Celebrating Suzanne Bakken, 2023 Morris F. Collen Award winner and pioneer in health equity

Informaticsto honor her lifetime contributions to the field of biomedical informatics.Bakken has advanced the field by integrating leading-edge research with training successive generations of informaticians and by working with underserved communities to bring the results of research to people's lives.We have created an on-line collection of selected papers from among Bakken's publications in JAMIA that is available at academic.oup.com/jamia/pages/morris-collen-award-2023.The first paper in the collection appeared in the inaugural issue of JAMIA and reported her analysis of terms used by nurses to describe patient problems as a test of the feasibility of using SNOMED III as a nursing data standard. 1This article exhibits the hallmarks of her work: rigorous grounding in existing frameworks, in this case, a comparative review of healthcare classification schemes and published evaluation studies related to their use to represent clinical data; explicit research questions; appropriate use of both qualitative and quantitative analysis; and discussion including an actionable path forward for the field.The collection provides a glimpse of her progression from first author researcher 1-6 to senior author with a mentee as first author, 7-15 as well as the evolution of her research foci.Bakken, a true transdisciplinary scholar, sees the world through the lenses of nursing, health services research, and biomedical informatics.Well-recognized as a leading nurse researcher and educator, Bakken served as a guiding force within the profession to improve the generalizability of nursing research through intentional use of formal terminologies.As a health services researcher, her work defined the informatics infrastructure for quality 2 and evaluated informatics supports for delivering quality clinical care.She is globally recognized for 3 major contributions to biomedical informatics: knowledge formalization for complex patient concerns, 9,16 especially for people with AIDS; visual analytic innovations 12,13 and applications tailored to a variety of populations 5,7,10,11,15 ; and training and mentorship of informatics scholars and leaders (Students and trainees participated in all but 2 of the papers appended here).She has also helped catalyze the emergence of health equity as a United States and global health goal by focusing her biomedical informatics research on underserved populations and by developing people from those populations into informatics scholars and leaders.Bakken's early research in nursing concept representation 1,3,4,8 informed the inclusion of nursing terminology in