Approved Academy By-Laws– Updated July 2023

Academy Board 

Dr. Heimar de Fatima Marin, President (2024-2026)
Prof. Heimar de Fatima Marin is Alumni Professor at the Federal
University of São Paulo, advocating technology and communication in nursing and healthcare. Dr Marin has held many President, Chair and director positions over her career including President of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, Chair for IMIA NI (Nursing Informatics, Director of the Graduate Program in Health Informatics, and Executive Coordinator of the Strategic Committee of UNIFESP Information Technology and Management Committee, for the Hospital University /Hospital Sao Paulo.  Read More…

Dr. Laura- Maria Peltonen, President-Elect (2025-2026)
Laura-Maria Peltonen, PhD is Adjunct Professor working at the
Department of Nursing Science at the University of Turku in
Finland. She works actively to improve the reach and impact of
health informatics internationally. Her research focuses on usercentered development and evaluation of the impact of information technologies to better support healthcare delivery. Read More…

Dr. Terry Hannan, Secretary (Second Term 2024 – 2026)
Dr . Hannan is a Clinical A/Professor and Visiting Faculty member of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is an Associate Editor of the Applied Clinical Informatics journal. He is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics and the American College of medical Informatics.  Read more…

 

 

 

Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw, Treasurer (Second Term 2025 – 2027)
Professor Liaw is a clinician scientist with expertise in health informatics and systems research and education. He is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth, the Chair of IMIA’s Primary Care Informatics Working Group, member of the Working Council of the Asia eHealth Information Network and Associate Editor, Int J Med Informatics.  Read More…

 

 

 

 

Dr. Hyeoun-Ae Park, Member -at-Large (2025-2028)
Dr. Park is the Emeritus Dean and a Professor at College of Nursing and a Researcher at the Systems Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Seoul National University.  She had served IMIA as the vice president for Working Groups and Special Interest Groups from 2007 to 2013, and IMIA President Elect for 2015 – 2017. She also had served as the chair of the Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group in IMIA from 2012 to 2015.  Read More…

 

 

 

 

Dr. Don E. Detmer, Member-at-Large (Second Term – 2023-2026)
Don Eugene Detmer, MD, MA, is Professor of Medical
Education at the University of Virginia. He has held past
professorships at Cambridge University, the University of
Utah, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Read More…

 

 

 

Dr. Kaija Saranto, Past President (2024 – 2026)
Dr. Kaija Saranto is a Professor for Health and Human Services Informatics at the University of Eastern Finland and Past President of the Finnish Health Informatics Association. She has served as a Scientific Program Co-Chair for MedInfo 2015 and as the VP MedInfo for 2017, as well as in many various other leadership roles within the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) including IMIA’s Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA NI). Read more…

 

 

 

Ex Officio Academy Board Members

Dr. Paula Otero, IMIA President

 

 

 

Elaine Huesing, CEO, IMIA

 

 

 

Past Academy Board members

IAHSI Virtual Board Meeting – July 8, 2020

Top left to right: Dr. Reinhold Haux, President; Elaine Huesing, IMIA CEO; Marion Ball, Member at Large
Bottom left to right: Dr. Michio Kimura, Treasurer; Dr. Bill Hersch, In Coming President; Dr. Paula Otero, Secretary