Ignacio Valdes, Editor of Linux Medical News and Vice Chair of the AMIA Open Source Working Group is the recipient of the inaugural annual award of the IMIA Open Source Working Group. The award is made in recognition of long-standing significant achievment in the promotion of free/libre and open source software in health informatics.

The award was presented at the annual business meeting of the AMIA OSWG in Washington DC on 13 November, 2006 by Peter Murray, IMIA Vice President for Working Groups and Special Interest Groups.