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Canadian hesalthcare researcher
Gunther Eysenbach is a German-Canadian researcher on
healthcare , especially health policy,
eHealth , and
consumer health informatics .
Career
Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967[
citation needed ] in
West Berlin ,
West Germany . While a
medical student , he served on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the
European Medical Students' Association .
[1] He received an
M.D. from the
University of Freiburg and a
Master of Public Health from
Harvard School of Public Health . From 1999 to 2002 he founded and headed a research unit on
cybermedicine and ehealth at the
University of Heidelberg [
citation needed ] and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine.
[2] In March 2002, he emigrated to
Canada [
citation needed ] and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
[3] at the
University Health Network [
citation needed ] (
Toronto, Ontario , Canada), and
associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the
University of Toronto .[
citation needed ]
Eysenbach works in the field of
consumer health informatics . He has written several books and articles, and organizes conferences. He is
editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Medical Internet Research . From 2000 to 2008, he served as working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the
International Medical Informatics Association .
[4]
Other contributions include:
Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual
Medicine 2.0 Congress
[5]
Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence,
[6] which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later.
[7]
[8] He coined the terms "
infoveillance " and "
infodemiology " for these kinds of approaches.
[9]
[10]
Eysenbach is initiator of
WebCite , an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages.
[11]
Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform
[12]
He founded and serves as CEO for the Canadian publisher
JMIR Publications , which is the publisher of the
Journal of Medical Internet Research and 30 other
open access journals; JMIR Publications is notable as one of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Business Insider
[13]
He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (
OASPA )
[14]
Books written or edited
Lewis, D; Eysenbach, G; Kukafka, R; Jimison, H; Stavri, Z, eds. (2005). Consumer Health Informatics .
New York :
Springer .
ISBN
978-0-387-23991-0 .
OCLC
60413694 .
Eysenbach, G., ed. (1998). Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor .
Stuttgart -
New York : Thieme.
ISBN
978-3-13-115221-3 .
OCLC
41647056 .
Eysenbach G; Lamers W, eds. (1999). Praxis und Computer (in German). Düsseldorf: Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges.
Eysenbach, G (1994). Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler (in German).
Munich -
Baltimore : Urban & Schwarzenberg.
ISBN
978-3-541-11841-0 .
OCLC
30558735 .
See also
WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach
References
^ Web site of the
European Medical Students' Association . See
"EMSA & IFMSA" . Archived from
the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
^
"World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet" (Press release).
University of Heidelberg . 1999-08-27. Retrieved 2008-04-21 .
^
"Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw" . Canhealth.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18 .
^
"IMIA Working Groups" . Archived from
the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
^
"medicine20congress.com" . medicine20congress.com. Archived from
the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2013-08-18 .
^ Gunther Eysenbach (2006).
"Infodemiology: tracking flu-related searches on the web for syndromic surveillance" . AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings . 2006 : 244–248.
PMC
1839505 .
PMID
17238340 .
^ Philip M. Polgreen;
Yiling Chen ; David M. Pennock; Forrest D. Nelson (December 2008).
"Using internet searches for influenza surveillance" .
Clinical Infectious Diseases . 47 (11): 1443–1448.
doi :
10.1086/593098 .
PMID
18954267 .
^ Jeremy Ginsberg; Matthew H. Mohebbi; Rajan S. Patel; Lynnette Brammer; Mark S. Smolinski; Larry Brilliant (February 2009).
"Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data" .
Nature . 457 (7232): 1012–1014.
Bibcode :
2009Natur.457.1012G .
doi :
10.1038/nature07634 .
PMID
19020500 .
S2CID
125775 .
^ Gunther Eysenbach (May 2011).
"Infodemiology and infoveillance tracking online health information and cyberbehavior for public health" .
American Journal of Preventive Medicine . 40 (5 Suppl 2): S154–S158.
doi :
10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.006 .
PMID
21521589 .
^ Gunther Eysenbach (2009).
"Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet" .
Journal of Medical Internet Research . 11 (1): e11.
doi :
10.2196/jmir.1157 .
PMC
2762766 .
PMID
19329408 .
^ Eysenbach, Gunther; Trudel, Mathieu (2005).
"Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages" . Journal of Medical Internet Research . 7 (5): e60.
doi :
10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60 .
PMC
1550686 .
PMID
16403724 .
^ Hall, Jenny.
"U of T student-entrepreneur cuts through scholarly information overload with TrendMD" . University of Toronto .
^
"JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List" . JMIR Publications.
^
"Founding Members" . OASPA. Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
External links
International National Academics