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AMIA is a community committed to the vision of a world where informatics transforms people’s care. Over the last 35 years, the use of informatics has grown exponentially to improve health and to make better healthcare decisions. Today, informatics is the key to accelerating the current goals of healthcare reform.

2021 If you are running for a working group position, please complete the following information and upload your photograph (TIFF or JPEG format, 150 dpi or less). As you submit information, click the “save draft’ button from time to time so you do not lose information that you already inputted [...]

The election process is now closed. The AMIA bylaws determine the process and timeline for our elections and we conduct our elections electronically. Online voting opens in early September and will contain full biographical information submitted by each nominee. An e-mail will be sent to all eligible members announcing the [...]

The AMIA New Investigator Award recognizes an individual for early informatics contributions and significant scholarly contributions on the basis of scientific merit and research excellence. This award is designed to be awarded to an assistant/associate professor level individual contributing promising findings to the field. Criteria Significant scientific productivity in informatics [...]

Dr. William (Bill) Stead has led the nation in thinking about how biomedical informatics methods and architectures can improve health care systems for decades. His ideas coupled with his leadership have been significant at the local and the national level. He was the first editor of the Journal of the [...]

The Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award recognizes a distinguished career with significant impact permeating the care of patients and the discipline of nursing. The Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award recipient will demonstrate the use of informatics to transform patient care; visionary leadership; goal impact; enduring contribution to professional practice, education [...]

The Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics recognizes an individual that has made a significant singular contribution or series of contributions over the course of a career exemplifying the expertise, passion, and spirit that Dr. Detmer has for health policy. Criteria Awarded to an individual at [...]

Dr. Lindberg's continuous commitment to the field has dramatically altered the scope and extent of informatics' practice and research. The Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics recognizes an individual at any stage of a career for a specific technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics in [...]

The AMIA Student Paper Competition is held annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium. Student papers are selected by the Scientific Program Committee and forwarded to the Student Paper Advisory Committee (SPAC) which nominates eight finalist papers for presentation during the meeting.

Past Winners 2021 Integration of NLP2FHIR Representation with Deep Learning Models for EHR Phenotyping: A Pilot Study on Obesity Datasets S. Liu, Mayo Clinic; Y. Luo, Northwestern University; D. Stone, N. Zong, A. Wen, Y. Yu, Mayo Clinic; L. Rasmussen, Northwestern University; F. Wang, J. Pathak, Cornell University; H. Liu [...]