Several members of the health technology community will receive an AAMI award or scholarship and be recognized during the 2020 AAMI Exchange, June 12–15 in New Orleans, LA. Each year, AAMI and the AAMI Foundation recognize health technology’s best and brightest for their leadership, dedication, and contributions to AAMI and their fields.
“Together, these clinicians, healthcare technicians, engineers, standards volunteers, young professionals, and students are advancing the field of healthcare technology and improving patient outcomes,” said AAMI President and CEO Rob Jensen. “It’s the honor of AAMI and the AAMI Foundation to celebrate these individuals for their achievements and to thank them for inspiring us all to push harder for safe and effective health technology.”
This year’s winners are:
- The AAMI Foundation’s Laufman-Greatbatch Award: Michael Scholla, DuPont Medical Packaging
- The AAMI Foundation & ACCE’s Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award: Frank Painter, University of Connecticut
- The AAMI Foundation & Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Solution Award: Samuel Gurmu, University of Maryland Medical Center
- The AAMI Foundation & TRIMEDX John D. Hughes Iconoclast Award: George Mills, Jones Lang & LaSalle
- AAMI & Becton Dickinson’s Patient Safety Award: Michelle Jump, MedSec
- AAMI’s HTM Leadership Award: Kurt Finke, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- AAMI & GE Healthcare’s BMET of the Year Award: Nicholas Grecco, Baycare Health, Morton Plant North Bay Hospital
- AAMI’s Young Professional Award: Angela Bennett, TRIMEDX / Ascension Borgess Health
- The Spirit of AAMI Award: Steven Baker, Oregon Health and Science University
- AAMI’s HTM Association of the Year Award: New England Society of Clinical Engineering
- Standards Developer Award: Daniel J. Cooke, Boston Scientific; Theodore Heise, MED Institute, and Dennis Jenke, Triad Solutions; and Changfu Wu, Food and Drug Administration
- The AAMI–HSEA Health Systems Engineering Scholarship: Rima Viradia, Baystate Medical Center, University of Connecticut
- AAMI Foundation Michael J. Miller Scholarship: Isha Arora, Cornell University; Mutegki Baguma, South Hills High School; Jacqueline Bertan, University of Connecticut; Taylor Dade, Columbia University; Shelby Johns, University of Connecticut; Jonathan Low, St. Petersburg College; Darian Napolean, Harvard University; Joseph Rowan, Texas State Technical College; Emily Sizemore, University of Connecticut; and Rudolph Wagner, Texas State Technical College
For detailed information about each award and scholarship recipient, click here.