American College of Medical Informatics

American College of Medical Informatics
Abbreviation	ACMI
Formation	1984; 40 years ago
Type	NGO
Legal status	NPO
Purpose	Learned society
Headquarters	Bethesda, MD
Membership	300
Official language	English
President	Kevin Johnson
Key people	Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Past President; Peter Embí, President-Elect
Main organ	Inducted Fellows; Executive Committee
Website	https://www.amia.org/programs/acmi-fellowship

The American College of Medical Informatics^[1] (ACMI) is a college of elected fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. Initially incorporated in 1984, the organization later dissolved its separate corporate status to merge with the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI) and the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) when the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) was formed in 1989. The college now exists as an elected body of fellows within AMIA, with its own bylaws and regulations that guide the organization, its activities, and its relationship with the parent organization. The college is fiscally self-sufficient, and its officers prepare and submit its financial plan annually for approval by the AMIA Board of Directors.

History

The college was initially created using an election process that assured that the founding fellows would be elected by their peers. Five individuals, Marsden S. Blois, Morris F. Collen, Donald A. B. Lindberg, Thomas E. Piemme, and Edward H. Shortliffe, prepared a ballot of over 100 names of leaders in the field and sent the ballot to all listed individuals.^[2] Nominees were asked to vote for 50 colleagues to become the founding fellows, and in this way the initial set of 52 fellows was selected (three individuals were tied for the fiftieth place). The founding fellows then incorporated, elected officers, and initiated a process through which the existing fellows nominate and elect new fellows. Piemme handled office management out of the George Washington University Office of CME; Collen served as the initial interim leader though there were no formal officers until founding fellows elected its first president whose term began on January 1, 1987.

The number of people and international associates elected through the years has now reached close the 300 inducted Fellows of the ACMI, with approximately fifteen to twenty new fellows and international associates elected each year. Photographs of people elected through 1993 were published in the inaugural issue of JAMIA, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, in January 1994, and each year's class of newly elected fellows is published in JAMIA.

Presidents of the College
Name	Year Started
Marsden Blois	1987
Homer R. Warner	1989
Octo Barnett	1991
Edward H. Shortliffe	1993
Ed Hammond	1995
Robert Greenes	1997
William Stead	1999
Charles Friedman	2001
Randolph Miller	2003
Judy Ozbolt	2005
Daniel Masys	2007
Joyce Mitchell	2009
James J. Cimino	2011
Alexa T. McCray	2013
Suzanne Bakken	2015
Christopher G. Chute	2017
William Tierney	2019
Genevieve Melton-Meaux	2021
Kevin Johnson	2023