AMIA president's message

AMIA president's column: AMIA and HIT policy activities

In my inaugural column in January 2011, I described the recent efforts by AMIA to assess its current and future roles, and the ways in which we are perceived by our members and by external groups. Insights from formal and informal surveys have led to a number of changes, including our new logo and branding, our new website, and our explicit efforts to broaden our membership within the informati...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

AMIA President's Awards, 2003.

Dr. Tang is recognized for his many contributions over the years to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and related activities. Specifically, Paul has served as a member of the current AMIA Executive Committee; as a member of the AMIA Board; as the chair of the Public Policy Committee; as chair of the Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA), representing AMIA; a...

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...

Presidents who value science.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 13 FEBRUARY 2009 843 COVER An image of Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, taken by the Terrain Camera aboard the SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft on 17 January 2008. Crater frequency distributions derived from such images yield ages of about 2.5 billion years for several volcanic deposits in this mare, indicating that volcanism on the lunar farside lasted about ...