2025 API Distinguished Service Award
Raymond D. Aller, MD Dr. Aller has over 50 years of experience in information technology, the past 43 years focusing on applications to healthcare. For the past 37 years, he has practiced clinical pathology, clinical informatics, and transfusion medicine. He has selected, designed, and implemented a variety of information systems. In addition, he has been active in national medical and healthcare informatics organizations, serving on numerous committees, being a frequent guest speaker at national meetings, and publishing many articles and several books on clinical information systems. Dr. Aller has also provided consulting services to a number of clinical and laboratory information system and instrument vendors and to various well known healthcare institutions. Dr. Aller has led clinical informatics, clinical pathology, and public health teams at USC, LA County Public Health, Nashville and Atlanta, the University of Utah, Long Beach Memorial Hospital, and Santa Barbara. Dr. Aller received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1976 and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from UCLA in 1972. He is licensed in California and is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Transfusion Medicine, Chemical Pathology, and Clinical Informatics. His publications include over 100 invited articles; 22 books, monographs, and chapters; and 24 peer reviewed papers, all focused in the domain of clinical informatics. For the past 37 years, he has edited and co-edited a monthly column on information management and technology for CAP Today, a national medical publication with a circulation of over 50,000. Dr. Aller has presented well over 100 seminars, workshops, and plenary lectures at national informatics, clinical pathology, and transfusion medicine conferences. Dr. Aller's professional affiliations and awards include: Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; Fellow, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International Editorial Board; Informatics Test Committee, American Board of Pathology; Herbert Lansky Memorial Award, College of American Pathologists Foundation; Outcomes Committee, College of American Pathologists; Chairman, Cerner Pathnet Users Group, 1993-1994; and Chairman, Sunquest Users Group, 1984-1988. He is Co-Editor with Mr. Dennis Winsten of CAP Today’s NewsBytes and the annual CAP Today Systems surveys. CLOSE
Dr. Raymond Aller, Clinical Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the USC School of Medicine, is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, Chemical Pathology, and Clinical Informatics. He is founding member of the Association for Pathology Informatics, Dr. Aller served as API President from 2012 to 2013 and has played a pivotal role on numerous API committees. He has also been a frequent faculty member at API-sponsored conferences and workshops, and has contributed extensively to the Journal of Pathology Informatics as both a reviewer and editorial board member. Dr. Aller’s service to API has been extraordinary and enduring. In recognition of his exceptional dedication and leadership, we are honored to present him with this year’s Distinguished Service Award. |