Kenrick D. Cato, a standing faculty member on the clinician-educator track in the department of family and community health and a professor of informatics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will receive the 2024 Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, part of the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Signature Award program. These awards recognize AMIA members at different stages of their careers for their significant contributions to the field of informatics.

Award recipients will receive their awards at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium in San Francisco during the AMIA Awards Committee Meeting on November 11. The annual symposium is the world’s premier meeting for research and practice of biomedical and health informatics. The work presented spans the spectrum of the informatics field: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics and public health informatics.