Judy Ozbolt, Ph.D., R.N., Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing and Biomedical Informatics, is the first woman to be named president-elect of the American College of Medical Informatics.
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Ozbolt to head informatics organization
Judy Ozbolt, Ph.D., R.N., Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing and Biomedical Informatics, has been named president-elect of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the first nurse and the first female to lead the organization.
The ACMI is a college of fellows and international associates elected to membership on the basis of their significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics. The roughly 300 members represent a broad range of disciplines, including nurses, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, engineers, librarians and basic scientists from health care, academia, industry and government.
Ozbolt has served three terms on ACMI's governing executive committee and multiple times as a member of the scientific program committee for the annual ACMI symposium.
She was a founding director and served three subsequent terms on the board of directors for the ACMI's parent organization, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Ozbolt will serve as president-elect of ACMI in 2005 and 2006, as president in 2007 and 2008, and as past president in 2009 and 2010.
Previous presidents from Vanderbilt include William W. Stead, M.D., associate vice chancellor for Health Affairs and professor of Biomedical Informatics (1998-2000), and Randolph A. Miller, M.D., Donald A. B. and Mary M. Lindberg Professor of Biomedical Informatics (2003-2004).
In 2001, Ozbolt was named the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor.
The National Library of Medicine funds her research on information resources for quality improvement and evidence-based practice. The annual Nursing Terminology Summit meetings, which she convenes, have contributed substantially to standards adopted by national and international organizations, and commercial applications are now incorporating innovations derived from the Summit.
Ozbolt is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.