Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence is the highest honor presented by the American College of Medical Informatics. It is awarded annually to "an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics has made a lasting impression on healthcare and biomedicine". The award was established in 1993 to honor Morris F. Collen, the founder of biomedical informatics, and was also the recipient of the first year's award. Recipients of this award have made significant contributions to medical informatics research, education, or leadership, advancing healthcare through innovative uses of information technology.
Past recipients The award has been presented to mostly one recipient since 1993 each year except 1995, when it was not awarded.
1993 Morris F. Collen 1994 Homer R. Warner 1995 Not awarded 1996 G. Octo Barnett 1997 Donald A. B. Lindberg 1998 Robert S. Ledley 1999 Joshua Lederberg 2000 Jean-Raoul Scherrer 2001 Howard L. Bleich, Warner V. Slack 2002 Marion J. Ball 2003 W. Edward Hammond 2004 Clement J. McDonald 2005 Reed M. Gardner 2006 Edward H. Shortliffe 2007 William Stead 2008 Robert A. Greenes 2009 Betsy L. Humphreys 2010 Don E. Detmer 2011 William Tierney 2012 Nancy M. Lorenzi 2013 Peter Szolovits 2014 Charles Safran 2015 Jan H. van Bemmel 2016 David W. Bates 2017 Carol Friedman 2018 Patricia Flatley Brennan 2019 James J. Cimino 2020 Isaac Kohane 2021 Randolph A. Miller 2022 George Hripcsak 2023 Suzanne R. Bakken 2024 Atul J. Butte 2025 Christopher G. Chute
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