Gunther Eysenbach

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Gunther Eysenbach
Eysenbach in 2009
Born	(1967-03-22) 22 March 1967 (age 57) West Berlin, West Germany
Known for	EHealth, Consumer health informatics infodemiology open access,JMIR Publications,Journal of Medical Internet Research
Awards	Public Knowledge Project Community Contribution Award Ferguson Distinguished Achievement Awards
Scientific career
Fields	Healthcare, Scholarly Publishing
Institutions	University of Heidelberg University of Toronto University Health Network Digital Health and Science Ventures JMIR Publications University of Victoria

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]

External links[edit]

• Official website (via the Internet Archive)
• Faculty page at the University of Toronto (via the Internet Archive)
• Profile on Google Scholar