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Vimla L. Patel
Honors and Awards
  • 1994 - Elected "Woman of Science" for the year (Sweden)
  • 1996 - Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada (elected by the Academy of Social Sciences)
  • 1996 - Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
  • 1997 - Elected Member, Board of Governors, Cognitive Science Society
  • 1998 - D.Sc. (honorary), University of Victoria, BC, Canada
  • 2002 - Outstanding Manuscript Award in Educational Methodology, Journal of Dental Education
  • 2003-2006 - Vice President (Member services), IMIA Board
  • 2004 - Elected Fellow, The New York Academy of Medicine
  • 2007 - Selected for Marquis Who's Who in the World
  • 2008 - Service Faculty of the Year Award, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University
  • 2009 - Vice Chair, AMIA 2009 Scientific Program Committee
  • 2009 - STAR Award (with Edward Shortliffe), University of Texas System, University of Texas in Houston
  • 2013 - Hind Rattan Award Recipient, NRI Welfare Society of India, New Delhi, India
  • 2013 - AMIA Leadership Award Recipient, American Medical Informatics Association, Washington DC, USA
  • 2016 - Five Year Service Award from the New York Academy of Medicine, NY
  • 2017 - Elected Member, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics [IAHSI]
  • 2021 - AMIA William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics
  • 2021 - Ten Year Service Award from the New York Academy of Medicine, NY
  • 2023 - Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award, Research.com
  • 2025 - ACMI Distinguished Fellow for exemplary leadership and discipline-shaping interdisciplinary research
  • 2025 - Lifetime Career Award, for contributions to cognitive science, medical reasoning, and patient-centered informatics, from the International Society for Medical Artificial Intelligence (ISMAI)
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