Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Yearb Med Inform 2018; 27(01): 001-002DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1641211 President's Statement Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart Taking up the Gavel Christoph U. Lehmann , President of IMIA Recommend Article Abstract Full Text References References 1 Ball MJ. A New IMIA Tradition. Yearb Med Inform 1993; 2 (01) 1-2 2 Lehmann CU, Park HA, Shortliffe EH, Degoulet P. The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics: An Academy of Excellence. Yearb Med Inform 2017; Aug; 26 (01) 7-8 3 Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics 2018 Conference. Available online at http://dhw2018.org/apami2018/ 4 Al-Shorbaji N, Househ M, Taweel A, Alanizi A, Mohammed BO, Abaza H. , et al. Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA): Building Sustainable Collaboration. Yearb Med Inform. 2018. Available online at https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0038-1641207.pdf