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University of Utah Shines at AMIA 2018

Many of our very talented students, alumni, and faculty had a strong showing in almost all award categories at the AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium.

AMIA Awards – October 2018

  • Martin Epstein Award and 1st place Student Paper Award Winner: Thomas Reese (PhD student). Also, Ken Kawamoto (faculty), Guilherme Del Fiol (faculty), Frank Drews (faculty), Teresa Taft(alumna) Heidi Kramer (technical staff), Charlene Weir (faculty)

  • Finalists in student design challenge: Fredo Louis (PhD student) and Janette Vazquez PhD student)

  • Distinguished Poster Awards: Rosalie Waller (PhD student), Patrick Alba (alumnus), Scott DuVall (alumnus), Olga Patterson (alumnus), Heidi Kramer (technical staff), Valli Chidambaram (alumna), Damian Borbolla (faculty), Ken Kawamoto (faculty), Guilherme Del Fiol (faculty), Charlene Weir (faculty)

  • Distinguished Paper Awards: Omar Bouhaddou (alumnus), Liqin Wang (alumnus)

  • 2nd Place Harvard n2c2 clinical NLP challenge (Track 2: Adverse Drug Events and Medication Relationship Extraction in EHRs): Jianlin Shi (PhD student), Alec Chapman (alumnus), Jianyin Shao (NLM fellow), Deep Nag (technical staff), Olga Patterson (alumna), John Hurdle (faculty)

  • Newly Elected Members of ACMI: – Catherine Staes (alumna) and David Vawdrey (alumnus)

  • AMIA Leadership Award (led creation of FAMIA - Fellows in AMIA): Jeff Nielsen (alumnus)

  • Homer R. Warner Award: Scott Narus (faculty) and Peter Haug (faculty)