Gunther Eysenbach

Gunther Eysenbach
Eysenbach in 2009
Born	(1967-03-22) 22 March 1967 (age 58) West Berlin, West Germany
Known for	eHealth, health informatics infodemiology
Awards	Public Knowledge Project Community Contribution Award Ferguson Distinguished Achievement Awards
Scientific career
Fields	Healthcare
Institutions	University of Heidelberg University of Toronto University Health Network University of Victoria

Gunther Eysenbach (born 1967) is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.

Career

While a medical student, Eysenbach was 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 ^[2] and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine. ^[3] In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada ^[4] and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation ^[5] 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 was working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association. ^[6]

Other contributions include:

• Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 Congress ^[7]
• Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence, ^[8] which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later. ^{[9] [10]} He coined the terms "infoveillance" and "infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches. ^{[11] [12]}
• Eysenbach is initiator of WebCite, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages. ^[13]
• Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform ^[14]
• He is founder and CEO of 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 one of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Business Insider ^[15]
• He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) ^[16]

Bibliography

• 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. "EMSA & IFMSA". Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
2. "Open Access Week 2013: Presenter Bios | University of Toronto Libraries". onesearch.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
3. "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.
4. "Open Access Week 2013: Presenter Bios | University of Toronto Libraries". onesearch.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
5. "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.
6. "IMIA Working Groups". Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
7. "medicine20congress.com". medicine20congress.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Hall, Jenny. "U of T student-entrepreneur cuts through scholarly information overload with TrendMD". University of Toronto.
15. "JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List". JMIR Publications.
16. "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