Professor; creative researcher, innovator and thought-leader in ehealth; visionary publisher/editor
Toronto, Canada Area
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- Visiting Professor at University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Founder at WebCite Consortium
- Senior Scientist, Consumer Health Informatics Group at Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, UHN, Toronto
- Associate Professor at Dept of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Editor in chief & Publisher at JMIR
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- Co-chair, Consumer Health Informatics Working Group at IMIA
- Chair at Mednet 2006 - 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine
- Researcher at Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg
- Vice President, Board of Directors at European Medical Students' Association
- Education
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- Harvard University
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
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Gunther Eysenbach’s Summary
Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH, a graduate from Harvard University, is recognized by many as one of the leading researchers in the field of eHealth and Internet & Medicine. He is currently Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the Toronto Research Institute/Toronto General Hospital and Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research. He also holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and is Visiting Professor at the University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands.
He founded and headed the first research group on cybermedicine and eHealth worldwide at the University of Heidelberg between 1999 and 2001, where his main research interest was consumer health informatics, and came to Canada in March 2002 to help establishing the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto.
He is author of a textbook for computers in medicine (which he wrote at the age of 24), editor of a loose-leaf book on computers for physicians, founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, a leading peer-reviewed global eHealth journal, which is now ranked the #2 medical informatics journal in the world, and which was also one of the first open access journals in medicine. Dr. Eysenbach has authored more than 120 publications, including almost 40 book-chapters as well as several pioneer studies and comments on cybermedicine, e-health and Consumer health informatics, published in respected international journals such as JAMA, BMJ, and the Lancet.
He has also organized and chaired dozens of international workshops, seminars, and conferences, including the World Congress on Internet in Medicine in 1998 and 2006. He is currently working on establishing a new successor conference series named "Medicine 2.0", a conference on Web 2.0 and social networking technologies in health.
Gunther Eysenbach’s Specialties:
consulting; development of new concepts; analyses of a range of extremely complex problems requiring evaluation of multiple intangible variables and alternative solutions; broad knowledge of qualitative and quantitative/statistical methods; development of new methods; writing reports and scientific articles in top journals; experienced keynote speaker at conferences; conference and meeting organizer; technical knowledge and hands-on web programming skills (e.g. php/ySQL, HTML/XML); health 2.0
Gunther Eysenbach’s Experience
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Visiting Professor
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Visiting professor at the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, working with Prof Erwin Seydel, Dept of Psychology, Health and Risk, as well with RIVM (Dutch Centers for Disease Control), on ehealth projects
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Founder
WebCite Consortium
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org) is an archiving tool for publishers, editors and scholarly authors, preserving cited webpages and other webdocuments as they were seen by the author.
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Senior Scientist, Consumer Health Informatics Group
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, UHN, Toronto
(Research industry)
March 2002 — Present (7 years 9 months)
Principal Investigator on a number of grant-funded projects related to ehealth and epublishing.
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Associate Professor
Dept of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
March 2002 — Present (7 years 9 months)
Supervising PhD and MSc students. I am always looking for excellent students in ehealth.
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Editor in chief & Publisher
JMIR
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
I am founding Editor in chief & Publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), a leading health informatics journal. According to the SCI/ISI Journal Impact Reports 2006, released in 2007, the journal is now the #2 ranked journal in the medical informatics category by impact factor (JIF 2006: 2.9), after JAMIA, outranking other established journals such as J Biomedical Informatics, Methods of Information in medicine or International Journal of Informatics (and 18 other journals in this category). It was also the first open access journal in medical informatics.
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Co-chair, Consumer Health Informatics Working Group
IMIA
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
2002 — 2007 (5 years )
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Chair
Mednet 2006 - 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine
(Non-Profit; Events Services industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
I was chair of the Organizing Committee as well as the Scientific Committee of this conference, which was attended by about 400 health professionals
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Researcher
Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
January 1999 — February 2002 (3 years 2 months)
Head of a research group on cybermedicine and ehealth
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Vice President, Board of Directors
European Medical Students' Association
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year )
Gunther Eysenbach’s Education
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Harvard University
MPH , Public Health , 2001 — 2003
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
Dr.med. , Medical Doctorate , 1990 — 1996
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Gunther Eysenbach’s Interests:
ehealth research; writing & publishing; websurfing; skiing, kitesurfing
Gunther Eysenbach’s Groups:
IMIA, AMIA, ALPSP and CrossRef, IIPC, cyberinfrastructure behv med
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Gunther Eysenbach’s Honors:
2002 Ferguson Distinguished Achievement Award
2004 Janssen-Cilag "Future Award"
2006 AMIA Distinguished Paper Award (Ann Fall Conf)
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