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March Luncheon
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 11am - 2pm
The afternoon includes a social hour, lunch, and special guest speaker
The speaker for March 24th will be Thomas Payne, MD, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Washington.
Dr. Payne will be discussing Artifical Intelligence in Clinical Care: Benefits and Potential Harms.
Dr. Payne is a past Board Chair of AMIA and served as Medical Director of UW Medicine IT Services for 20 years. He is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and prior to 2025 was Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education, and Adjunct Professor in Health Services, in the School of Public Health. He was for 24 years attending physician at University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. He led the installation of the Veterans Administration CPRS electronic medical record at VA Puget Sound in Seattle for which VA Puget Sound was awarded the 2000 Nicholas E. Davies CPR Recognition Award. He served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and as Senior Editor of Applied Clinical Informatics. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and as Chair of the AMIA EHR-2020 Task Force. He is the author of 107 articles in the field and edits a book on Operating Clinical Computing Systems in a Medical Center now in its second edition. His research interests include natural language processing and electronic documentation in EHRs.
Dr. Payne attended Stanford University, the University of Washington School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado, and completed a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical Informatics Fellowship program. From 1989-94 he was post-doctoral fellow, Research Associate then Assistant Scientific Investigator at the Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies (half-time). From 1989-97 he was a (half-time) Primary Care Internal Medicine physician at the GHC Downtown Seattle Medical Center and Central Hospital, and Medical Staff Member of the GHC Clinical Computing Project. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Marriott Tacoma Downtown
1538 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
Chambers Ballroom 3
Cost to attend is $40/person
Please RSVP by Monday, February 23, 2026
Unfortunately there will be no virtual option for this luncheon.