2012 international new Fellows - American Academy of Nursing

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2012
HOnORaRY FEllOWs
Don Eugene Detmer, MD, FACMI
Don Eugene Detmer is Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education at the
University of Virginia and Medical Director for Advocacy and Health Policy for the
American College of Surgeons. He is Visiting Professor, Centre for Health Informatics
and Multi-professional Education, University College London and Associate Editor of the
Standards Standard.
Dr. Detmer is a past President and CEO of AMIA, and a prior chairman of the IOM Board
on Health Care Services, the IOM Membership Committee, the National Library
of Medicine’s Board of Regents, and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
While President and CEO of AMIA, he innovated advanced inter-professional education
and certification in clinical informatics in two dimensions, e.g., specialty sub-certification
in clinical informatics from the American Board of Medical Specialties for medicine and
concomitant equivalent training for nursing as well as other advanced health professions.
He also led development of a plan for a common inter-professional informatics curriculum
for all entry level health professionals. AMIA’s innovative 10x10 program for advancing
informatics education across the world includes nursing informatics among its professional
disciplines. International level informatics was pursued through grants from the Gates and
Rockefeller Foundations.
Dr. Detmer chaired the IOM committee that produced the Computer-based Patient Record
reports of 1991 and 1997 and was a member of the IOM “To Err is Human” and the
“Crossing the Quality Chasm” reports plus numerous additional studies, workshops, and
IOM reviews.
His medical degree is from the University of Kansas and his M.A. is from the University of
Cambridge. Honors include the Walsh McDermott Medal from the IOM, ACMI’s Morris
Collen Award, AMIA’s inaugural Don Eugene Detmer Health Policy in Informatics Award,
and Fellowship in the AAAS. He holds a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for
the nation’s first interdisciplinary Master’s Degree program for Clinician Executives from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Current research interests include national and international health information and
communications policy, health policy relating to surgery, administrative medicine, and
leadership of academic health sciences centers. Current hobbies include crafts, fishing,
horses, grandchildren, teaching children’s Sunday school with his wife, and tree farming.