Tiffany Veinot honored as Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor of Information
Friday, 02/17/2023
The University of Michigan School of Information has recommended Tiffany Veinot as the Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor of Information. The appointment was approved by the University of Michigan Board of Regents on Thursday, Feb. 16.
As a highly regarded scholar and leader in the fields of health informatics, information science, and human-computer interaction, Veinot's research focuses on how information technology can be used to reduce health disparities and improve the health of marginalized populations. She serves as the associate dean for faculty at UMSI and is a founding faculty member and former director of the Master of Health Informatics degree program.
Her research has earned wide acclaim, with publications earning 16 awards, honors and recognitions. This includes a best paper award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in 2018, selection as a top paper in the “Year in Review” from the American Medical Informatics Association in 2014, and the Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal of Documentation in 2011. More recently, her papers have also been selected as “Editor’s Choice” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association four times, her work was selected for a 30-year retrospective on information behavior research in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science in 2021, and a paper was honored by the International Medical Informatics Association in 2022.
In 2022, Veinot was elected as fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), recognizing her significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics at the national and international levels.
"I was very pleased to nominate Professor Veinot for this honor,” says Elizabeth Yakel, interim dean at the University of Michigan School of Information. “Her research in health informatics is exemplary and her work has addressed systemic racism by designing interventions that address health disparities. Naming the chair after UMSI Professor Emerita Joan Durrance is fitting because it carries on the long-standing UMSI tradition of community-engaged research to build a better world."
As the Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor of Information, Veinot will continue to lead groundbreaking research and teach courses that inspire the next generation of information and health informatics professionals.
"I am delighted to receive this honor, and to recognize Professor Joan Durrance in the process,” says Veinot. “Professor Durrance is a pioneer in community-engaged research in information science, and I have drawn inspiration from her work for many years."
The Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professorship was established in the Provost’s Office in honor of Professor Emerita Joan C. Durrance. Upon her retirement, the University of Michigan School of Information also created a faculty community engagement award in her honor.
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