The AMIA President's Award recognizes individuals who have devoted unusual personal effort to the development of the association and the field of medical informatics.
The recipients for 1997 are:
W. Edward Hammond, Head of the Section of Medical Informatics at Duke University, in recognition of his dedicated work in the development of and promotion of medical informatics standards and his work as the champion of AMIA members and Working Groups.
Clement J. McDonald, Director of the Regenstrief Institute and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, in recognition of his seminal work in development of medical informatics standards. His pioneering work in developing and promoting HL-7 and organizing the LOINC standards group have been key to the sharing of electronic medical information.
William W. Stead, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Director of the Informatics Center at Vanderbilt University, in recognition of exceptional dedication and service to AMIA as the founding and continuing editor of JAMIA, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Under his leadership, JAMIA has become “the” reference journal for medical informatics.