AMIA Announces 2024 Signature Award Recipients

WASHINGTON, DC – The American Medical Informaticians Association (AMIA) is proud to announce the 2024 Signature Awards recipients. The following leaders will receive their awards at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium in San Francisco during the AMIA Awards Committee Meeting on November 11.

The AMIA Signature Awards program recognizes AMIA members at different stages of their careers for their significant contributions to the field of informatics. The Awards Committee Meeting is an opportunity to celebrate talent and highlight presentations of leadership, innovation, and professional achievement.

The Annual Symposium is the world’s premier meeting for research and practice of biomedical and health informatics. The work presented spans the spectrum of the informatics field: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics and public health informatics.

2024 AMIA Signature Awards

Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics

Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Kenrick D. Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN, FACMI

Professor of Informatics, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Nurse Scientist for Pediatric Data and Analytics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics

Christopher A. Longhurst, MD, MS, FACMI

Professor, Associate Dean, and Chief Clinical & Innovation Officer, UC San Diego Health

William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics

Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics

Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award

Susan C. Hull, MSN, RN, NI-BC, NEA-BC, FAMIA

Principal, Consumer Health Informatics, MITRE Labs, Health and Society Innovation Center

AMIA New Investigator Award

Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

AMIA Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award

First Prize

• Alice Tang, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
  Dissertation: Leveraging Clinical Data and Knowledge Networks to Derive Insights Into Alzheimer’s Disease

Honorable Mention

• Linying Zhang, PhD, Columbia University
  Dissertation: Causal machine earning for reliable real-world evidence generation in healthcare

Finalist

• Monica Agrawal, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Dissertation: Towards Scalable Structured Data from Clinical Text

• Sirui Ding, PhD, Texas A&M University
  Dissertation: Human-Center AI for Precision Medicine: Methods and Applications