Michael Ackerman

From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project

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Name: Michael Ackerman, Ph.D

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1985

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Degrees: Biomedical Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill

Current Position: NLM's Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications

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Professional Activities: Board of Directors of the Symposium for Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) from 1976 to 1988; program chair for the 9th SCAMC and Finance Chair for Medinfo'86; founding member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA); Editorial Boards of Telemedicine & e-Health, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Honors and Awards: Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 1992; 2008 National Library of Medicine Board of Regents Award, 2006 American Telemedical Association Decicated Service Award, 1998 Johns Hopkins University Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award, 1997 Government Technology Leadership Award, 1996 National Institutes of Health Director's Award, the 1996 Friends of the National Library of Medicine Public Service Award, the 1996 Satava Award for Medical Applications of Virtual Reality, the 1995 Public Health Service Special Recognition Award, the 1994 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Dedicated Service Award, the 1993 and 2003 American Medical Informatics Association President's Awards, the 1993 Health Sciences Communications Association Special Achievement Award, and the 1992 National Institutes of Health Award of Merit. His work on the Visible Human Project was nominated as a finalist for a 1995 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in Software and a 1996 Smithsonian Award for Information Technology.

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