The Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the selection of Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado as the new Editor-in-Chief of the AMIA peer-reviewed informatics journal, JAMIA. Dr. Ohno-Machado is a faculty member of the University of California San Diego, where she is Professor and founding chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics. She has been an AMIA member since 2001 and is the most recent past Chair of AMIA's Annual Symposium, a premier forum that attracts several thousand informaticians.
In her new position, Dr. Machado will report to the AMIA Board of Directors through a Publications Committee. Her tenure as editor will start on January 1, 2011, and continue through December 31, 2014. Her term may be renewed for one additional four-year cycle if approved by the AMIA Board of Directors in November 2013.
Jointly published by AMIA and the BMJ Group, JAMIA is a bimonthly research publication that presents peer-reviewed articles conveying scientific results, innovations, reviews, analysis, and opinions related to basic research and applications of informatics methods to biomedicine and health. The journal provides a major channel, in print and online, for research in biomedical informatics, while also publishing articles that assist informaticians, computer scientists, life scientists, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and other health care professionals as they develop and apply biomedical and health informatics techniques and results to patient care, public health, human biology, teaching, research, administration and related policy.
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