As the Chair of the IAIMS Consortium, I welcome to this website our current members and those interested in IAIMS. The staff of the David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of Los Angeles California and I look forward to working with Consortium colleagues during the coming year on program plans and activities that will help our membership excel. 

These opportunities will provide current updates and valuable networking activities through combining the efforts of those institutions that have been IAIMS sites while offering information, advice and counsel to those considering embarking on the IAIMS process. 

Our thanks go out to Dr. William Welsh of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey for his drive, dedication and leadership of the Consortium over the past two years, and our appreciation to Laura Barrett for her dedication and hard work in support of the organization. 

If you are a current IAIMS grant holder, have applied for one in the past or are considering applying, we would encourage you to consider membership in our organization; application information is available at our Membership link above.

We also encourage you, if you are interested in health care information technology and knowledge management, to take a look at the "hold the date" alert below about our upcoming annual meeting on November 13, 2007 in Chicago; we hope to see you there. Best wishes as we look forward to an exciting year ahead.

Alan Robinson, MD
Principal Investigator, UCLA Infoshare IAIMS Operations Grant

Executive Associate Dean of UCLA School of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles

Announcements

1. The IAIMS Consortium is sponsoring a panel, poster session, and dinner program at the AMIA annual meeting in Chicago on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. Detailed program information can be found at: http://www.amia.org/meetings/f07/iaims.asp
   
2. Congratulations to American College of Surgeons, University of Wyoming, New York University School of Medicine       Recent Awardees of IAIMS grants.