Dr. John Hurdle presided over the presentation of awards.
Dr. Julio Facelli was presented with the Reed Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence. This award is chosen by the students. Sharanya Raghunath was presented with the Houtchens Award for best paper. This distinguished award includes a beautiful engraved clock and a $2000 cash prize.
In addition, the following individuals were celebrated today:
Massoud Arshadmansab
Committee member for the Reed Gardner Faculty for Excellence Award
Rick Bradshaw
SAC Committee chair
Philip Brewster
TA for Human-Systems Interactions, Healthcare Informatics, TA for Population & Public Health Informatics
Kailah Davis
Buddy for recruitment, 2011 IPHIE attendee, 2011-2012 Student Rep, TA for Foundations of Healthcare Informatics, TA for AMIA 10 x 10, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Jeffrey Duncan
Buddy for recruitment
Mark Ebbert
TA for Translational RIP, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Chris Fillmore
TA for Med for Engineers & Scientists
Antonio Garcia
Buddy for recruitment
Eungyoung Han
TA Stats for BMI, TA for Foundations of Bioinformatics, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Jordan Hulet
2011 IPHIE attendee, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Jason Jacobs
Buddy for recruitment, TA Clinical RIP, Population & Public Health Informatics, SAC member, committee member for Reed Gardner Faculty of excellence award
David Jones
Buddy for recruitment, TA Seminar all year
Yuling Jiang
Buddy for recruitment
Megha Kalsy
Buddy for recruitment, TA for Foundations of Healthcare, TA for Research Design
Sang-hoon Lee
Buddy for recruitment, TA Clinical RIP
Olga Patterson
2011 IPHIE attendee
Sharanya Raghunath
Buddy for recruitment, TA for Bioinformatics Data Integration & Analysis, TA Translation RIP, SAC committee member, Committee member for Reed Gardner Faculty of Excellence Award
Naresh Sundar Rajan
Buddy for recruitment, TA for Seminar all year,
Deepthi Rajeev
2011 AMIA booth volunteer
Douglas Rose
Graduate Fair booth assistant
Lou Ann Scarton
Buddy for recruitment, TA Journal Club, SAC committee member, admissions committee member, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Julien Thibault
Buddy for recruitment, TA for Clinical Informatics Extraction, TA for Pub Health RIP, 2010-2012 Student Rep
Liqin Wang
TA for Clinical & Pub Health Informatics Terminologies and Standards, 2011 AMIA Booth volunteer
Anthony Wong
2011 IPHIE attendee
Mingyuan Zhang
Buddy for recruitment