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Student competition winners: SCAMC 1991
COMPUTERS
AND
BIOMEDICAL
RESEARCH
25, 313 (1992)
EDITORIAL Student
Competition
Winners:
SCAMC
1991
Each year since 198 1, the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) has featured a student competition in the form of original manuscripts submitted for presentation at the annual meeting. This issue of Computers and Biomedical Research includes the manuscripts presented by the six finalists in this competition for 1991. They are Lee Min Lau, Brad R. Farr, Michael M. Wagner, Giordano Lanzola, Christopher Cimino, and Nilesh L. Jain. The rules for accepting and judging manuscripts have changed several times since the competition was begun by Dr. Helmuth Orthner of George Washington University. Last year prizes were awarded for the best overall paper and for the best paper in two classifications, one for students who had spent one year or less in a formal informatics training program and the other for students more advanced in their training. Four finalists were chosen from the written papers in each category and the winners were judged by members of the Awards Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), which is chaired by Dr. Lawrence C. Kingsland of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. The award for the best overall paper is paid from a fund set up in honor of Martin N. Epstein, who was a productive researcher in medical informatics at the time of his death. The Martin Epstein awardee receives $1000. The first prize in each of the two categories is $500 and the second prize is $300. Applicants must specify their intent to enter their submitted manuscript in the competition at the time the manuscript is submitted for the SCAMC program. Since presentation by the authors at SCAMC 1991, these six manuscripts have been additionally reviewed for publication in Computers and Biomedical Research. Winning manuscripts from future SCAMC student competitions will also be considered for publication, as they usually represent significant contributions of new ideas to our field. HOMER
R. WARNER
313 OOlO-4809/92 $5.00 Copyright D 1992 by Academic Press. Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
AND
BIOMEDICAL
RESEARCH
25, 313 (1992)
EDITORIAL Student
Competition
Winners:
SCAMC
1991
Each year since 198 1, the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) has featured a student competition in the form of original manuscripts submitted for presentation at the annual meeting. This issue of Computers and Biomedical Research includes the manuscripts presented by the six finalists in this competition for 1991. They are Lee Min Lau, Brad R. Farr, Michael M. Wagner, Giordano Lanzola, Christopher Cimino, and Nilesh L. Jain. The rules for accepting and judging manuscripts have changed several times since the competition was begun by Dr. Helmuth Orthner of George Washington University. Last year prizes were awarded for the best overall paper and for the best paper in two classifications, one for students who had spent one year or less in a formal informatics training program and the other for students more advanced in their training. Four finalists were chosen from the written papers in each category and the winners were judged by members of the Awards Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), which is chaired by Dr. Lawrence C. Kingsland of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. The award for the best overall paper is paid from a fund set up in honor of Martin N. Epstein, who was a productive researcher in medical informatics at the time of his death. The Martin Epstein awardee receives $1000. The first prize in each of the two categories is $500 and the second prize is $300. Applicants must specify their intent to enter their submitted manuscript in the competition at the time the manuscript is submitted for the SCAMC program. Since presentation by the authors at SCAMC 1991, these six manuscripts have been additionally reviewed for publication in Computers and Biomedical Research. Winning manuscripts from future SCAMC student competitions will also be considered for publication, as they usually represent significant contributions of new ideas to our field. HOMER
R. WARNER
313 OOlO-4809/92 $5.00 Copyright D 1992 by Academic Press. Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.