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About Dr. John P. Glaser and The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society

John P. Glaser, PhD, is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program. He is a former Senior Vice President of Population Health at Cerner Corporation. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Heath Services. Prior to Siemens, Glaser was Chief Information Officer at Partners HealthCare (now Mass General Brigham). He was the Founding Chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Glaser is the former Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum, and the former Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He serves on the boards of the Scottsdale Institute, Lumeon, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Wellsheet, and Relatient.

Dr. Glaser has received numerous awards, including the John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award (established by McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics in 2015), the William B. Stead Thought Leadership Award (American Medical Informatics Association), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from CHIME. Glaser received his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He has written over 200 articles and three books on the strategic application of IT in health care, and is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society (Glaser Society) was initiated in 2015 by McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston in recognition of the expertise and leadership of John P. Glaser, PhD, who is a universally recognized thought leader in the field of health informatics. The Glaser Society was created to acknowledge innovators in the field of health informatics and provide education, collaboration, and networking opportunities for the broader community of health informatics professionals, clinicians, and students.

In 2016, Ivo D. Nelson, a notable health information technology entrepreneur, was accorded the first John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award (Glaser Award); Dr. David Westfall Bates, Harvard’s internationally renowned patient safety expert, was presented the Glaser Award in 2017; H. Stephen Lieber, former President & CEO of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), received the 2018 Glaser Award; and Grahame Grieve, Founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR Product Director at HL7 International, accepted the 2019 Glaser Award. In 2020, it was the Glaser Society’s intent to honor Clement “Clem” J. McDonald, MD, Chief Health Data Standards Officer of the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine; however, the pandemic and resultant UTHealth Houston policy prohibited any live events at the university throughout 2020 and 2021, as well as during the spring and summer of 2022. With the resumption of live events in the fall of 2022, we honored Dr. Clem McDonald with the 2022 Glaser Award. On October 13, 2023, we will honor Marion Jokl Ball, EdD, FACMI, FAAN, FIAHSI, FMLA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, FCHIME, with the 2023 Glaser Award.

About the 2023 Glaser Award Recipient - Marion Jokl Ball, EdD, FACMI, FAAN, FIAHSI, FMLA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, FCHIME

About the 2023 Glaser Award Recipient - Marion Jokl Ball, EdD, FACMI, FAAN, FIAHSI, FMLA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, FCHIME

Dr. Marion Jokl Ball is an extraordinary proponent of health informatics and technologies that ameliorate health and healthcare. An international innovator, educator, and author, Dr. Ball currently serves as Executive Director and Founding Director of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI) at The University of Texas at Arlington, where she is also the Presidential Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering. Dr. Ball holds a Doctorate of Medical Education (EdD) from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) and an MA and BA in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY).

Over the course of her career, Dr. Ball has served in a variety of leadership roles for numerous prestigious institutions, including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Health On The Net (HON), College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), among others; in addition, has served on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), has been Co-Chair of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), was President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and is a Founding Member of Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER).

Previous Glaser Award Recipients

2022 - Dr. Clem McDonald, Chief Health Data Standards Officer of the NIH National Library of Medicine
2019 - Grahame Grieve, Founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR Product Director at HL7 International
2018 - H. Stephen Lieber, Principal of Avisos Partners, LLC, and former President & CEO of HIMSS
2017 - Dr. David Westfall Bates, Harvard University
2016 - Ivo D. Nelson, CEO and Chairman, Next Wave Health

About D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics is the only academic program in Texas focused on biomedical informatics, the largest and only free-standing school among 100 such programs in the nation, and one of the largest programs of its kind in the world. The mission of the school is to collect, process, and convert data—ranging from molecules to populations—into actionable information, knowledge, and intelligence; to educate current and future leaders, innovators, and problem-solvers across Texas, the nation, and the world; and to disrupt, transform, and innovate to elicit biomedical discoveries, improve healthcare delivery, and aid in disease prevention by conducting outstanding basic and applied research and developing impactful information technology products and solutions.

A leader in biomedical informatics research and education, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics offers a unique collaborative research/learning environment focused on transdisciplinary programs—bringing together the engineering, computer, and biomedical sciences.