Noémie Elhadad, Sarah Rossetti Selected To
IAHSI 2023 Class of Academy Fellows

The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) recently announced its 2023 class of Academy Fellows, and two members of the Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics were included in the class. Chair and associate professor Noémie Elhadad and associate professor Sarah Rossetti were both selected as new fellows this year.

IAHSI, the Academy of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), serves as an honor society that recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally and is one of the highest honors in the field. This year 24 new Fellows were elected by the Academy and now join the prestigious

fellowship of their international peers, recognized for their international and substantial achievements in the field.

“It is an honor and pleasure to announce the Academy’s Class of 2023 Fellows, one of the highest honors in the international field of biomedical and health informatics,” said Dr. Kaija Saranto, President of IAHSI. “On behalf of all the Academy and its Board, we welcome and look forward to their contributions to the Academy’s ongoing initiatives, objectives and goals.”

The IAHSI Fellows will gather for their annual Plenary session on 9th of July at MedInfo 2023, IMIA’s biannual World Congress on Health and Medical Informatics being hosted by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, AIDH.

2023 Class of IAHSI Members

Anita Burgun, IMIA EFMI Region
Catherine Chronaki, IMIA EFMI Region
Brian E. Dixon, IMIA North American Region
Dawn Dowding, IMIA EFMI Region
Prashila Dullabh, IMIA North America Region
Noémie Elhadad, IMIA North America Region
Shaun Grannis – IMIA North American Region
Usman Iqbal, IMIA APAMI Region
Xiaoqian Jiang, IMIA North America Region
Petra Knaup-Gregori, IMIA EFMI Region
Diego Mauricio López Gutiérrez, IMIA LAC Region
Zhiyong Lu, IMIA North America Region
Yuan Luo, IMIA North America Region
Juha Mykkänen, IMIA EFMI Region
Charly Otero, IMIA LAC Region
Guy Paré, IMIA North American Region
Thomas H. Payne, IMIA North American Region
Sarah Rossetti, IMIA North American Region
Ann Kristin Rotegård, IMIA EFMI Region
Binyam Tilahun, IMIA HELINA Region
Maxim (Max) Topaz, IMIA North American Region
Daniel Vreeman, IMIA North American Region
Colin Walsh, IMIA North American Region
Hua Xu, IMIA North American Region

A new class of Fellows are elected to the Academy each year, nominated by the current Academy Fellows; criteria on accomplishments, recognition and global engagement are carefully considered. Please visit our webpage, IAHSI Nomination Process for New Fellows,  for more information. The deadline for the 2024 Class of Fellows is March 1, 2024.

About IAHSI

The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), established in 2017, is the Academy of the International Medical Informatics Association’s (IMIA).   The Academy is similar to other national academies of sciences. It seeks to nominate and elect those whose contributions in informatics are recognized internationally. The goal is to promote the dissemination of knowledge and best practices, foster new ideas, and encourage worldwide collaboration and sharing of expertise and resources.

For more information about the Academy, please visit website https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/iahsi/.

About IMIA
As the world body for health and biomedical informatics and an ‘association of associations”, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), provides informatics leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary health-focused community and to policy makers, to enable the transformation of healthcare in accord with the world-wide vision of improving the health of the world population.  For more information, please visit website https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/.

For further information, please contact
Elaine Huesing, IMIA CEO
imia@imia-services.org