By Erica Techo
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Family, Community and Health Systems Marisa Wilson, DNSc, MHSc, CPHIMS, RN-BC, FAMIA, FIAHSI, FAAN, has received global recognition from HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. HIMSS is a global non-profit organization that uses information and technology to reform the global health ecosystem.
Wilson is the 2022 recipient of the HIMSS-ANI Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, which recognizes a nursing informatics leader who demonstrates leadership qualities and works to optimize health engagements and care outcomes through information and technology. Recipients are selected by the HIMSS Board of Directors and the Governing Directors of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.
“I am honored and humbled,” Wilson said. “All of my work in informatics is around ensuring that nurses can use the data and information technology tools on hand to capture and measure the impact they make on patients and populations every day. I share this award with all my incredibly innovative and scholarly nurse informatics colleagues who work tirelessly with me to make this vision a reality.”
The award will be presented during the 2022 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, held March 14-18 in Orlando. For nearly 60 years, HIMSS members and health care professionals—from chief information officers and senior executives to providers and payers to IT consultants and entrepreneurs—have attended this health information and technology industry conference and trade show.
Wilson is an internationally recognized leader of informatics. In 2019, she was named an inaugural American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fellow. In 2020, she was elected to serve as the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group representative to the International Medical Informatics Association. She currently serves on the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education Board of Directors and has received appointments to national and international bodies focused on standards in health information technology.
