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AMIA presents a number of awards in recognition of special accomplishment in the field of informatics. There are three categories of AMIA awards: Signature Awards, Annual Symposium Awards, and Working Group Awards. Awards are usually presented at the Annual Symposium during events such as the Leadership Dinner, Opening Session, and Closing Session. A brief description of each award organized by awards category follows:
The Martin Epstein and Student Paper Awards Click here for list of past winners
AMIA New Investigator Award This award recognizes an individual for early informatics contributions and significant scholarly contributions on the basis of scientific merit and research excellence. The criteria for nomination include significant scientific productivity in informatics prior to reaching eligibility for fellowship in the College of Informatics; multiple significant scientific publications and demonstrated commitment to AMIA. Click here for list of past winners
Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award This 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, administration, research, and/or health policy; and a commitment to AMIA demonstrated through membership. Click here for list of past winners
Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics This award recognizes an individual at any stage of a career for a specific technological, research, or educational contribution that advances biomedical informatics. Dr. Lindberg's continuous commitment to the field has dramatically altered the scope and extent of informatics' practice and research. The work leading to a winner of this award will have been conducted in a not-for-profit setting, and the adoption of the particular advance by the informatics community will be on a national or international level. Click here for list of past winners
Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence In honor of Morris F. Collen, a pioneer in the field of medical informatics, this prestigious award is presented by the College of Informatics to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting impression on the field. The award is determined by the College's Awards Committee. Click here for list of past winners
Distinguished Paper Awards From a slate of candidate papers recommended by the Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, the Awards Committee will recognize five notable and distinguished papers from the Annual Symposium. Distinguished papers are awarded at Annual Symposium but contain no ordinal designation. Papers of the Student Paper Competition finalists are not eligible. Click here for list of past winners
Distinguished Poster Awards The Awards Committee will recognize between two and ten distinguished posters with awards presented at the Annual Symposium Closing Session. Posters are selected by the Annual Symposium Poster Committee and forwarded to a committee who judge nominated posters during poster sessions held at the Annual Symposium. Click here for list of past winners
The Homer R. Warner Award The Homer R. Warner Award is named for Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of informatics and the founder of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. A cash prize is awarded for the paper awarded at the AMIA Annual Symposium that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and experimental results documenting the value of these approaches. The candidate papers are recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, and the selection of the recipient is made by the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics. Click here for list of past winners
Diana Forsythe Award (POI-WG) Honors either a peer-reviewed AMIA paper published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium or peer-reviewed article published in JAMIA or other journals publishing medical informatics-related content that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe's work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences with a cash prize. Selection is determined by a sub-committee of the AMIA Awards Committee and the AMIA People and Organizational Issues Working Group, with the award presented annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium. Click here for list of past winners
Nursing Informatics Working Group Award (NI-WG) Honors a student who demonstrates excellence in nursing informatics and who has the potential to contribute significantly to the discipline of nursing and health informatics. Click here for list of past winners
The Harriet H. Werley Award (NI-WG) A cash prize is presented to the paper presented at the AMIA Annual Symposium with a nurse as first author that is judged to make the greatest contribution to advancing the field of nursing informatics. The candidate papers are recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, and the selection of the recipient is made by a special committee within the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group. Click here for list of past winners
Chairman's Club Award This award honors an AMIA member for outstanding membership recruitment during the Member Get A Member Campaign. The award is presented annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium Chairman's Club Reception. Click here for list of past winners
Leadership Awards AMIA Leadership Awards are given by the Chairman of the Board and the President and CEO for outstanding volunteer leadership and service to the association or for leadership in the field. The awards are presented at the AMIA Annual Symposium. Click here for list of past winners
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