Bruce A. Houtchens, MD, Prize in Biomedical Informatics and Telemedicine
Sponsor: Family and Friends for Dr. Bruce A. Houtchens
Presentation includes: A gift and $2,000
The award recognizes the graduating student with the best expression of original ideas and research efforts in the application of computer, communication or information technology to health care.
Nomination and Selection Process:
The award’s recipient is the winner of the paper competition based on the criteria noted above.
History:
This award is named in memory of Bruce A. Houtchens, M.D., a surgeon, physicist, mathematician, and aeronautical and astronautical engineer. His main interests included trauma surgery/critical care, space medicine, and clinical application of telemedicine and medical informatics. The award was established to open new horizons of medical technology, and to seek better ways of integrating medical technology into medical education and clinical practice.
The Bruce A. Houtchens, M.D., Award in Medical Informatics and Telemendice is presented to the student who won the paper competition for the best expression of original ideas and research efforts in the application of computer, communication or information technology to health care.
Past Recipients:
2021
Janette Vazquez
2016
David E. Jones
2015
Chad M. Hodge
2014
Jason R. Jacobs
2013
Julien C. Thibault
2012
Sharanya Raghunath
2011
T. Elizabeth Workman
2010
Stephen Piccolo
2009
Gerald Bryce Christensen
2008
Guilherme Del Fiol
2007
Shannon Sims
2006
Jau-Huei Lin
2005
Christopher G. Maloney
2004
Nancy C. Nelson
2003
David P. Taylor
2002
Marcelo Fiszman
2001
Thomas Alan Oniki
2000
Charles J. Mullett
1999
Gregory A. Patton
1998
Robert Patterson
1997
Joseph D. Dalto