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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.

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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