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Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH, a graduate from the medical school in Freiburg/Germany, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston/USA, is currently Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the Toronto Research Institute/Toronto General Hospital and Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research, and holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
He founded and headed a research group on cybermedicine and eHealth at the University of Heidelberg between 1999 and 2001, where is main research interest was consumer health informatics, and came to Canada in March 2002 to join Alex Jadad in building up the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto.
He is author of a German textbook for computers in medicine (which he wrote at the age of 24), editor of a loose-leaf book on computers for physicians, founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Dr. Eysenbach has authored more than 120 publications, including more than 30 book-chapters as well as several pioneer studies and comments on cybermedicine, e-health and Consumer health informatics, published in respected international journals such as JAMA, BMJ, Lancet.
