Gunther Eysenbach Explained
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 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 and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine.[2] In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation[3] at the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
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
- Book: Consumer Health Informatics . Lewis, D . Eysenbach, G . Kukafka, R . Jimison, H . Stavri, Z . 2005 . . . 978-0-387-23991-0 . 60413694 .
- Book: Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor . Eysenbach, G. . 1998 . Thieme . . 978-3-13-115221-3 . 41647056 .
- Book: Eysenbach G . Lamers W . Praxis und Computer. . de . Düsseldorf . Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges . 1999 .
- Book: Eysenbach, G . Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler . 1994 . Urban & Schwarzenberg . . de . 978-3-541-11841-0 . 30558735.
See also
- WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach
External links
Notes and References
- Web site of the European Medical Students' Association. See Web site: EMSA & IFMSA . https://web.archive.org/web/20060503073626/http://emsa.emsa-europe.net/modules/content/index.php?id=38 . May 3, 2006 . March 15, 2020.
- World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet . . 1999-08-27 . 2008-04-21 . 2012-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120205023206/http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/press/news/press9.htm . dead .
- Web site: Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw . Canhealth.com . 2013-08-18 . 2016-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160324052843/http://www.canhealth.com/may02.html#anchor16193 . dead .
- Web site: IMIA Working Groups. February 19, 2016 . 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 . July 6, 2010 .
- Web site: medicine20congress.com . medicine20congress.com . 2013-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080828040203/http://www.medicine20congress.com/ . 2008-08-28 .
- Gunther Eysenbach . Infodemiology: tracking flu-related searches on the web for syndromic surveillance . AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings . 244–248 . 2006 . 2006 . 17238340 . 1839505.
- Philip M. Polgreen . Yiling Chen. Yiling Chen . David M. Pennock . Forrest D. Nelson . Using internet searches for influenza surveillance . . 47 . 11 . 1443–1448 . December 2008 . 10.1086/593098 . 18954267. free .
- Jeremy Ginsberg . Matthew H. Mohebbi . Rajan S. Patel . Lynnette Brammer . Mark S. Smolinski . Larry Brilliant . Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data . . 457 . 7232 . 1012–1014 . February 2009 . 10.1038/nature07634 . 19020500. 2009Natur.457.1012G . 125775 . free.
- Gunther Eysenbach . Infodemiology and infoveillance tracking online health information and cyberbehavior for public health . . 40 . 5 Suppl 2 . S154–S158 . May 2011 . 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.006 . 21521589. free .
- Gunther Eysenbach . Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet . . 11 . 1 . e11 . 2009 . 10.2196/jmir.1157 . 19329408 . 2762766. free .
- 10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60. Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages. 2005. Eysenbach. Gunther. Trudel. Mathieu. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 7. 5. e60. 16403724. 1550686 . free .
- Web site: Hall . Jenny . U of T student-entrepreneur cuts through scholarly information overload with TrendMD . University of Toronto .
- Web site: JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List . JMIR Publications.
- Web site: Founding Members . OASPA . 29 July 2021.