Rashmi Mishra, Megha Kalsy and Mingyuan Zhang, Graduate Students in Biomedical Informatics have been awarded the 2013 Orthner Travel Assistance Award.This award was made possible by Ms. Carolyn Orthner in honor of her beloved husband, Dr. Helmuth F. Orthner, PhD, FACMI, who passed away in March 2009. The purpose of this award is to provide support to worthy International Biomedical Informatics students who have been accepted to present at a meeting, or have been invited to participate at a meeting or other scholarly activity. Rashmi Mishra will be presenting at the 2013 AMIA Symposium on her project titled: Rashmi Mishra, DDS, MPH; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD; Halil Kilicoglu, PhD; Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, PhD; Marcelo Fiszman, MD, PhDDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA; Natural Language Processing Group, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAMegha Kalsy will be presenting at the 2013 AMIA Symposium on her project titled: Megha Kalsy, MS, Natalie Kelly, MBA, Jennifer H. Garvin, PhD MBA RHIADepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; VA Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UTMingyuan Zhang will be presenting at the 2013 AMIA Symposium on her project titled: Mingyuan Zhang, Ferdinand T. Velasco, MD, R. Clayton Musser, MD, MS3, Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhDUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX;3 Duke University Health System, Durham, NC