President's column: Intensifying our networking activities

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

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 ...

President's column: operational informatics - expanding the scope of our discipline

In 2012, the AMIA Board of Directors issued a white paper which defined biomedical informatics 1 and noted that '…iden-tifying new competency areas on an ongoing basis is especially important for a field that is rapidly changing in both its inform-atics and its biomedical and health aspects.' With the advent of the new medical board certification in Clinical Informatics and our efforts to devel...

President's column: AMIA - Expanding and Extending Our Reach

In my last editorial, I spoke of new beginnings and new opportunities for AMIA. As I mentioned at that time, we are on the cusp of a new decade in healthcare where informatics will contribute substantially to framing the delivery of healthcare. We are at the formative stages of the decade of inform-atics!! In an effort to support this development, AMIA is launching two new programs in 2013 whic...