New editor-in-chief to take reins at JAMIA
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors has selected Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, as the new editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Ohno-Machado is a faculty member of the University of California San Diego, where she is professor and founding chief of the division of biomedical informatics. She has been an AMIA member since 2001 and is the most recent past chair of AMIA’s annual symposium.
Ohno-Machado is charged with positioning JAMIA, a bi-monthly research publication, as a premier scientific journal in biomedical and health informatics, at a time when informatics as a specialty is experiencing growth. Her tenure as editor in chief will start Jan. 1, 2011, and continue through Dec. 31, 2014. Her term may be renewed for one additional four-year cycle if approved by the AMIA board of directors in November 2013.
Ohno-Machado is a faculty member of the University of California San Diego, where she is professor and founding chief of the division of biomedical informatics. She has been an AMIA member since 2001 and is the most recent past chair of AMIA’s annual symposium.
Ohno-Machado is charged with positioning JAMIA, a bi-monthly research publication, as a premier scientific journal in biomedical and health informatics, at a time when informatics as a specialty is experiencing growth. Her tenure as editor in chief will start Jan. 1, 2011, and continue through Dec. 31, 2014. Her term may be renewed for one additional four-year cycle if approved by the AMIA board of directors in November 2013.