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What does the future of the public health informatics workforce look like?

Join Brian Dixon, PhD, MPA, FACMI, FAMIA, on Oct. 27 from 2-3 PM ET for "Exploring the Public Health Informatics Workforce," a FAMIA Leadership Lounge webinar examining how national workforce data can reveal important trends, career pathways, and growth opportunities across the field of public health informatics.

✅ Sign up today: https://tinyurl.com/informaticsworkforce

This session offers practical insights for informaticians, leaders, educators, and workforce planners looking to better understand the skills and experiences shaping the profession today and in the years ahead.

Whether you work in public health, healthcare delivery, academia, industry, or government, you'll gain valuable perspectives on the current and future public health informatics workforce.

Curious about how to drive better outcomes across the COPD care spectrum?

Join us on October 15 from 2-3 PM ET to explore how informatics can help translate evidence-based COPD guidelines into actionable workflows.

During this webinar, Meghan A. Walker, Sanofi's Associate Director of Health Informatics Technology, will outline:

✔️ Opportunities to improve COPD management through EHR-enabled clinical decision support
✔️ Strategies to reduce care variation through standardized workflows and pathways
✔️ How to strengthen care transitions, discharge planning, and follow-up coordination

Save your seat today: https://tinyurl.com/optCOPDcare

Looking to grow your network, gain career insights, or give back through mentorship?

Join the Women in AMIA Mentoring Event at the AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium in Dallas! This interactive networking event connects informaticians across all career stages for meaningful conversations, professional development, and lasting connections.

📅 November 10, 2026
🕖 7:00–8:30 PM
📍 Hilton Anatole, Dallas

Sign up as a mentor, mentee, or both by October 14: https://forms.gle/m5sVe2aSESY85hk3A

Healthcare AI is entering a new phase as organizations focus on scaling adoption, strengthening governance, and measuring impact. We're pleased to welcome Nabla as a Platinum Sponsor of , where they'll be joining conversations on the future of clinical AI and healthcare informatics.

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What does the digital backbone of an AI-ready health system require?

Join us on Oct 8 from 1-2 PM ET for a discussion between three informatics leaders that unpacks how organizations can connect structured and unstructured data, improve semantic consistency, preserve identity, provenance, and clinical context, and govern privacy, consent, equity, and appropriate use, led by moderator Russell Leftwich, MD, FAMIA, of InterSystems.

You'll hear practical perspectives on what research and implementation experience reveal about data readiness, AI evaluation in context, and trusted adoption with greater confidence, consistency, and accountability.

Sign up today: https://tinyurl.com/aireadyhealthsystems

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award:

🏆 First Prize: Tara V. Anand, PhD, Columbia University
Her "coarse" causal diagrams group related variables, opening the door to practical, transparent causal inference with high-dimensional clinical data.

🌟 Honorable Mention: Ran Xu, PhD, Emory University
Her trustworthy, retrieval-augmented machine learning methods help digital health systems deliver predictions clinicians can understand, rely on, and use.

Named for informatics and AI-in-medicine pioneer Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD, the award celebrates doctoral work that moves the science of informatics forward.

See Drs. Anand and Xu present their research at , November 7–11 in Dallas.

Discover what makes their work stand out: https://amia.org/news-publications/amia-announces-2026-shortliffe-doctoral-dissertation-award

Don't miss tomorrow's Director Candidate Forum!

Join us at 5:00 PM ET on Oct. 1 to hear firsthand introductions, backgrounds, and perspectives from this year's candidates.

Save your seat: https://tinyurl.com/AMIADirectorCandidates

📢 Tune into the latest AMIA Unpacked episode: https://amiapodcast.podbean.com/e/from-data-to-action-building-smarter-learning-health-systems/

Host Karmen Williams, DrPH, MBA, MSPH, MA, CPH, welcomes Dr. Danielle Shin, assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Shin shares how her background in emergency and mental health nursing led to research focused on closing gaps in su***de prevention care, including her work implementing an app-based safety planning intervention in emergency departments. The conversation examines how learning health systems use continuous cycles of data, evidence, and practice to improve care, and how AI could accelerate that learning.

This episode is sponsored by Oracle Health & Life Sciences.

🚨 AMIA Members: Vote Now for the Board of Directors!

Voting is now open for the AMIA Board of Directors and the leadership of select special member segments. Make your voice heard and vote for AMIA's future!

Learn More and Vote Today: https://amia.org/about-amia/leadership-and-governance/amia-elections-and-nominations-2026