WBS Research Fellow wins prestigious US research award
Latest press releasesWBS Research Fellow Dr Maja Korica has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Diana Forsythe Award, sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) People and Organizational Issues Working Group.
The award is for her paper, Making Sense of Professional Identities: Stories of Medical Professionals and New Technologies, published in Human Relations, (2010) 63 (12): 1879‐1901, jointly-authored with Eamonn Molloy, former WBS Research Fellow.
Drawing on interview data with senior surgeons from a variety of surgical disciplines, the study uncovered the degree and significance of innovation and invention among surgeons. Rather than being passive adopters of new technologies the study found that surgeon's are enthusiastic inventors, seeking out technological solutions to patient care and inventing equipment where they see the need.
The Diana Forsythe Award honours either the peer-reviewed AMIA conference paper, or the peer-reviewed article published during the previous year that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe's work at the intersection of medical informatics and the social sciences.
Professor Davide Nicolini, co-Director of the Innovation, Knowledge and Organizational Networks Research Centre, (IKON), who himself won this prize in 2007, commented, "The competition for the Award was exceptional this year as the paper was selected from an initial set of over 60 nominated papers."
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