy & Governance

Milton Corn
For exemplary stewardship of biomedical informatics through NLM leadership and education.
2020
Don E. Detmer
For exemplary national health information policy leadership.
2020
Valerie Florance
For exemplary stewardship of national informatics research funding and workforce development.
2024
Lucila Ohno-Machado
Lucila Ohno-Machado For exemplary leadership in data sharing, privacy, and governance.
2023


Technical Innovation & Standards

Christopher Chute
For exemplary development of biomedical terminologies and phenotype standards.
2022
Robert A. Greenes
For exemplary innovation in clinical decision support.
2021
W. Ed Hammond
For exemplary advancement of EHR standards and interoperability.
2020
Stanley Huff
For exemplary stewardship of clinical terminology and interoperability standards.
2026
Casimir Kulikowski
For exemplary pioneering of AI methods in medical imaging and informatics.
2022
Kenneth Mandl
For exemplary innovation spanning real-time biosurveillance, patient-controlled records, and open health data platforms.
2026
Alexa McCray
For exemplary work in biomedical ontologies and consumer health vocabularies.
2022
Blackford Middleton
For exemplary leadership in large-scale clinical decision support system implementation and evaluation.
2025
Mark A. Musen
For exemplary leadership in biomedical ontologies and open scientific infrastructure.
2025
Justin Starren
For exemplary leadership in national-scale technical infrastructure for biomedical informatics.
2025


Research & Scholarship

Joan S. Ash
For exemplary qualitative research illuminating EHR use and work practices.
2021
Wendy Chapman
For exemplary advances in clinical NLP for healthcare.
2023
Bonnie Kaplan
For exemplary scholarship at the intersection of informatics, ethics, and social context.
2026
Ross Koppel
For exemplary scholarship on health IT safety and sociotechnical impact.
2020
Vimla L. Patel
For exemplary leadership in cognitive informatics and discipline-shaping interdisciplinary research.
2025
Dean Sittig
For exemplary scholarship on the sociotechnical safety of health information technology.
2026
Charlene Weir
For exemplary contributions to human factors and clinical decision support in informatics.
2020

 

Global & Organizational Leadership

Marion J. Ball
For exemplary global leadership and advocacy in health and nursing informatics.
2021
Enrico Coiera
For exemplary leadership in clinical communication, patient safety, and global health informatics infrastructure.
2025
Bill Stead, Chief Strategy Officer VUMC
Dr. Stead works in his office collaborating with a colleague.  Portraits of him in Chapman quad. Shot for Duke Medical Center Magazine

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William W. Stead
For exemplary systems-level informatics leadership in healthcare transformation.
2021
Paul Tang
For exemplary patient-centered clinical informatics and decision support.
2023