AMIA Announces Inaugural Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners
Bethesda, Md. (PRWEB) October 20, 2017 -- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Doctoral Dissertation Award. The winners will be recognized at the AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium, taking place Nov. 4 – 8, in Washington, D.C., and will present their doctoral work in a semi-plenary session at the meeting.
The judging committee received one nomination from each of 19 institutions and selected six finalists. The first prize receives $7,500 and the honorable mention receives $2,500.
First Prize
Rimma Perotte (Pivovarov), Columbia University
Dissertation: “Electronic Health Record Summarization over Heterogeneous and Irregularly Sampled Clinical Data”
Honorable Mention
Yuan Luo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation: “Towards Unified Biomedical Modeling with Subgraph Mining and Factorization Algorithms"
The two winners will give their presentations on Nov. 6 at 10:30 a.m. at the Washington Hilton.
“AMIA is proud to recognize the rise of new informatics science,” said AMIA Board Chair and Medical Director of IT Services at the University of Washington’s UW Medicine, Thomas Payne, MD, FACP, FACMI. “We know these researchers are the next generation of informatics leaders and we look forward to what they will bring to the field."
“I am delighted with the success of our inaugural year of the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award,” said Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, FACMI, AMIA Dissertation Award Task Force Chair and Senior Advisor to the Dean at the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University. “All nominations we received were excellent and competitive. I look forward to the future Doctoral Dissertation Award competitions and to shining a light on those advancing the field of informatics.”
The AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award offers high-value and prestigious recognition for the top doctoral dissertation each year that contributes to the science of informatics in any biomedical application domain or domains. An endowment fund was created to support the Doctoral Dissertation Award in perpetuity. Academic programs are limited to making one nomination annually. AMIA is grateful to the Charter Donors who offered support for the fund in its formative period (between the AMIA Symposium in 2015 and March 2016). Dr. Shortliffe also provided a 1:1 match for all donations up to $100,000. Additional donations can be made at AMIA.org.
The AMIA Annual Symposium draws 2,500 attendees for an event featuring 600+ papers, panels and posters. The AMIA Signature Awards program provides an opportunity for AMIA members at different stages of their careers to be recognized for significant contributions to the field of informatics.
AMIA, the leading professional association for informatics professionals, is the center of action for 5,400 informatics professionals from more than 65 countries. As the voice of the nation’s top biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA and its members play a leading role in assessing the effect of health innovations on health policy, and advancing the field of informatics. AMIA actively supports five domains in informatics: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.
Lisa Gibson, American Medical Informatics Association, +1 (301) 657-5909, [email protected]
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