This award honors a healthcare technology professional (individual or group) that has applied innovative clinical engineering practices or principles to solve one or more significant clinical patient care problems or challenges facing a patient population, community, or group.
Thanks to the generous support of the Institute for Technology in Health Care (ITHC), this award includes a check for $1,500 and a plaque that will be presented at the AAMI Exchange.
Submit your nomination here. Deadline for submission is January 11, 2021 EXTENDED! January 18, 2021. For more information, contact awards@aami.org.
Samuel Gurmu, clinical engineer system architect, University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD
This year’s winner, Samuel Gurmu, engineered a clinical morbidity platform for the University of Maryland Medical Center to ensure rapid and reliable communication between two interrelated hospital units: the neonatal intensive care unit and the labor and delivery unit. This led to demonstratable improvements in healthcare delivery and is now being adopted across the hospital. Gurmu published his solution in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
“I am incredibly honored to be chosen for this award and am glad to see an institution such as AAMI encouraging the healthcare workforce to improve quality of care,” said Gurmu. “Ultimately, this award recognizes our team for striving to serve patients to the best of our ability.”