%0 Journal Article %T A Call to Action %J Archive of "Yearbook of Medical Informatics". %D 2019 %R 10.1055/s-0039-1677923 %X My time as President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) is quickly coming to an end and I will turn over the gavel to Prof. Sabine Koch at the end of MedInfo, in Lyon, France, in August of this year 1 . Relinquishing the office will be bittersweet. While I tremendously enjoyed working with IMIA¡¯s CEO and admire and appreciate the many dedicated volunteers on the IMIA Board of Directors and in the working groups of the organization, it also has been a challenging time due to effects of MedInfo 2017 %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6697494/