AMIA Meetings and Events

AMIA Annual Symposium

Held each fall, the AMIA Annual Symposium is the world’s most comprehensive annual meeting on biomedical and health informatics. The Annual Symposium provides a wide range of formats for education and discussion. Papers and posters present peer-reviewed state-of-the-art scientific and technical work. Demonstrations and Partnerships in Innovation allow for comprehensive presentation of advanced systems, including new developments and innovative uses of commercial systems. Panels, keynote presentations, tutorials, and workshops bring together thought leaders for in-depth and active audience exchange about critical issues of the day.

The symposium continues to flourish as the premier forum for education in clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, public health informatics, and translational bioinformatics. The symposium brings together an amazing network of informatics experts that span the spectrum of foundations and applications of informatics. Each year, the meeting brings together over 2,000 professionals and students from an array of occupational settings—academic institutions, community-based organizations, government agencies and the military, health care facilities, industry, international health, private practice and research facilities.

AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

The summit is an indispensable gathering place for translational bioinformatics research and development worldwide. With the completion of human and model organism genomes, and the increasing utilization of biomedical computational methods, translational bioinformatics is evolving rapidly into a complex multidisciplinary field encompassing nearly all areas of biological, biomedical and clinical research. Indeed, biomolecular and clinical informatics, statistical genetics and genomic medicine, are poised to jointly play an increasing role in accelerating the translation of knowledge discovery from genome scale studies to effective treatment and tailored disease management and health care. The summit covers the specific and tractable needs of translational bioinformatics and more importantly, identifies challenges facing this emerging research field showcasing the synergy between the clinical informatics and bioinformatics communities.

AMIA Spring Congress

The spring congress highlights several specific areas of endeavor or set of issues within informatics that will play a pivotal role in the transformation of the health system in the United States and globally. Our meeting tracks speak directly to how informatics and the use of health information technology can catalyze advances in clinical care, clinical research, public and population health, and translational bioinformatics.

The spring congress features a combination of provocative invited and submitted panels, presentations, and posters. While these tracks might stand alone as distinct meetings within the larger meeting, many attendees find sessions interrelated and wish to participate in more than one track. AMIA is at its best when our members and colleagues are active participants in our meetings and the spring congress is designed to showcase the expertise found within the organization truly making AMIA the professional home for biomedical and health informatics.

Other AMIA Meetings

AMIA hosts several other meetings during the year for focused groups within the organization.  AMIA's College, the American College of Medical Informatics is a college of elected fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. ACMI fellows meet each winter to discuss pressing issues of informatics. More information can be found by clicking here.

The Academic Forum is a membership unit within AMIA dedicated to serving the needs of post-baccalaureate biomedical and health informatics training programs. The Academic Forum was conceived by recognized leaders to establish a professional home for academic informatics within AMIA. Forum members meet each year to discuss a topical interest chosen by the members. More information can be found by clicking here.

AMIA's Annual Health Policy Conference is a by invitation only, multi-disciplinary stakeholder working meeting where AMIA engages public and private sector participants in a focused and thought provoking discussion. We identify a timely public policy topic and weigh the various ethical, political, technical, and social factors that impact the formulation of national policy and the role of informatics.  A report of the outcome of the meeting with policy recommendations is created as is our practice for these meetings.  We discuss how AMIA and other stakeholders can play a major role in setting direction for the future.  The majority of the meeting is spent discussing strategy and policy implications as well as technical issues and challenges. More information can be found by clicking here.

AMIA Endorsed Meetings & Events

HIMSS09
Nursing Informatics Symposium (April 4)
Physicians' IT Symposium (April 4)
April 4-8, 2009
Chicago, Illinois

Second Annual Healthcare Informatics Symposium
Center for Biomedical Informatics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
April 24, 2009

Meeting information can be downloaded by clicking here, and registration information can be found by clicking here. 

Medinfo 2010
International Medical Informatics Association
September 13-18, 2010
Cape Town, South Africa