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Gunther Eysenbach

Gunther Eysenbach

Canadian hesalthcare researcher

Gunther Eysenbach is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.

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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

  1. [1]
    Web site of the European Medical Students' Association. See "EMSA & IFMSA". Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  2. [2]
    "World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet" (Press release). University of Heidelberg. 1999-08-27. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
  3. [3]
    "Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw". Canhealth.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  4. [4]
    "IMIA Working Groups". Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  5. [5]
    "medicine20congress.com". medicine20congress.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  6. [6]
    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.
  7. [7]
    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.
  8. [8]
    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.
  9. [9]
    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.
  10. [10]
    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.
  11. [11]
    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.
  12. [12]
    Hall, Jenny. "U of T student-entrepreneur cuts through scholarly information overload with TrendMD". University of Toronto.
  13. [13]
    "JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List". JMIR Publications.
  14. [14]
    "Founding Members". OASPA. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
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