Awards

William Hersh, MD has won numerous local, national, and international awards for his academic achievements:

• Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Medicine Graduate Programs, OHSU, 1999

• Leadership Award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2005, 2006, and 2013

• OHSU Distinguished Faculty Award – Outstanding Teaching, OHSU Faculty Senate, 2007

• Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, AMIA, 2008

• Top 25 Clinical Informaticists, Modern Healthcare, 2010, 2011, and 2012

• Physician IT Leadership Award, Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 2015

• William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics, AMIA, 2022

• Lifetime Achievement Award, HIMSS Oregon Chapter, 2023

• Distinguished Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 2024

• Inaugural AMIA Academic Forum Health Informatics Educator of the Year Award, 2025

Dr. Hersh has also received numerous honorific elections for his career accomplishments, including to the:

• National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

• American College of Physicians (FACP)

• American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI)

• International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI)

• American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA)

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy