Gunther Eysenbach
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Gunther Eysenbach is a German-Canadian researcher on
Career
Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967[
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. OCLC 60413694.
- Eysenbach, G., ed. (1998). Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor. 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). 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.
- 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.
- PMID 17238340.
- PMID 18954267.
- S2CID 125775.
- PMID 21521589.
- PMID 19329408.
- 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