American Medical Informatics Association

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the center of action for more than 4,000 health care professionals, informatics researchers, and thought-leaders in biomedicine, health care and science. AMIA is an unbiased, authoritative source within the informatics community and the health care industry. AMIA and its members are transforming healthcare through trusted science, education, and practice in biomedical and health informatics.

AMIA is the professional home of leading informaticians: clinicians, scientists, researchers, educators, students, and other informatics professionals who rely on data to connect people, information, and technology.

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AMIA supports a broad community for interdisciplinary professionals and students interested in informatics. AMIA actively supports five domains across a continuum from basic and applied research, into clinical practice, and out to the consumer and public health arena. AMIA bridges the knowledge and collaboration in each of five domains: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.

AMIA hosts several conferences each year, the biggest of which is the annual symposium. 

Dr. Melton-Meaux is the Chair and President of the AMIA Board of Directors (2024-2025).

American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)

Current Faculty Fellows

  • Constantin Aliferis, MD, PhD (2007)
  • Connie J. Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN (2004)
  • Martin LaVenture, MPH, PhD (2011)
  • Geneveive Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD (2015) (President, 2021-2022)
  • Stuart M. Speedie, PhD (2008)

Academic Forum

The Institute for Health Informatics is a member of the Academic Forum.  It is the AMIA group for biomedical and health informatics training programs.  The Academic Forum Members represent more than 90 premier institutions that offer a range of courses, degrees, and fellowships, reflecting the diversity of informatics research and the practice of translational bioinformatics, clinical research, consumer, clinical, and public health informatics.  Emerging and long-standing programs join the Academic Forum to collaborate, share best practices, and give back to their programs through informed knowledge. Stuart Speedie, PhD, FACMI was the Founding President (2010-2012).

Biomedical Health Informatics Academics Leaders (BMHI-ALC)

The purpose of the Community of Biomedical and Health Informatics Academic Leaders (BMHI-ALC) is to provide a forum in which individuals who are responsible for the leadership and management of academic units whose primary emphasis is Biomedical and/or Health Informatics can convene and share knowledge and best practices. The goals of the BMHI-ALC are to:

  • Enable knowledge and expertise sharing among individuals charged with the oversight and operation of biomedical and health informatics academic units;
  • Support the creation of benchmarking data, position statements, best practices, and other shared standards that can enhance the structure and function of Biomedical and Health Informatics academic units; and
  • Facilitate professional networking and informal mentoring relationships between the individuals involved in the above activities.

Constantin Aliferis, MD, PhD, FACMI is the Incoming Chair for 2025.