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Awards, Fellowships for Students and Faculty
Awards:
Bruce A. Houtchens, MD Award in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine
The award and prize of $2,000 is given to the winner of a paper competition. Students are invited to submit papers expressing original ideas and reasonably complete research or development efforts in the areas of biomedical informatics, health informatics or telemedicine, which is broadly defined as the application of computer, communication, or information technology to health care. The papers can be papers previously submitted to journals and other entities. Any student attending the University of Utah is eligible to apply.
Homer R. Warner Award
The award is named for Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of informatics and the founder of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. This award is presented for the paper that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and presents experimental results documenting the value of these approaches. The award and $1,000 prize are given at the Fall Meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Fellowships:
John D. Morgan Fellowship
The John D. Morgan Fellowship is a cash award presented each year to a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. The award is based on a study by the fellowship committee of the applicants' transcripts, bio sketchs, recommendations by the applicants' supervisory committees and manuscripts submitted by the student. The award is presented at a seminar in October to the PhD student selected by the committee as the student conducting the "best" research work during their final year of studies.
FOR FACULTY
Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence
The Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence was established in 2005 to acknowledge the contributions of faculty members to the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing Informatics. The award was created by students to acknowledge the achievements of faculty members in the areas of teaching, mentoring, and service to the departments. The award is given annually after a competitive nomination and decision process supervised by a committee of students.
Download a detailed description and nomination form
(Nomination form in MS Word Format)
For further information, please contact:
Jo Ann Thompson
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah School of Medicine
26 South 2000 East, Ste. 5700 HSEB
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5750
Tel.: (801) 581-4080
Fax: (801) 581-4297
E-mail: joann.thompson@hsc.utah.edu