Saif Khairat receives AMIA Leadership Award

Congratulations to Saif Khairat, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar, on receiving the 2022 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Leadership Award.

Dr. Kairat is one of seven recipients of the award this year, which recognizes leaders for their commendable volunteer effort in creating significant additions to AMIA’s educational digital content, including the Health Informatics Essentials and AMIA Health Informatics Certification Review Course.

“It is my honor and privilege to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of these informatics leaders. These exceptional professionals in our field have demonstrated excellence in using informatics to transform health and healthcare. We applaud their tremendous achievements.”  

Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, FACS, FACMI, FAMIA, AMIA Board Chair and President, Vice President and Scientific Medical Officer, Intuitive Surgical and Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (from AMIA press release)

For more information, read the AMIA 2022 Signature Award and Leadership Award Recipients press release here.