Symposium Awards
AMIA provides a series of merit awards each year for research work submitted to its Annual Symposium through the rigorous submission and review process.
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.
Distinguished Poster Awards
The Awards Committee will recognize between two and ten distinguished posters with an award 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 the Monday and Tuesday AMIA 2008 poster sessions.
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 Medical Informatics at the University of Utah. A cash prize is offered 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 Medical Informatics.
Working Group Awards
Diana Forsythe Award
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.
Nursing Informatics Working Group Award
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.
Harriet H. Werley Award
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.
AMIA Signature Awards
The Signature Awards program provides an opportunity for AMIA members to be recognized for significant contributions to the field at different stages of their career. The Martin Epstein and Student Paper Awards The Martin Epstein and Student Paper Awards are issued in recognition of best student papers at the Annual Symposium. Student papers are selected by the Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee and forwarded to the Student Paper Advisory Committee (SPAC) who nominate eight finalist papers for presentation at the Student Paper Competition. Based on a combination of the written paper and oral presentation, the judges will select a first, second, and third place paper. If the first place paper is truly extraordinary, the SPAC awards the Martin Epstein Award.
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.
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.
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.
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 AMIA’s 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.
Awards will be presented at the Leadership Dinner and at the Opening and Closing Sessions.
