Titus Schleyer, alongside his collaborators, accepts the 2024 Leadership Award.
Titus Schleyer, DMD, MBA, PhD, and his colleagues on a working group focused on climate, health and informatics received the 2024 Leadership Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Schleyer is the group’s chair.
Schleyer and the other recipients accepted their awards on November 12 at the AMIA’s 2024 Annual Symposium in San Francisco.
During the ceremony, AMIA President and Board of Director’s Chair Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD, FACMI, made this statement:
“Titus Schleyer, Chethan Sarabu and Manijeh Berenji, on the Climate, Health and Informatics Working Group, have taken the AMIA by storm. Since becoming a working group just a year ago they have gained 114 members, aligned their priorities with AMIA’s public policy north stars, represented AMIA to the National Academy of Medicine Climate Collaborative and organized 10 sessions at this year’s Annual Symposium. They work to provide thought leadership through papers and education on how to diagnose, prevent and treat adverse effects of climate change on human health. They collaborate with AMIA members and external organizations to identify solutions using information we already have in electronic health records to promote sustainable care, and are formulating a research agenda at the intersection of climate science, health and informatics, including addressing gaps in existing informatics resources such as clinical coding systems, and data sets to leverage large-scale health records in climate change studies. Their focus, resolve and passion has made them an exemplary working group.”
Schleyer is a research scientist and program director of the Learning Health Informatics program at the Regenstrief Institute; professor of biomedical informatics at Indiana University School of Medicine; and director of the Translational Informatics Program at the Indiana CTSI.
