Special Features: Presentation of the Morris F. Collen Award to Reed McArthur Gardner, PhD

Election to the fellows college of the American Medical Informatics Association (The American College of Medical Informatics [ACMI]) recognizes significant and continuing contribution to the field of medical informatics. The College awards its highest accolade once a year, when appropriate, in recognition of lifetime achievement and singular contribution to the field. This award, the Morris F. Collen Award, recognizes those individuals, who, like Dr. Collen, have not only been noteworthy pioneers in the field, but whose professional and personal contribution and conduct over a lifetime are worthy of approbation and emulation.