Outstanding volunteer service

Each year InSight presents the Tom Utley Award to honor one member who has demonstrated outstanding service through their volunteer activities. This award, presented at the InSight Annual Meeting during the opening session, recognizes the best of our many volunteers who contribute their time and talents to make InSight one of the leading user groups in the country.

Any active individual member of InSight in good standing is eligible for the award with the exception of current officers, directors, affiliates, consultants, members of the Membership Committee and previous recipients. The recipient will be selected by the Membership Committee.

Tom Utley

Tom Utley was a former CIO at Merritt-Peralta Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. In 1986, Tom met with executives of HBO & Company and suggested the formation of a user group to provide a forum for customers to share information and leverage their experiences towards product improvement. Tom, along with five other customers, began meeting and in 1987 held the first annual meeting of what became the Star Products Users Group (SPUG). Tom also served as SPUG’s first President, exerting his unique leadership style and devoting himself to excellence and innovation. It was Tom’s dedication, loyalty and determination that formed the foundation for this grass roots effort that led ultimately to the formation of InSight in 1998.

InSight is currently accepting nominations for the 2014 Tom  Utley Award Winner. The award will be presented at the InSight 2014 Annual Conference. 

The award recipient will receive free registration to the next annual conference and an engraved plaque.

To nominate an InSight member, please download the Tom Utley Award Nomination form and send to insight@insight-net.org once completed. Nominations will be accepted through June 27, 2014.

2013 Tom Utley Award Winner

Jeanette DeFoe, Clinical Informatics, Kittitas Valley Healthcare and InSight's 2014 Director of Education

Past winners

2012 - George Vallillee
2011 - Eileen Donnelly
2009 - Debe Gash
2008 - Carolyn Crook
2007 - Lou Hermans
2006 - Jim Cramer
2005 - Nancy Dean
2004 - Sid Tuesley
2003 - Rick Warren