Gunther Eysenbach
Canadian hesalthcare researcher
Gunther Eysenbach
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Known for | EHealth , Consumer health informatics |
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Fields | Healthcare |
Institutions | Centre for Global eHealth Innovation |
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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 2000-2008, 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
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Lewis, D; Eysenbach, G; Kukafka, R; Jimison, H; Stavri, Z (eds.) (2005).
Consumer Health Informatics
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New York
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Springer
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ISBN
978-0-387-23991-0
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OCLC
60413694
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Eysenbach, G. (ed.) (1998).
Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor
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Stuttgart
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New York
: Thieme.
ISBN
978-3-13-115221-3
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OCLC
41647056
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Eysenbach G, Lamers W (eds.) (1999).
Praxis und Computer
(in German). Düsseldorf: Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges.
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has generic name ( help ) - 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
- Official website (via the Internet Archive )
- Faculty page at the University of Toronto (via the Internet Archive )
- Profile on Google Scholar
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