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Team-wide Awards and Honors

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  • 2016 Veterans Affairs HSR&D Health Systems Impact Award for significant policy and practice impact on patient safety and electronic health records-related work in the VA primary care setting.

Individual Team Member Honors and Awards

Hardeep Singh, M.D., M.P.H.

  • The 20th John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award by the Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) for Individual Lifetime Achievement 
  • 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama 
  • Academy Health 2012 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award 
  • Executive Committee member, The Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare 2023 - Current 
  • Nominated member, National Academy of Medicine Board on Health Care Services 2020 - Current 
  • Department of Veterans Affairs Representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Climate Collaborative 2022 - Current 
  • Department of Veterans Affairs Representative to the Federal Health Systems Learning Network for Climate Action 2023 - Current 
  • Work cited in PCAST Presidential Report “A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety” 
  • Member of Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Patient Safety Structural Measure 
  • Invited Expert. Fifth Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. Montreux, Switzerland 
  • Invited Expert for the Drafting and Review Task Force, Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030, World Health Organization (WHO). Released and adopted by the WHO 
  • Invited Task Force Member, VA Sustainability Task Force (STF) 
  • Patient Safety Expert of the Year 2017 – Texas award, Corporate Vision Magazine
  • 2016 VA Health Systems Impact Award for significant policy and practice impact of patient safety and electronic health records-related work in the VA primary care setting
  • 2016 IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) Yearbook of Medical Informatics selected the BMJ Quality and Safety paper, “Measuring and improving patient safety through health information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework,” as one of the best articles from the literature in Human Factors and Organization Issues’ subfield of medical informatics published in the past year.
  • Fulbright & Jaworski L. L. P. Faculty Excellence Award (Teaching and Evaluation), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2005.
  • Member, Baylor College of Medicine Academy of Distinguished Educators, Houston, Texas, 2005-present.
  • Outstanding Faculty Educator, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2004−2005
  • Outstanding Faculty Educator, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2003−2004

Dean Sittig, Ph.D.

  • 2022 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Award for Excellence, Outstanding Achievement and Special Recognition in Applied Medical InformaticsР
  • 2023 American Medical Association (AMIA) Don Eugene Detmer Signature Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics
  • 2013 International Medical Informatics Association Yearbook: Best Papers in Clinical Research Informatics for: A survey of informatics platforms that enable distributed comparative effectiveness research using multi-institutional heterogeneous clinical data.
  • Health Information Management and Systems Society – 2012 Book of the Year for Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, Second Edition
  • 2012 Above & Beyond Award, The Monarch Institute, Houston, Texas
  • 2011, Elected to Fellowship in Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society
  • 2010 John P. McGovern Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Houston Veteran’s Affairs Hospital: 2009 Outstanding Performance Improvement Activity Award – Second Place: ‘New Multidisciplinary Solutions to Address Follow-Up of Fecal Occult Blood Test Results’ – Patient Safety Center of Inquiry.
  • Health Information Management and Systems Society – 2009 Book of the Year for Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide
  • Distinguished Paper Award at 2009 American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium for: Persistent Paper: The Myth of “Going Paperless”
  • Distinguished Paper Award at 2008 American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium for: A rapid assessment process for clinical informatics interventions
  • Second Prize – Best Paper Competition MedInfo – 2007 Brisbane, Australia for Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Computerized Physician Order Entry
  • Health Information Management and Systems Society – 2005 Book of the Year for Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide

Traber Giardina, Ph.D., M.S.W

  • Graduate Fellowship, Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology, 2003-2005
  • National Academies of Medicine Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence, 2021-2022
  • Health System Impact Award, 2016
  • Best Poster Presentation - "Learning from Patient Experiences Related to Diagnostic Errors Is Essential for Improving Patient Safety." 11th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference, 2018
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Ashley N.D. Meyer, Ph.D.

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Ashley Meyer Early Career Research Award 2019
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  • 2nd Annual Early Career IQuESt Faculty Research Award, 2019
  • Psychology Department Research Travel Award, Rice University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Graduate Fellowship, Rice University, 2006-2011
  • Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in Educational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021

Emporia State University

  • Graduate Student Teaching Assistantship, 2005-2006
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Daniel R. Murphy, M.D., M.B.A

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  • Recipient of "That's the Way" Award for patient satisfaction, 2018Comment from a patient I care for acknowledged as part of Patient Connect Patient Satisfaction program, 2019
  • Star Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care, 2020
  • Barry Goodfriend Outpatient Healer Award, General Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021
  • VA National Health System Impact Award, Houston VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry Team, November 2016
  • Best Oral Presentation. BCM Patient Quality & Safety Conference. May 15, 2014
  • Paul C. Boyle Award for Excellence in Student Research, University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics, May 2011
  • First ever recipient of Patient Safety Innovations in Medical Residency Award, Jackson Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Residency, June 2008
  • Academic Excellence Award, University of Miami School of Business, 2006
  • 3rd Place Teaching Radiology Exhibit, Association of University Radiologists Annual Mtg., 2004