Recognizing outstanding contributions to HIMSS and the healthcare industry, HIMSS has named its 2014 award and scholarship recipients. The HIMSS Foundation and three HIMSS chapters provided seven scholarships to students enrolled in health IT and management systems degree programs.
Award winners are nominated in four award categories:
– industry service
– HIMSS service
– publications
– chapters.
All award and scholarship recipients will be honored at the HIMSS Awards Gala on Tuesday, April 14, from 6:30 – 9 p.m. CT, at the Chicago Hilton Grand Ballroom, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. during the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on April 12–16, in Chicago, Ill.
The 2014 HIMSS award and scholarship recipients appear below with a description of each award and scholarship:
CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. /CIO of the Year Award
– Sue Schade, MBA, FCHIME, FHIMSS
ACCE-HIMSS Excellence in Clinical Engineering and Information Technology Synergies Award
– Erin M. Sparnon, MEng
SHS-HIMSS Excellence in Healthcare Management Engineering/Process Improvement Award
– Jean Ann Larson, EdD, MBA, BSIE, FACHE, FHIMSS, DSHS, CLSSBB
Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
– Michelle R. Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP, FAAN
Physician IT Leadership Award
– William Hersh, MD, FACP, FACMI
Board of Directors Service Award
– Kathleen Kimmel, RN, MHA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
– Richard Lang, EdD, PMP, FHIMSS
– Scott MacLean, MBA, CHCIO, CPHIMS, FHIMSS (former chair)
– Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FAAN, FHIMSS
– Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA
– Carol Steltenkamp, MD, MBA, FHIMSS (former vice chair)
Book of the Year Award – Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction
by Raymond A Gensinger Jr., MD., CPHIMS, FHIMSS, editor; withJames Adams, MBA; James E. Gaston, MBA, FHIMSS; David Garets, FHIMSS; Genevieve B. Melton, MD, FACS, FASCRS; Kim Ott; György J. Simon, PhD, FHIMSS; Detlev H. Smaltz, PhD, FHIMSS, FACHE; Samuel VanNorman, MBA, CPHQ; and Nathaniel A. Wells, MHI
HIMSS Chapter of the Year Award
– Nebraska Chapter -Small
– Arizona Chapter- Medium
– Southern California Chapter- Large
Distinguished Fellows Service Award
– James Brady, PhD, MEd, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Founders Leadership Award
– Susan Vaughn, MBA, BSN, RN-BC, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMS
John A. Page Outstanding Service Award
– Patricia Dombrowski, MA
Outstanding SIG Member Leadership Award
– Michele Clark
HIMSS Chapter Leader of the Year Award
– Kevin Conway
New Life Members
– William (Bill) Montgomery, LFHIMSS
– Brian Compas, LFHIMSS
2014 Scholarship Recipients
Foundation Scholarship Winners
Undergraduate
– Eno-obong Akpan, Clinical Health Informatics, Georgia State University
Master’s
– Vladimir Choi, MSc Candidate in Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University,(Sweden), with master’s thesis to be undertaken as a visiting student researcher at the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University
PhD
– Eric Weaver, Doctor of Healthcare Administration, Medical University of South Carolina
Richard P. Covert, PhD., LFHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems
– Benjamin D Schanker MD/MBA Candidate at Harvard Medical School/University of Oxford, Portland, Ore.
Chapter-sponsored Scholarship Winners
Northern California Chapter Scholarship
– Lauren Mock, BA in Public Health, minor in Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
South Florida Chapter Scholarship
– Matthew Spiller, MS in Health Informatics, Florida International University, Miami
Virginia Chapter Scholarship
– Mary Alemayehu, MS in Health Informatics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
