Suzanne Bakken receives 2019 IMIA François Grémy Award

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) announced that Dr. Suzanne Bakken is the recipient of the 2019 IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence. IMIA is honoured to recognize the long-lasting contributions Dr. Bakken made through her research, education, development, and application of biomedical and nursing informatics and for her outstanding lifetime personal commitment and dedication to the field, both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Christoph Lehmann, the president of IMIA, will presentthe François Grémy Award of Excellence on Monday, August 25th at the openingceremonies of MedInfo 2019 in Lyon, France.

Dr. Bakken is the alumni professor of Nursing and professorof Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where she leads an NIH-fundedresearch center and training program. Her research is focused on promotinghealth and reducing health disparities in underserved populations through the applicationof innovative informatics methods. A major focus of her current grant portfoliois the visualization of healthcare data for community members, patients,clinicians and community-based organizations.

Dr. Bakken is a fellow and past-president of the AmericanCollege of Medical Informatics, a member of the National Academy of Medicine,an inaugural fellow of IMIA’s International Academy of Health SciencesInformatics, to name a few of the professional bodies she is involved with. Shehas published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and in 2019, she took the helm as editor-in-chiefof the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.