Univ. of California Well being System’s Atul Butte to Obtain AMIA’s Collen Award

Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Information Scientist for the College of California Well being System, will probably be given the American Faculty of Medical Informatics’ Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence on the AMIA 2024 Fall Symposium in San Francisco in November. 

The award is given yearly in honor of Morris F. Collen, a thought chief within the discipline of medical informatics. It’s offered to a person whose private dedication and dedication to medical informatics has made an enduring impression on the sector. 

Butte serves because the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Well being Sciences Institute on the College of California, San Francisco.

Butte beforehand received AMIA’s William W. Stead Award for Thought Management in Informatics.

AMIA famous that Butte is a longtime chief in utilizing all sorts of information to drive higher resolution making and science. He embraced his UC Well being position utilizing information throughout the six well being methods within the state of California to create one thing profoundly impactful. Through the pandemic, this information helped inform selections not simply on the College of California, however throughout the state and the nation.

“His work combining the info units throughout the linked, but impartial, medical facilities has been nothing wanting visionary and transformative as UC drives operational enhancements throughout all pharmacies, care websites, 5 Nationwide Most cancers Institute-designated complete most cancers facilities, and extra,” AMIA mentioned. 

“ACMI is honored to acknowledge Dr. Butte’s profession, which has been outlined by unwavering dedication, super-human execution, and a powerful dedication to bettering affected person care by means of the work of biomedical informatics,” mentioned ACMI President Kevin B. Johnson, M.D., M.S., David L. Cohen College Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Pc and Data Science, Pediatrics, and Science Communication on the College of Pennsylvania, in a press release. “Atul begins with the passionate perception that information improves our understanding of well being and the supply of well being care. He works tirelessly to entry information and share its relevance to affected person and inhabitants considerations. An intentional huge thinker, he has been a good friend, mentor, and inspiration to hundreds — together with me.”