Shortliffe succeeds Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, who led AMIA since 2004, fostering excellence, growth, and innovation in the profession and the association.

Detmer helped develop a fundamental transformation of AMIA to become the professional home for biomedical and health informatics by significantly enhancing AMIA’s initiatives and programs, improving operational efficiency and quality, expanding its national and global presence, and solidifying the strength and relevance of the AMIA brand.

“Ted Shortliffe is exactly the right member of our community to pick up the reins of leadership for AMIA upon my retirement”, notes Dr. Detmer. “He and I will begin working together early in the new year so the transition will be smooth and the tremendous growth trajectory of AMIA will continue. There has been uniform excitement about this appointment for obvious reasons,” Detmer concludes.

CHAIR-ELECT
Term of office for chair-elect is January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009
Term of office for chair is January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2011

Nancy Lorenzi
Justin Starren

DIRECTORS
Terms of office for four directors is January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2011

Atul Butte
Connie Delaney
R. Scott Evans
John Holmes
Gilad Kuperman
Steven Labkoff
Anna McDaniel
Blackford Middleton

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently launched a 5-year cooperative agreement with AMIA funded by the National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) and the Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ODCDC). The purpose of the program is to strengthen the breadth and depth of the public health workforce by providing training in public health informatics. As a first step AMIA is accepting applications from public health workers at state or local public health agencies interested in participating in informatics training.

Courses are offered in two parts: an 11-12 week Web-based component and a one day in-person session held in conjunction with an AMIA Spring or Fall meeting. Tuition fees for the course are paid by the CDC. Participants are responsible for arranging and paying for their own transportation, hotel and food for the in-person session. This is not included in tuition. Participants are responsible for any out of pocket costs associated with the course (such as travel for the face to face meeting, books, internet fees, and telephone costs).

Please note that applicants should have a bachelor’s degree and relevant work experience in the health or medical field with at least 3-5 years prior work experience in public health. Interested public health workers should download and complete the application form here in accordance with the application instructions and deadlines. Course enrollment may be limited by space constraints. Since this is the first offering of this program we do not yet know how many people will be applying. Applicants will be notified of the enrollment/admission decision as soon as possible.

Additional Information:
Contact Meryl Bloomrosen at meryl@amia.org