The Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the selection of Dr. Suzanne Bakken as the new Editor-in-Chief of the AMIA peer-reviewed informatics journal, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Dr. Bakken is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She has published more than 300 scientific papers in more than 50 journals and has served as principal investigator for more than $29 million in research grants over the past 25 years. Dr. Bakken is a noted expert in applying informatics and data science methods to address health disparities affecting underserved and Latino communities.
The appointment, effective Jan. 1, 2019, brings Dr. Bakken full circle with the journal. She authored a paper published in the very first edition of JAMIA, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 1994: "Terms Used by Nurses to Describe Patient Problems: Can SNOMED III represent nursing concepts in the patient record?" In her new role, she will imbue JAMIA with the spirit of 'consequentialist informatics' - informatics that makes a difference in the real-world health challenges facing communities and society today, such as opioid addiction, Alzheimer's Disease, and caregiving burden.
Dr. Bakken has a vision for JAMIA as a multi-layered, interactive electronic knowledge resource that facilitates broad understanding of innovative thought and rigorous discovery and application in informatics and data science for health and biomedicine. JAMIA content must be translatable for a variety of audiences including practice, policy, education, industry, patients, and health care consumers.
Dr. Bakken has been active throughout the organisation as a member of the Board of Directors and chair of the AMIA 2000 Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee. She is also a fellow and current immediate past-president of the American College of Medical Informatics and is a recipient of the Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award (2006).
Dr. Bakken's research activities have support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the NLM. In 2010, she received the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research and she will be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in July 2018. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
The Editor-in-Chief works with the AMIA Board of Directors and a Journals and Publications Committee to ensure coordinated journal strategies. The current JAMIA Editor-in-Chief, Lucila Ohno-Machado, closes her term in December 2018 after two successful 4-year terms. Dr. Bakken's term begins on Jan. 1, 2019, and continues through Dec. 31, 2022, with an option for an additional 4-year term.
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