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Update from Headquarters • January 2016<br />
Board Election Results<br />
One of the many changes that 2016 will bring us is a new <strong>HL7</strong> Board of Directors. As recently announced, the<br />
election results for 2016 Board positions are as follows:<br />
DIRECTOR AT<br />
DIRECTOR AT<br />
AFFILIATE<br />
TREASURER<br />
LARGE<br />
LARGE<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Russell Leftwich, MD Keith Boone Floyd Eisenberg, MD Beat Heggli<br />
Congratulations to<br />
Russ, Keith, Floyd<br />
and Beat. Photos and<br />
contact information<br />
for all members of<br />
the 2016 <strong>HL7</strong> Board<br />
of Directors are<br />
provided on page 38.<br />
Volunteers of the Year Awards<br />
It is amazing to realize that we are already in the 19th year of recognizing<br />
incredible efforts by our dedicated volunteers via our W. Edward<br />
Hammond, PhD <strong>HL7</strong> Volunteer of the Year Awards. While there are<br />
certainly dozens of individuals who merit <strong>this</strong> recognition each year,<br />
the Awards Committee is challenged to limit the annual award to only<br />
a few. This year’s recipients are three very worthy <strong>HL7</strong> members who<br />
have become valuable leaders and significant contributors to <strong>HL7</strong> within<br />
a relatively short number of years. As Ed mentioned during the awards<br />
ceremony, we are honored and pleased to recognize <strong>this</strong> year’s recipients<br />
of the W. Ed Hammond <strong>HL7</strong> Volunteer of the Year Awards:<br />
• Elaine Ayres, deputy chief, Laboratory for <strong>In</strong>formatics<br />
Development, NIH Clinical Center<br />
• Russell Leftwich, MD, senior clinical advisor for interoperability,<br />
<strong>In</strong>terSystems<br />
• Grant Wood, senior IT strategist, <strong>In</strong>termountain Healthcare<br />
More details on the contributions of <strong>this</strong> year’s three volunteer of the<br />
year award recipients are provided on page 11.<br />
Benefactors and Supporters<br />
We are proud to recognize<br />
our growing list of <strong>HL7</strong>’s 2015<br />
benefactors and gold members who<br />
are listed on page 22. Their support<br />
of <strong>HL7</strong> is needed and sincerely<br />
appreciated. We are pleased to<br />
recognize our benefactors in all<br />
of our <strong>HL7</strong> newsletters, website,<br />
press releases, and at all of our <strong>HL7</strong><br />
working group meetings.<br />
Organizational Member Firms<br />
As listed on pages 23-26, <strong>HL7</strong><br />
is very proud to recognize the<br />
organizations who are <strong>HL7</strong><br />
organizational member companies.<br />
We sincerely appreciate their<br />
ongoing support of <strong>HL7</strong> via their<br />
organizational membership dues.<br />
<strong>HL7</strong> Fellows<br />
During our recent 29th Annual Plenary Meeting, <strong>HL7</strong><br />
was pleased to bestow <strong>HL7</strong> Fellowship to eight deserving<br />
individuals. The <strong>HL7</strong> Fellowship program recognizes<br />
individuals who have contributed significantly to <strong>HL7</strong><br />
have been an <strong>HL7</strong> member for at least 15 years. <strong>HL7</strong><br />
Board Chair, Stan Huff, MD, thanked and congratulated<br />
the following individuals as the 2015 class of <strong>HL7</strong> Fellows:<br />
• Calvin Beebe<br />
• Tom de Jong<br />
• Grahame Grieve<br />
• Diego Kaminker<br />
• Austin Kreisler<br />
• Dale Nelson<br />
• Scott Robertson, PharmD<br />
• Ioana Singureanu<br />
<strong>HL7</strong> Fellows at the 29th Annual Plenary Meeting<br />
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