By Shannon Turgeon
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
Uduak Ndoh, vice chancellor and deputy chief information officer, health sciences, is the recipient of the 2026 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources (GIR) Vince Sheehan Service Award.
The Group on Information Resources is an affinity group of AAMC that promotes excellence in applying and integrating information technology (IT) within academic medicine.
Ndoh first became involved with GIR early in his career while working at Duke University.
He started out by giving presentations at GIR’s yearly conferences, went through the group’s Leading Information Technology in Academic Medicine program and served on the steering committee for many years.
GIR’s Vince Sheehan Service Award recognizes an individual for significant and long-lasting impact in academic medical center IT and to the GIR community. The annual award honors someone whose personal commitment and dedication embodies the qualities of a leader and role model.
Ndoh served as the faculty lead for the Leading Information Technology in Academic Medicine program last year, which involved recruiting faculty, determining the curriculum and faculty plans and helping run the program for new fellows.
“My passion has always been in organizational design, leadership and mentoring. That’s just what I like to do,” he said.
He also cocreated GIR’s Mentorship Circles, a program where senior IT leaders provide guidance to groups of mentees for one-year cycles.
Ndoh described being nominated for the award as “great and humbling.”
Reflecting on what the GIR community has meant to his career, Ndoh drew on remarks from his recent commencement address:
“Your village is very important to you: the village raises you, supports you, keeps you humble and knocks you down, but builds you back up. In my career, this group of individuals in GIR have been my village.”
Ndoh accepted the award at AAMC’s 2026 Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference in Austin, Texas, earlier this month.
“My acceptance speech was about how grateful I am, and how I am committed to continuing to lean in and provide whatever expertise and knowledge that I can impart,” he said.