Sara Ackerman, PhD, from the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences was the recent recipient of the Diana E. Forsythe Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA, www.amia.org).
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Her paper, which explored whether diagnostic computer kiosks in four California emergency departments were a benefit or burden, was selected for its integration of informatics and social sciences.