Recent Talks

For selected talks I am now making the slides available. All material is (c) G. Eysenbach - unauthorized used of the material presented here in presentation or publications is strictly prohibited. Please consult the author if you wish to reproduce or cite some of the information presented here..

2002

• 12 Sept 2002. Chair, Workshop "Towards a collaborative, open, semantic web of trust for health information on the web: Interoperability of Health Information Gateways", 9-18 h, Brussels/Belgium, Commission of the European Communities, Avenue de Beaulieu 33, Brussels
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• 2 Oct 2002, Invited Keynote Panelist:  International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, General Assembly, Berlin “Information/ Communication to Patients and Professionals”
  [PDF of programme]  [Presentation Slides] [Audio of the session - to hear the Eysenbach presentation go to minute 49' mpeg3 41 MB]
   

•  24 Oct 2002. Invited Speaker, Mini-Med School, University of Toronto. “Virtual Medicine: eHealth and You”
  [PDF of programme] [Presentation Slides]

•  28-29 Oct 2002 Invited Keynote speaker: Telehealth and Educational Technology Resource Agency (TETRA), 26th Anniversary Round Table. Topic: ehealth innovation in patient services and health education. St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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• 18 Nov 2002. Invited Speaker: Ontario Hospital Association Annual Convention / Change Foundation. Invited Panelist, "Leading the Management of Change - Consumerism and Health Care: E-Health Initiatives for Consumer Empowerment". Crowne Plaza Hotel - Ontario Room, Toronto/Canada, 13-14:45 h [PDF of programme]  [Presentation Slides] [Slides with notes as pdf]

• 12 Dec 2002. European Union IST Diffuse Final Conference hosted by the European Commission. European Commission Conference Centre Borschette in Brussels; "Convergence of Web Services, Grid Services and the Semantic Web for delivering e-Services?". Title of the talk: “Towards a collaborative, open, semantic web of trust for quality health information on the Internet" http://www.diffuse.org/event3.html  [Presentation Slides]

2003

• 1 Feb 2003. Medhunters.com career conference "The Canadian healthcare professional in the 21st century.", Invited talk: “Dealing with Web-Informed Patients”, Toronto, Canada, The Colony Hotel, 11-12am, Ballroom. [Presentation Slides]

• 19 June 2003. Opening Keynote, Conference "First International Conference on Cancer on the Internet", New York [Presentation Slides]

• G. Eysenbach, J. Till. Panel leader “eHealth – Past, current, and future research”. Association of Internet Researchers, Internet Research 4.0 Conference “Broadening the band”, Toronto, Oct 2003.[Presentation as pdf]

• Eysenbach G, Köhler C. What is the Prevalence of Health-related Searches on the World Wide Web? Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Search Engine Queries on the Internet. AMIA Annu Fall Symp, Washington DC, 11. Nov 2003[Presentation as pdf]

• 19 Nov 2003 12-2pm Invited Keynote "Health and the Internet: Junk, jewels, and true opportunities". IT in Healthcare Distinguished Lecture Series, Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation. Health Sciences Building, Room 2005 Guindon Hall, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa/Canada [Presentation as pdf]
• 21 Nov 2003. 3rd Canadian Cochrane Symposium, Consumer Workshop “Quality Health Information”, Presentation “Quality of Health Information on the Internet”, 11:30-12pm, Sheraton Hotel, Hamilton, Canada [Presentation as pdf]

• 24 Nov 2003. Slideshow about the Collaboration of Internet Rating, Certification, Labelleing and Evaluation of Health Information (MedCIRCLE), with focus on the MedCIRCLE Infobar (presented at the Canadian Health Network Advisory Board Meeting, Ottawa) [Slides as downloadable ppt][Presentation as pdf]

2006

• 14 Nov 2006. Presentation at AMIA Annual Fall Conference on "Infodemiology" (This paper won the Distinguished Paper Award). [Slides]. Please cite the paper as: Eysenbach G. Infodemiology: Tracking Flu-Related Searches on the Web for Syndromic Surveillance. Proc AMIA Symp 2006; 244-248 http://www.webcitation.org/5LIlQNbDQ