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Gunther Eysenbach is a researcher on Open access publishing, health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics. ==Career== Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967 in Berlin, 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.〔Web site of the European Medical Students' Association. See 〕 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. In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada and since then has been Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw )〕 at the University Health Network (Toronto, Canada), and Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Eysenbach is a founding scholar of the field of consumer health informatics. He has written a large number of influential books and articles, and continues to support research in this area through organizing conferences and through his editorship of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. From 2000-2008, served as Working Group Chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association.〔()〕 Other contributions of Eysenbach include: * Eysenbach is initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 conference Medicine 2.0 Congress〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=medicine20congress.com )〕 * At the end of the 90s, Eysenbach with a number of European partners initiated and led two major EU projects, MedCertain and MedCircle, to develop conceptual prototypes of "trustmarks" or "transparency marks" for health-related information on the Internet. Rather than developing their own methodologies from scratch, the projects pragmatically built on emerging web approaches during these days which some years later became mainstream thinking. * Eysenbach has conducted pioneering studies on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence as early as in 2006, which have been confirmed by other research groups 2–3 years later. Eysenbach coined the terms "infoveillance" and "infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches. * Eysenbach is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, started in 1999 as a peer-reviewed open access journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field. using Internet and Intranet-related technologies. In 2002, it was selected as the official journal of the Internet Healthcare Coalition, and in 2003, as the official journal of the Society for Internet in Medicine. The journal became the leading journal in health informatics with an impact factor of 4.7 (2010). Eysenbach is also one of the cofounders of OASPA. * Eysenbach is founder of JMIR Publications, an academic publisher with a focus on technology in health * Eysenbach is initiator of WebCite, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages. * Eysenbach is, with Paul Kudlow, cofounder of (TrendMD ), an dissemination network for scholarly articles across different publishers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gunther Eysenbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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