The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the largest professional society for biomedical informatics, supporting the current and next generation of informatics professionals through education, training, accreditation, and certification.
Multiple faculty members participate in AMIA. Dr. Hadi Kharrazi and Dr. Christopher Chute are both Fellows at The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), a sub-group within AMIA, and Dr. Chute earned the status of Distinguished Fellow. Dr. Paul Nagy is the incoming chair of the AMIA Academic Forum and hosts a yearly dinner at the annual conference.
BIDS Student & Faculty Involvement
As always, BIDS students and faculty played starring roles at the 2023 AMIA conference:
- Three faculty members gave presentations: Dr. Paul Nagy, Dr. Hadi Kharrazi, and Dr. Harold Lehmann.
- A postdoctoral fellow gave a lecture on the standardization of the whole observational research pipeline for large-scale studies using the OMOP CDM and led an interactive demo of the OHDSI tool, Atlas.
- A masters’ student presented research conducted with Dr. Lehmann proposing Applicability Area as a tool to assess the value of individual prediction models. Proper assessment of a given prediction model is a necessary precursor to its integration into practice and helps to ensure that the model will improve patient care.
- BIDS students took on critical responsibility, owning the AMIA dance night.