Editorial Comments: Kudos to Dr. Stead

Abstract

William W. Stead, MD, recently completed a decade of service to AMIA and to our profession as the founding editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association . We, the associate editor group who worked under him, take this opportunity to thank him for his profound contributions. Dr. Stead imparted a number of important characteristics to the editorship and to JAMIA by demonstrating: 1. A massive, passionate commitment to moving the field forward through dissemination of scholarship and innovation. 2. A commitment …