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'''Gunther Eysenbach''' is a German-Canadian researcher on [[healthcare]], especially health policy, [[eHealth]], and [[health informatics|consumer health informatics]]. |
'''Gunther Eysenbach''' is a German-Canadian researcher on [[healthcare]], especially health policy, [[eHealth]], and [[health informatics|consumer health informatics]]. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} in [[West Berlin]], [[West Germany]]. While a [[Medical school|medical student]], he served on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the [[European Medical Students' Association]].<ref>Web site of the [[European Medical Students' Association]]. See {{cite web |url=http://emsa.emsa-europe.net/modules/content/index.php?id=38 |title=EMSA & IFMSA |access-date=March 15, 2020 |
Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} in [[West Berlin]], [[West Germany]]. While a [[Medical school|medical student]], he served on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the [[European Medical Students' Association]].<ref>Web site of the [[European Medical Students' Association]]. See {{cite web |url=http://emsa.emsa-europe.net/modules/content/index.php?id=38 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503073626/http://emsa.emsa-europe.net/modules/content/index.php?id=38 |archive-date=May 3, 2006 |title=EMSA & IFMSA |access-date=March 15, 2020}}</ref> He received an [[M.D.]] from the [[University of Freiburg]] and a [[Professional degrees of public health|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|date=December 2015}} and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine.<ref>{{cite press release |title= World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet |publisher= [[University of Heidelberg]] |date= 1999-08-27 |url= http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/press/news/press9.htm |access-date= 2008-04-21 |archive-date= 2012-02-05 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120205023206/http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/press/news/press9.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref> In March 2002, he emigrated to [[Canada]]{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canhealth.com/may02.html#anchor16193 |title=Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw |publisher=Canhealth.com |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-date=2016-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324052843/http://www.canhealth.com/may02.html#anchor16193 |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the [[University Health Network]]{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} ([[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada), and [[associate professor]] in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the [[University of Toronto]].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} |
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Eysenbach works in the field of [[health informatics|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 |
Eysenbach works in the field of [[health informatics|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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=IMIA Working Groups|url=http://www.imia.org/working_groups/WG_Profile.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=1&-Database=organizations&-KeyField=Org_ID&-SortField=workgroup_sig&-SortOrder=ascending&type=wgsig |access-date=February 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706040724/http://imia.org/working_groups/WG_Profile.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=1&-Database=organizations&-KeyField=Org_ID&-SortField=workgroup_sig&-SortOrder=ascending&type=wgsig |archive-date=July 6, 2010 }}</ref> |
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Other contributions include: |
Other contributions include: |
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* Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual [[Health 2.0|Medicine 2.0]] Congress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medicine20congress.com |title=medicine20congress.com |publisher=medicine20congress.com |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https:// |
* Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual [[Health 2.0|Medicine 2.0]] Congress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medicine20congress.com |title=medicine20congress.com |publisher=medicine20congress.com |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828040203/http://www.medicine20congress.com/ |archive-date=2008-08-28 }}</ref> |
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* Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence,<ref>{{Cite journal |
* Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence,<ref>{{Cite journal |
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}}</ref> which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later.<ref>{{Cite journal |
}}</ref> which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later.<ref>{{Cite journal |
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|author1=Philip M. Polgreen |author2=Yiling Chen |author3=David M. Pennock |author4=Forrest D. Nelson | title = Using internet searches for influenza surveillance |
|author1=Philip M. Polgreen |author2=Yiling Chen|author2-link=Yiling Chen |author3=David M. Pennock |author4=Forrest D. Nelson | title = Using internet searches for influenza surveillance |
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| journal = [[Clinical Infectious Diseases]] |
| journal = [[Clinical Infectious Diseases]] |
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|bibcode=2009Natur.457.1012G |s2cid=125775 }}</ref> He coined the terms "[[infoveillance]]" and "[[infodemiology]]" for these kinds of approaches.<ref>{{Cite journal |
|bibcode=2009Natur.457.1012G |s2cid=125775 |doi-access=free}}</ref> He coined the terms "[[infoveillance]]" and "[[infodemiology]]" for these kinds of approaches.<ref>{{Cite journal |
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| title = Infodemiology and infoveillance tracking online health information and cyberbehavior for public health |
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| title = Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet |
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* Eysenbach is initiator of [[WebCite]], an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60|title=Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages|year=2005|last1=Eysenbach|first1=Gunther|last2=Trudel|first2=Mathieu|journal=Journal of Medical Internet Research|volume=7|issue=5|pages=e60|pmid=16403724|pmc=1550686}}</ref> |
* Eysenbach is initiator of [[WebCite]], an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60|title=Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages|year=2005|last1=Eysenbach|first1=Gunther|last2=Trudel|first2=Mathieu|journal=Journal of Medical Internet Research|volume=7|issue=5|pages=e60|pmid=16403724|pmc=1550686 |doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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* Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded |
* Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform <ref>{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Jenny |title=U of T student-entrepreneur cuts through scholarly information overload with TrendMD |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-student-entrepreneur-cuts-through-scholarly-information-overload-trend-md |website=University of Toronto }}</ref> |
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* 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 <ref>{{cite web |title=JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List |url=https://www.jmir.org/announcements/194 |publisher=JMIR Publications}}</ref> |
* 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 <ref>{{cite web |title=JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List |url=https://www.jmir.org/announcements/194 |publisher=JMIR Publications}}</ref> |
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* He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association ([[OASPA]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Founding Members |url=https://oaspa.org/about/founding-members/ |publisher=OASPA |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref> |
* He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association ([[OASPA]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Founding Members |url=https://oaspa.org/about/founding-members/ |publisher=OASPA |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref> |
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==Books written or edited== |
==Books written or edited== |
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* {{cite book |title=Consumer Health Informatics | |
* {{cite book |title=Consumer Health Informatics |editor=Lewis, D |editor2=Eysenbach, G |editor3=Kukafka, R |editor4=Jimison, H |editor5=Stavri, Z |year=2005 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |location=[[New York City|New York]] |isbn=978-0-387-23991-0 |oclc=60413694 }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor | |
* {{cite book |title=Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor |editor=Eysenbach, G. |year=1998 |publisher=Thieme |location=[[Stuttgart]]-[[New York City|New York]] |isbn=978-3-13-115221-3 |oclc= 41647056 }} |
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* {{cite book |editor=Eysenbach G |editor2=Lamers W |title=Praxis und Computer. |language=de |location=Düsseldorf |publisher=Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges |year=1999 }} |
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* {{cite book |last=Eysenbach |first=G |title=Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler |year=1994 |publisher=Urban & Schwarzenberg |location=[[Munich]]-[[Baltimore]] |language=de |isbn=978-3-541-11841-0 |oclc=30558735}} |
* {{cite book |last=Eysenbach |first=G |title=Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler |year=1994 |publisher=Urban & Schwarzenberg |location=[[Munich]]-[[Baltimore]] |language=de |isbn=978-3-541-11841-0 |oclc=30558735}} |
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Gunther Eysenbach is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.
Career
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach
References
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ^ "Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw". Canhealth.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. 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
[edit]- Official website (via the Internet Archive)
- Faculty page at the University of Toronto (via the Internet Archive)
- Profile on Google Scholar
- 1967 births
- 20th-century Canadian scientists
- 20th-century German scientists
- 21st-century Canadian scientists
- Canadian medical researchers
- German emigrants to Canada
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni
- Health informaticians
- Academic staff of Heidelberg University
- Living people
- Scientists from Berlin
- Scientists from Toronto
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto