A tribute to Karen Greenwood and her contributions to the American Medical Informatics Association

Christoph U Lehmann; Patricia F Brennan; Don E Detmer; Gretchen P Jackson; Lucila Ohno-Machado; Charles Safran; Jeffrey J Williamson; Edward H Shortliffe

doi:10.1093/jamia/ocac039

A tribute to Karen Greenwood and her contributions to the American Medical Informatics Association

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Apr 13;29(5):1011-1013. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocac039.

Authors

Christoph U Lehmann¹, Patricia F Brennan², Don E Detmer³, Gretchen P Jackson^{4

5}, Lucila Ohno-Machado⁶, Charles Safran⁷, Jeffrey J Williamson⁸, Edward H Shortliffe⁹

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Informatics Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
² National Library of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
³ Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
⁴ Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, California, USA.
⁵ Departments of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
⁶ Department of Biomedical Informatics, UCSD Health, La Jolla, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Department of Education and Member Services, American Medical Informatics Association, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
⁹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

After 25 years of service to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Ms Karen Greenwood, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, is leaving the organization. In this perspective, we reflect on her accomplishments and her effect on the organization and the field of informatics nationally and globally. We also express our appreciation and gratitude for Ms Greenwood's role at AMIA.

Keywords: American Medical Informatics Association; Karen Greenwood; biomedical informatics.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association 2022. This work is written by a US Government employee and is in the public domain in the US.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Administrative Personnel / history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Medical Informatics* / history
Societies, Medical* / history
Societies, Medical* / organization & administration
United States

Personal name as subject

Karen Greenwood